Today is National Voter Registration Day. Register to vote. Of Note: Crafts, Dramatic Writing, Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellowships. The 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Program deadline is approaching. The Artist Fellowships are grants for individual artists in recognition of artistic excellence. Fellowship awards are currently $12,000. … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Historic Artist Opportunities
Of Note: The National Museum of African American History & Culture has opened in Washington DC. Poets Entries are now being accepted for the New Criterion's Poetry Prize of $3,000 and publication by St. Augustine's Press. The prize is given annually for a poetry collection that pays close attention to form. Erica Dawson, Roger Kimball, and David Yezzi will judge. Submit … [Read more...]
Linda Etcoff: Drawing the Essential
Mass Cultural Council and the New Art Center (NAC) will present the 2016 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellows in Painting, Choreography, Drawing & Printmaking, and Traditional Arts on September 16-October 15, 2016, at the NAC. Linda Etcoff, one of the award-winning artists in the exhibit displays her fecund imagination using charcoal, pastel and … [Read more...]
New Artist Opportunities in Boston and Beyond
We've been excited to see a number of new funding and support opportunities for Boston/New England artists announced recently. Here's a brief rundown. New England Dance Fund The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) announced its New England Dance Fund, which awards "small, catalytic grants directly to choreographers who identify and articulate a critical … [Read more...]
Charlotte Meehan: Cleanliness, Godliness, and Madness
Charlotte Meehan, Artistic Director of Sleeping Weazel and a past contributor to ArtSake, premiered the new play Cleanliness, Godliness, and Madness: a User's Guide at the Boston Center for the Arts in September 2016, in the run-up to the November presidential election. Here, she shares how her personal background and the country's "mad time" have shaped her new work for the … [Read more...]