Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2015 MCC Artist Fellowship awards in Film & Video, Music Composition, and Photography. Nineteen artists will receive fellowships of $10,000, and 15 artists and one collaborative duo will receive $1000 finalist awards. See a full list of this year's fellows and finalists. The awards are anonymously judged, based solely on … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2015
Artist Opportunities Under the Microscope
Short Story Glimmer Train Press is now accepting entries for their Short Story Award for New Writers. The prize of $1,500 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories is given quarterly for a short story by a writer whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000. Learn more. Deadline: May 31, 2015 Poetry Entries are now being accepted for … [Read more...]
Artists Opportunities Play On
Visual Artists Grant The Visual Arts Program of Sea Grant Rhode Island was established in 1988 to encourage professional visual artists from New York and New England to address the issues of the environment of the ocean and its coastal communities. Grants are intended to assist individual and collaborating artists whose works are related to themes of the marine environment. … [Read more...]
Artist Opportunities Set List
Play it loud and fast! Filmmakers The Bluestocking Film Series (Spring, 2015, Portland, ME) is seeking short films (30 minutes or shorter) that pass the Bechdel Test for Women in Movies (film must include 2 or more female characters with names who talk to each other about something other than a man). Learn more. Deadline: May 22, 2015 (extended, via withoutabox.com) Call … [Read more...]
Discussion Series for Artists/Parents
How to be an artist and a parent? Greg Cook and Tim Devin (artists and parents, both) are gathering voices to discuss this very question. Two upcoming events geared towards creative folks (artists/musicians/you-name-it) who have kids will focus on the unique challenges of having children and an artistic career, and trying to make it all work. The first event (free and … [Read more...]