Artists' careers can take many trajectories. In our conversations with working artists, we've asked: Can you point to any one decision you've made as an artist that has had the most impact on your career? Joan Leegant, writer Probably the smartest thing I did was to enroll in a master's program in writing, a low-residency MFA at Vermont College, now the Vermont College of … [Read more...]
How Do You Balance Art with Other Aspects of Your Life?
An artist's creative practice shares time and energy with family, financial, and other necessities of life. In our conversations with working artists, we've asked: How do you balance the unconventional challenges of an artist's work with other aspects of your life? Huckleberry Delsignore, crochet artist My daughters are ages 3, 5 and 7. Balancing life as a single mother is … [Read more...]
Joan Leegant talks Wherever You Go
Fiction writer Joan Leegant's work has won her, among other honors, a Winship/PEN New England Book Award and a 2000 MCC fellowship, and opportunities including a guest lectureship at the U.S. State Department in Israel. Her new novel Wherever You Go is about to be published by W.W. Norton & Co; we advise, if at all possible, that you hear her read from the book at a local … [Read more...]