Shelley Reed, a recipient of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' Maud Morgan Award and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Sears-Peyton gallery in New York opening May 6. Her work is also slated for a group show opening June 3 at Danese Gallery, curated by April Gornik. This show includes work by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and Julie Heffernan … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2010
Fellows Notes – May
We compile a monthly list of presentations, honors, publications, and events featuring past and present MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. As you'll see, the news is good - not just about these award-winning artists, but also about the breadth and vitality of contemporary arts throughout the Commonwealth. Jane D. Marsching (Photography Finalist '03) and Joshua Meyer … [Read more...]
Poetry Month: Patrick Donnelly and Ben Berman
It's April 30, the last day of Poetry Month. Or is it the first day in the rest of your POETRY LIFE? (Just agree it's the second one; it'll make me happy.) We thought we'd cap our celebrations by sharing poems by two outstanding past Poetry Fellows: Patrick Donnelly's Oxygen Catastrophe and Ben Berman's Endings. Patrick is a Deerfield poet with one published collection, … [Read more...]
Poetry Month: Pastoral by Kristin Bock
When we commemorate Poetry Month with poems by Massachusetts-honored artists, we're really commemorating all art forms. By artists everywhere. With poems. My proof? Well, I don't really have proof - can such a statement be proved? - but what I have, as Exhibit A, is Kristin Bock (Poetry Fellow '06), who said in an ArtSake interview that the origins of her poetry could be … [Read more...]
Reading through Artist Opportunites
Printmakers National Juried Monotype/Monoprint Exhibition, Monotype Guild of New England, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA. September 26, 2010 – January 2, 2011. Juror: Joann Moser, Senior Curator of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum. $1,000 First Prize, Additional Cash Prizes. Go here for a prospectus. For more information contact Alice Merlone. Deadline: June … [Read more...]