On the eve of the big storm, a blizzard of good news: Feb's notes and honors from MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. Recent MCC awardee Caitlin O'Neil reviews George Rosen's short story collection The Immanence of God in the Tropics for Ploughshares: "he writes with such stark, unadorned clarity that distant places snap into focus." Sophia Ainslie has a solo show, in … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Jan 13
Woo hoo! It's a new year, meaning a new start, a blank canvas, and twelve new chances to share the news/notes of past MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. Here's January '13. Carrie Bennett and Cheryl Clark Vermeulen both have poetry in the new issue of Caketrain. Sandy Litchfield and Sage Sohier both have solo shows opening at Carroll and Sons Gallery (1/4-2/16, … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Sept 12
It's a back to school edition of Fellows Notes. Curriculum includes Emily Dickinson, Boston history, woodshop, and other recent works (and news) from past MCC Fellows and Finalists... Sophia Ainslie and Mary Bucci McCoy are included in the exhibition XXX: Kingston Gallery Annual Members' Exhibition, celebrating thirty years as an artist run gallery (9/5-9/30, opening … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Aug 12
Our monthly news from MCC Fellows/Finalists, like a cool, invigorating breeze to part the humid August haze... Laura Chasman, Andrea Sherrill Evans, Caleb Neelon, and August Ventimiglia are all featured in Time Flies: Two Years at Drive-By in Watertown, through August 25, 2012. Elizabeth Alexander's Still Life: a fabricator's banquet will be installed at The Cape Ann … [Read more...]
What Makes an Arts Community Thrive?
Community can be a place, a group, an environment, a conversation. In the arts, community means all that and something more. We recently asked artists in different disciplines: What makes an arts community thrive? Lara JK Wilson, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow, Board member and Instructor at Grub Street Writers, Inc. What makes a thriving writers' community? The short … [Read more...]