When artists explore or evoke a period in history through their art, it raises questions about the artist's responsibility. What facts, what details, what people, are fair game for reinvention? What truth - historic or artistic - is of the most importance? (For an interesting take on this, read Hendrik Herzberg's essay on what Stephen Spielberg and his collaborators get wrong … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2013
Artists Opportunities Within Reach
Short Stories A prize of $1,500 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories is given quarterly to a writer whose fiction has not appeared, nor is scheduled to appear, in any print publication with a circulation over 5,000. Learn more Deadline: May 31, 2013 Sports Fiction & Essays Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication on the Winning Writers website are given annually … [Read more...]
Announcing 37 Awards in Film & Video, Music Composition, and Photography
Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2013 Artist Fellowship awards in Film & Video, Music Composition, and Photography. Nineteen artists will receive fellowships of $7500, and 17 artists and one collaborative duo will receive $500 finalist awards. This brings the total number of awards given by the Artist Fellowships Program in 2013 to 68 (in January, Mass … [Read more...]
Eye Spy Artist Opportunities
A rather ramped up on caffeine woody optimist is caught thinking about which artist opportunity to apply to next. Photographers Aaron Siskind Foundation's 2013 Individual Photographer's Fellowship is offering a limited number of fellowship grants for individual artists working in photography and photo-based art. Applicants must be non-students, 21 years of age or older, U.S. … [Read more...]
Real Funny/Sad
Someone once said to me... I had to decide whether my plays are funny, or sad. I politely responded that I'd decided to leave that up to each audience member. - Charlotte Meehan So said Sleeping Weazel Artistic Director Charlotte Meehan in an ArtSake q&a, last year. Well, audiences will get their chance to make up their minds about the funny/sad-ness when Real Realism, … [Read more...]