News about our past fellows and finalists just keeps materializing, like florescent jellyfish in seawater (and didn't florescent jellyfish just win somebody a Nobel Prize? So there's gotta be some good karma in those critters.) Here are a few of the recent updates to the October Fellows Notes: Director Juan Mandelbaum (Film & Video Finalist '07) has five screenings of … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2008
Artist Fellows, National Book Award finalists
Raucously loud and exuberant congratulations to Salvatore Scibona (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '06) and Joan Wickersham (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '08). Both were just named finalists for this year's National Book Award! The Critical Mass blog has the breaking news. Salvatore is a finalist in the National Book Award for Fiction; along with being an MCC Artist … [Read more...]
A Little Imagination Goes A Long Way
Using little more than some plastic bags and tape, street artist Joshua Allen Harris has created an amazing array of inflatable animal sculptures. … [Read more...]
Dances and dialogues: a roundup
Make your voices typed There's a great discussion underway in the comments section of our post about Martha Mason and the end of Snappy Dance Theater, ranging from tributes to Snappy to the future of Boston's dance scene to the virtues of dance as an art form. Check it out and join in. Leslie K. Brown invites you to guess that photographic image. Mirror up to Nature … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Poetry Festival this weekend
Are you what they call a "words" fan? Are you partial to those intriguing individuals who search with, electrify, and otherwise poeticize words? Then why - for the love of arts funding WHY? - haven't you made plans to take part in this weekend's Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Lowell? (If you HAVE, then please disregard. Well, regard, but then turn to the person next to you, … [Read more...]