When individual artists approach Mass Cultural Council looking for support and opportunities, we point them toward our Artist Fellowships (unrestricted monetary awards in recognition of artistic excellence) and ArtSake (our online resource for artists, which you already know about, since... here you are). But there are other opportunities closer to home. Artists can richly … [Read more...]
From the Archives
How Have Health Issues Impacted Your Art?
Periodically, we pose questions about issues artists face in their work and lives. This month, we asked: How have health issues impacted your art – or vice versa? Judith Klausner, multi-disciplinary artist I think there are a variety of ways in which my experience of chronic migraines has influenced my art. Most explicitly, my recent series of work Coming Out of the … [Read more...]
Studio Views: Brece Honeycutt
We learned that Brece Honeycutt (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist '18) had been selected for two different artist residencies this summer. Here, she shares images and observations about the three studios in which she worked these last few months: her own in Sheffield, her residency at Norte Maar in Jay, NY, and her residency at Naumkeag in Stockbridge, MA. Outside/Inside: … [Read more...]
Julie Mallozzi on Circle Up and Seeing as a Maker
Julie Mallozzi explores cultural intersections and social change through award-winning documentary films. Her latest nonfiction feature, Circle Up, will screen in the GlobeDocs Film Festival on Saturday, October 14, 2017, 12 PM, at Brattle Theatre. We asked Julie about the film's origins, what engages her as an artist and teacher, and what’s next in her intriguing career as … [Read more...]
Julie Wu on The Third Son and the World(s) of Writing
Julie Wu (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '12) is among the writers & poets in Mass Cultural Council's Commonwealth Reading Series, reading at the Forbes Library in Northampton on April 24, 2013, 7 PM. Days later, she'll celebrate the publication of her novel, The Third Son (from the publisher: "a story of yearning and freedom set in occupied Taiwan and in America at … [Read more...]