They're ripe for picking! Chamber Music America Residency Partnership Program Chamber Music America, the national network of ensemble music professionals, offers support to U.S.-based classical/contemporary ensembles, presenters and festivals for commissioning American composers to create new chamber works performed by classical, contemporary, early music, jazz and world … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2015
Why Fund Artists? Part 3
Massachusetts has been funding artists for 40 years, and to help illuminate why, we're asking past Artist Fellowships awardees to tell us what happened after they were honored with a state award. This is the third gallery exploring the history of the Artist Fellowships Program. See the first and second. And if you're a past awardee, visit our Alumni Book to tell your … [Read more...]
Artist Opportunities Prize Winners
We grow 'em tasty at ArtSake! Poet Travel Scholarship The Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship is an award of approximately $54,000 is given annually to a U.S. poet for a year of travel and study abroad. Submit two copies of either up to 40 pages of poetry or a published book and up to 20 pages of poetry. Learn more. Deadline: October 15, 2015 Conference Scholarships … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Oct 15
Wouldn't it make more sense if they named the eighth month of the year, rather than the tenth month, October? I just thought of that... (Actually I just checked Wikipedia, and it turns out October was the "eighth month in the old Roman calendar." They just kept calling it that after it became the tenth month, like how we all still "dial" a phone number even though dials are … [Read more...]
Carl Phillips: Poetry of the Irreconcilable
In 1990, Carl Phillips was a high school Latin teacher in Falmouth when he had a chance encounter with a Massachusetts poet. That experience led him to apply for a state fellowship in poetry - and onto an extraordinary career exploring the irreconcilable forces of need and desire. Carl Phillips' thirteenth collection of poetry, Reconnaissance, was just published by … [Read more...]