One of the perks of working at a place like the Massachusetts Cultural Council is meeting artists like Henriette Lazaridis Power (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '06), who along with being great practitioners of their craft, also contribute in fascinating ways to the creative community at large. Henriette founded and edits the innovative audio literary journal The Drum, will … [Read more...]
Interviews
The Royal Frog Ballet: an art troupe for interesting times
THE ROYAL FROG BALLET is an amoeba of collaborators, a producing body, a shouting household of households, and an aspiring dance team in search of parade. - from the troupe's website (do you, too, get the feeling its audience is in for an interesting time?) The Royal Frog Ballet is a cross-disciplinary group that blends performance, visual art, music, movement, and a … [Read more...]
Judith Black Opens a Season of Women’s Voices at Salem Theatre Company
Salem Theatre Company is about to launch an intriguing season of theatre on the North Shore: five plays, all by living, working female playwrights. We asked storyteller and playwright Judith Black, whose play Bittersweet Midnight is about to premiere in Salem, and STC Artistic Director John Fogle, to delve into the details of their work as theatre artists. Here, they elaborate … [Read more...]
The Ephemeral Work of Daniel Ranalli
To see a world in a grain of sand... -William Blake, Auguries of Innocence In October, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum will be exhibiting a twenty-year photographic survey of the work of Daniel Ranalli, MCC '10 Drawing Fellow. He has a long standing comittment to the creation of conceptual environmental work encompassing the Outer Cape. This is an … [Read more...]
Allan Reeder on a writer’s education
A life in the arts can lead to some interesting gigs. The career of Allan Reeder first led to MCC through his award-winning fiction (he's won our Artist Fellowship in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction twice - in 2006 and in 2010), but it includes many other forays into the world of writing and publishing. A sampling: he's assisted John Irving with revising his work, edited for The … [Read more...]