Of Note: Staying Authentic While Marketing Your Work, July 14, 2021, 6-8pm. Best suited for visual and media artists. Open and free to artists across Massachusetts. Hosted by Assets for Artists in partnership with Mass Cultural Council. Learn more and register. Artist Grant Workshop The Basics of Building a Grant (Part 2), July 15, 2021, 2-4pm. Yara Liceaga Rojas will cover … [Read more...]
Artist Opportunities Has the Blues
New! Mass Cultural Council has partnered with MASS MoCA's Assets for Artists program to present a series of free webinars and workshops for artists, Spring and Summer 2021. Learn more and register. Webinars with Arts Administrators Arts Administration Association New England is holding a series of "Sip and Chat" webinars with arts administrators from the region. The next … [Read more...]
Announcing the 2021 Artist Fellowships Grant Cycle
Mass Cultural Council believes that the work of individual artists is essential to a thriving society. We are excited to announce the launch of the 2021 grant cycle of the Artist Fellowships to support Massachusetts artists and the excellence of their creative work. The Artist Fellowships are unrestricted, anonymously-judged awards, with grant decisions based solely on the … [Read more...]
Curators, Editors, and Presenters: Our Advice for Artists
Periodically, we pose questions about issues artists face in their work and lives. This month, we're posing a question to a group of curators, editors, and presenters that we first posed in 2017: If you could convince artists to change ONE thing about the way they approach you/your organization for opportunities, what would it be? Aynel David Guerra, Curator, Director of … [Read more...]
Pushing Boundaries: Using Needlework to Express What it Means to be Human
Jodi Colella, of Somerville, is an artist, teacher and community builder. She uses needlework to infuse renewed power to craft practices. The resulting works convey both whimsy and threat, as they capture that place where anxiety and beauty can co-mingle. She pushes the boundaries of traditional techniques to create works that imply an inner vitality and a self-awareness of … [Read more...]