Phil saw his shadow - six more weeks to enjoy Winter arts in MA. Here's the news from past MCC Fellows/Finalists, for Feb. Visualize data with Reese Inman (Drawing Fellow '08) and Nathalie Miebach (Sculpture/Installation Fellow '09) in Random Access at Montserrat Art Gallery (thru 3/31, artist talk 2/28, 11:30 AM). On the Border Line between crafts and contemporary … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – November 11
November, upon us like a helping of heavily syrupped sweet potatoes, brings with it this bounty of news from our past Fellows/Finalists... Congratulations to Sachiko Akiyama (Sculpture/Installation Fellow '05), Angela Cunningham (Crafts Finalist '11, '09), David Valdes Greenwood (Playwriting Finalist '03), Wendy Jehlen (Choreography Finalist '04), and Robert Todd (Film … [Read more...]
The Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour
Robbie Heidinger and the Hilltown 6. It sounds like a bluegrass band. Or a gang of outlaws. And in fact, the Hilltown 6 is not without a similar, hill-based mystique. The Hilltown 6 is a collection of nationally recognized clay artists who live and work in the hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. Among them is Robbie Heidinger, a ceramic artist who won an MCC Crafts … [Read more...]
Community Supported Art: Growing Local Arts
We're interested in Massachusetts organizations that identify a specific need in the arts, then shape their programming to directly meet it. In essence, they match the right horse with the right course. The Cambridge Center for Adult Education has an intriguing new way to grow local art and artists... The course: visual artists sometimes lack the business training and … [Read more...]
Announcing 39 Awards in Crafts, Film & Video, and Photography
Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2011 Artist Fellowship awards in Crafts, Film & Video, and Photography. Twenty artists will receive fellowships of $7500 and another 19 will receive $500 finalist awards. See a complete list of this year's fellows and finalists. The awards are anonymously judged, based solely on the artistic quality and creative ability of … [Read more...]