With the COVID-19 pandemic's devastating effect on practicing artists, Assets for Artists has redesigned its free business and financial education programming to provide artists with more distance-learning opportunities that focus on pandemic recovery and largely retain the intimate cohort-focused … [Read More...]
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I Voted Artist Opportunities
Vote! Your voice matters! Webinars with Arts Administrators Arts Administration Association New England is holding a series of "Sip and Chat" webinars with arts administrators from the region. The next discussion is October 29, 2020, 4 PM, … [Read More...]
Faces & Voices: A Traveling, Public Art Exhibition
ArtSpace Maynard presents Faces & Voices: A Traveling, Public Art Exhibition, by artists George Herman (1998 Mass Cultural Council Painting Finalist) & Amanda Loebelenz. Faces & Voices art-mobile exhibition is embarking on its … [Read More...]
Studio Views: Wilhelm Neusser
Wilhelm Neusser (Painting Finalist '20) invites us into his studio to share the creative yield from the "lost" spring and summer of COVID: paintings from his new solo exhibition. In my most recent body of work, a thicket of forsythia or a chain … [Read More...]
Stitched Together Artist Opportunities
Action Alert: The Mass Cultural Council wants to know how COVID-19 has impacted you economically. This new survey effort will directly inform continued advocacy efforts on behalf of the cultural sector for public COVID-19 relief and mitigation … [Read More...]
COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists
Hi everyone. The Mass Cultural Council wants to know how COVID-19 has impacted you economically. We launched a survey this past spring and now need to update our economic data which is shared broadly throughout Massachusetts. This new survey effort … [Read More...]
Artist Opportunities Headlines
Election day is November 3, 2020. Please register to vote! You have until October 24th to register. Go here to learn how to register. Webinars with Arts Administrators Arts Administration Association New England is holding a series of "Sip and … [Read More...]
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From the Archives
Studio Views: Richard Limber
Richard Limber, a multi-disciplinary artist living and working on Martha's Vineyard, shares how an unconventional creative practice leads to his probing body of work. Creativity has no categories Have you ever … [Read More...]
Artists’ Advice for Gatekeepers
Periodically, we pose questions about issues artists face in their work and lives. A while back, we asked curators, editors, and presenters (aka artistic gatekeepers) for one piece of advice they'd give to artists. … [Read More...]
What Role Does Research Play in Your Art?
Periodically, we pose a question to artists about an issue they face in their work and lives. Historical, archival, and other research can be crucial to artists, but how and why can vary widely depending on the … [Read More...]
Sachiko Akiyama: Forces of Nature
Mass Cultural Council and the New Art Center (NAC) presented Mass Cultural Council Awardees in Crafts and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres, September 18-October 17, 2015, at the NAC. Here, Sachiko Akiyama, one of the … [Read More...]
Artists as Presenters
The platforms and technology make it feasible, and even, in the right circumstances, advantageous: artists bypassing traditional gatekeepers and presenting work themselves. In some cases, an artist may decide that … [Read More...]