Strength of character and defiance toward injustice have long been characteristic to this region. Photographers Entries are now being accepted for the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) 2013 International Juried Competition. This year's jurors are Holly Harrison, L.A. County Museum of Art, and Rex Bruce, L.A. Center for Digital Art. Entrants submit three JPEG files … [Read more...]
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Artist Opportunities in the Lap of Luxury
Sandbox IdeaLaunch’s Arts/Crafts/Consumer Products Pitch Contest is looking for people to pitch ideas for a business that involves arts, crafts, or has a consumer product at its core. Learn more. Deadline: June 7, 2012 Printmakers The NAU Art Museum is currently accepting entries for their 6th Biennial Juried Print Exhibition. The Biennial encourages submissions in … [Read more...]
Mira Bartok Talks The Memory Palace
Years ago, Mira Bartók's work as an artist and writer was threatened when a car accident and subsequent brain injury made even the most basic functions of memory a major struggle. Yet rather than shy away, Mira makes memory a central organizing idea of her memoir about life with a schizophrenic mother; the book is called, in fact, The Memory Palace. Similarly, the accident … [Read more...]
Good Clicks for Artists
We just added a page called the Working Artist's Toolkit. It's an assembly of links to all of the online resources MCC has to offer artists, as well as a collection of some of the posts on ArtSake dealing with specific art-related issues. So, check it out, use what's useful, and get to work. Oftentimes, artists contact us (MCC) looking for funding and career opportunities in … [Read more...]
Three Stages: Dawn Lane
In Three Stages, we ask Massachusetts artists to shed light on their art-making process by focusing on three stages in one work of art. Here, Dawn Lane (Choreography Fellow '10) traces her new dance piece "one potato, two potato" from its inspiration, to its juxtapositions, to the collaborations that have led to its premiere at Jacob's Pillow in Becket, MA, September 2 and … [Read more...]