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January 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

COVID-19 Relief Fund for Individuals The Mass Cultural Council is now accepting applications to the COVID-19 Relief Fund for Individuals. The Fund provides $1,500 grants to people who have lost income derived from their work as individual artists and independent teaching artists/humanists/scientists … [Read More...]

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Anne Lilly (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow '19), image from the public art project TEMPLE OF MNEMON (2018).

What We Mean When We Say Anonymously-Judged

Mass Cultural Council is proud to support individual artists with Artist Fellowships. The fellowships are monetary grants we award to Massachusetts artists based on the excellence of their creative work. We conduct an anonymous review for every … [Read More...]

Artist Opportunities Silhouettes

Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowships The Mass Cultural Council is currently accepting Artist Fellowships applications in Crafts, Dramatic Writing, Film & Video, Music Composition, Photography, and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres. Learn more … [Read More...]

Free Recovery-Focused Financial & Business Webinars

With the COVID-19 pandemic's devastating effect on practicing artists, Assets for Artists has redesigned its business and financial education programming to provide artists with recovery-focused, distance-learning opportunities that largely retain … [Read More...]

Latin Logic Salsa Band performs at a Mass Cultural Council folk arts showcase in 2018. Photo: Matthew Muise.

Apply Now to the COVID-19 Relief Fund for Individuals

Mass Cultural Council is now accepting applications to the COVID-19 Relief Fund for Individuals. The Fund provides $1,500 grants to people who have lost income derived from their work as individual artists and independent teaching … [Read More...]

Show Me the Monet Artist Opportunities

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 January 14, 2021, 4 PM, featuring Jerry Wedge, Executive … [Read More...]

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From the Archives

NUF CED button, from the Boston Public Library collection.

Captioning Your Videos

If you've made a video but haven't added captions, have you really said enough? You've created a video. It could be a work of art itself, or a documentation of another work (a dance or interactive installation, for … [Read More...]

Cover art for WHAT CAN A BODY DO?: HOW WE MEET THE BUILT WORLD by Sara Hendren (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '18), published by Penguin Random House August 2020 (author photo of by Freddie Hendren Funck).

Sara Hendren: Who Is the World Designed For?

This summer marked the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a turning point in the history of disability rights. During her years of writing, art, design, and research, Sara Hendren (Fiction/Creative … [Read More...]

Iconoclast of Dance: Adrienne Hawkins

On our podcast, Creative Minds Out Loud, choreographer and master teacher Adrienne Hawkins discusses the field of dance – how the making of, and support for, the work has changed over time, its persistent challenges, and … [Read More...]

Seldom Discussed Artist Issues

Periodically, we pose questions to artists about issues they face in their work and lives. Whether because they're hard to talk about or because they just fly under the radar, some issues don't get a lot of discussion … [Read More...]

Tips on Applying for an Artist Fellowship

In the Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Program, we instruct our panelists to make their grants decisions based on two criteria*: Artistic quality Creative ability Given that all decisions are based … [Read More...]

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