Find your star power. Call to Artists Applications are now being accepted for the Arts at Haborfest at Christopher Columbus Park in Boston (Saturday July 2nd, 11 am to 5 pm). The event is for local artists to exhibit and sell their artwork underneath the trellis in the park, and for Plein Air painters to paint during the event and have a Wet Paint Sale at the end of the … [Read more...]
Twisting Artist Opportunities
Fiction The Glimmer Train Press is currently accepting entries for their Short Story Award for New Writers. A prize of $2,500 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories is given three times a year for a short story by a writer whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000. Learn more. Deadline: February 29, 2016 Call for Artists Entries … [Read more...]
Renaissance Artist Opportunities
Poets The Snowbound Chapbook Award is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad. Translations are not eligible for this prize, nor are previously self-published books. Employees of Tupelo Press and authors with books previously published by Tupelo Press are not eligible. Poets submitting work for consideration may be published … [Read more...]
Cambodian Master Potter Yary Livan: A Life Shaped by Clay
During the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s, Yary Livan's training in traditional Cambodian ceramics put his life in dire peril. But later, it also saved him - and a centuries-old tradition found new roots in Lowell, Massachusetts. Video features music by past Music Composition Fellow Scott Wheeler Yary Livan's (Traditional Arts Fellow '12) story exemplifies how … [Read more...]
Artist Opportunities Yeehaw
MCC Artist Fellowships Get a move on little buddy and apply for an MCC Artist Fellowship in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Painting. Deadline: January 25, 2016 Call for Art Entries are now being accepted for the Annual Boston Biennial 2016. Learn more. Deadline: February 1, 2016 (12pm EST) Public Art in Salem The City of Salem has issued two calls to … [Read more...]