American composer Lewis Spratlan won an Artist Fellowship the first year the grants were offered, in 1975. He had just begun working on an opera, Life Is a Dream, whose journey spanned five decades, from near-abandonment to the one of the highest honors in American music. Mass Cultural Council is celebrating 40 Years of Fellowships by sharing video interviews with some … [Read more...]
New Art Center Presents Awardees in Crafts and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres
Mass Cultural Council and The New Art Center (NAC) will present the Mass Cultural Council Awardees in Crafts and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres, September 18-October 17, 2015, at the NAC, 61 Washington Park in Newtonville, MA. The exhibition will showcase awardees from Mass Cultural Council's 2015 Artist Fellowships, bringing together works in the Crafts and … [Read more...]
Announcing the 2016 Artist Fellowships Program
We're excited to announce the launch of the 2016 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Program. The Artist Fellowships are unrestricted, anonymously judged, competitive grants for individual artists in recognition of artistic excellence (please note the Traditional Arts category is not anonymously judged and has additional criteria). There are two deadlines per fiscal … [Read more...]
Free Info Sessions on Mass Cultural Council Support for Individual Artists
But we do have a lot of good info. Mass Cultural Council is currently celebrating 40 years of direct funding to individual artists in Massachusetts. We thought this milestone made for a good opportunity to spread the word about the numerous ways MCC and its partner organizations support individual artists. You can learn about grants, services, online platforms, events, … [Read more...]
Why Fund Artists?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has been supporting artists for over 40 years through the Artist Fellowships Program. To help illuminate why, Mass Cultural Council has asked past awardees going all the way back to 1975 to share their personal stories of receiving the state award for artistic excellence. The following gallery compiles of some of those stories, which tell of … [Read more...]