The Sturgis Library has exhibition space available. Please visit their website for exhibits and displays and for an application form. The Sturgis Library is located at 3090 Main Street in Barnstable. For more information call 508-362-8448 or visit www.sturgislibrary.org Utrecht Art Supplies is hosting a 60th Anniversary Contest in honor of six decades of artists patronage … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2009
Digital Ethnography: The Phenomenon of YouTube
Imagine YouTube seen throught the eyes of an anthropologist. Well thanks to our colleague Maggie Holtzberg (the MCC's Folklorist) she turned ArtSake onto the work of Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University working on issues (including methodology) in the digital realm. His hour long presentation The Machine is Us/ing Us was presented last June at the … [Read more...]
Batter up for Artist Opportunities
Get ready to strike at the artist knuckeballs heading your way: First up at bat is an opportunity from the US Mint (as in money, not the plant that makes mint juleps). There will soon be a call out to artists to design money. Be on the lookout for their next upcoming nationwide call for artists. Here batter, batter, here's a call for submissions from Gallery 51 in North … [Read more...]
GLOVEBOX: creating a community for emerging artists
We're interested in Massachusetts arts organizations that have identified a specific need for artists, then created programs to directly meet that need in essence, matched the right horse with the right course. We're calling this type of post - you guessed it - Horses for Courses. Our first subject is the Boston nonprofit GLOVEBOX. We asked Jodie McMenamin, co-founder and … [Read more...]
In Step with Alisia Waller
ArtSake caught up briefly with FY08 Choreography fellow Alisia Waller. She is a member of Mobius, a co-founder of The And So No Sin Performance Troupe, as well as a fight and dance choreographer, physical comedian, dancer, drag performer, stage fighter, video and performance artist and sometime sculptor and comix artist. Well bust my buttons, let's see what else she's been up … [Read more...]