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Carved Artist Opportunities

November 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

Of Note: The Mass Cultural Council offers HireCulture, a free, searchable database of cultural employment opportunities throughout Massachusetts. Be sure to check it out if you're looking for job opportunities or internships. Dancers Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA), which offers direct support to individual artists who have a sustained and intentional practice of … [Read more...]

Black Beauty Dance

July 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

Black Beauty Dance is a virtual workshop series for Black college dancers created and led by Shakia Johnson, who is the Five College Joint Lecturer in African Diasporic Dance. Against the backdrop of the murders of George Floyd and other Black people at the hands of police, Shakia reached out to the piece's Black student cast members to ask how she could support them, and in … [Read more...]

Curators, Editors, and Presenters: Our Advice for Artists

July 15, 2020 1 Comment

Timothy Kadish (Painting Fellow '14), GIRL (2018), oil on canvas, 24x20 in.

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...]

Announcing Awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Painting

June 22, 2020 7 Comments

Daniela Rivera (Painting Fellow '20, '12), installation view of WHERE THE SKY TOUCHES THE EARTH (DONDE DE CIELO LA TIERRA) (2019), oil on canvas, 12x30x30ft

Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2020 Artist Fellowship awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Painting. The awards include 18 fellowships of $15,000, and 16 finalist awards of $1,500. See a list of this year's fellows and finalists, to date. The awards are anonymously judged, based solely on the artistic quality and creative ability of the … [Read more...]

Skimming the Surface for Artist Opportunities

June 9, 2020 Leave a Comment

Register to Vote 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 discussions are June 9, 2020, 4 PM, featuring Nick Adams (Executive Director, Cantata Singers), Madeleine Stekzinsky (Co-founder/Executive Director, ZUMIX), and Jim Wooster (Executive … [Read more...]

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