Linda Sopheap Sou is featured in the latest episode of the Mass Cultural Council's podcast Creative Minds Out Loud. A former executive director of Lowell's Angkor Dance Troupe, she began training with the traditional Cambodian performing arts group at age three (being, as it happens, the daughter of its founder). Check out Creative Minds Out Loud, featuring conversations … [Read more...]
World Premiere of Tracy Heather Strain’s Lorraine Hansberry Documentary
At Mass Cultural Council, we are privileged to encounter a range of exhilarating creative projects. One of the more memorable in the past 10 years is The Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project by Tracy Heather Strain and Randall MacLowry (Film & Video Fellows '07). The project explores the life of playwright/activist Lorraine Hansberry, best known for her 1959 play A Raisin … [Read more...]
New Animation by Aya and Jason Brown
The above animated video was created by recent Mass Cultural Council Film & Video Fellows Aya and Jason Brown, otherwise known as Opertura Animation, in collaboration with Argentinian composer Juana Molina. It's called The Jane Bone Adventures. Needless to say, it's exciting to see Massachusetts artists working on such innovative projects. Find out what other past … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Apr 17
In April, a shower of news from past and present Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship awardees. LEFT ON PEARL Preview/Trailer from Susan Rivo on Vimeo. Natalie Alper, Anne Neely, Jo Ann Rothschild, and Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship are part of the group exhibition Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters from 1950 to Now at the deCordova Museum … [Read more...]
Janice Rogovin Premieres The Man in the Cowboy Hat
More than a decade ago, filmmaker Janice Rogovin embarked on a documentary project about Carlos Arredondo, a grieving man dealing with personal tragedy. Little did she know that his story would someday intertwine with a national tragedy, as he became one of the most recognizable heroes from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. The filmmaker will premiere her film at the Boston … [Read more...]