Before/after you cast your ballot today, elect to read the latest news from MCC's past Fellows/Finalists. David Binder screens his award-winning documentary Calling My Children at Fenway Health Institute (11/8, 6 PM). Matt Brackett: Dark Animal is at Alpha Gallery (thru 11/28). Prilla Smith Brackett's solo show Promises to Keep: Monoprints is at the Bromfield … [Read more...]
Lisa Nilsson at TEDMED
Lisa Nilsson, a North Adams-based artist whose Studio Views is one of ArtSake's most frequently visited web pages, was recently invited to speak about her Tissue Series at TEDMED 2012. Lisa uses a paper-rolling technique called quilling to create exquisitely detailed cross sections of the human body. She spoke about her work at the independently organized TED conference, … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Aug 12
Our monthly news from MCC Fellows/Finalists, like a cool, invigorating breeze to part the humid August haze... Laura Chasman, Andrea Sherrill Evans, Caleb Neelon, and August Ventimiglia are all featured in Time Flies: Two Years at Drive-By in Watertown, through August 25, 2012. Elizabeth Alexander's Still Life: a fabricator's banquet will be installed at The Cape Ann … [Read more...]
Announcing 37 Awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry
Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2012 Artist Fellowship awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry. Twenty artists will receive fellowships of $7500 and another 17 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 … [Read more...]
2012 Guggenheim Fellows from Massachusetts
The 2012 Guggenheim Fellowships have been announced, and we offer hearty congratulations to all Massachusetts artists and scholars who received the prestigious award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. We note in particular past MCC Fellows Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Film & Video '11), Stephen DiRado (Photography '11), and Jane Gillooly (Film & Video … [Read more...]