No foolin'! Here's the April news & notes from past MCC fellows/finalists. Three MCC awardees are showing films in the 2014 Boston Cinema Census at the Brattle Theatre (4/10, 8 PM): Kimberly Forero-Arnias (Hay Algo Y Se Va), Cristina Kotz Cornejo (Buena Fe), and Robert Todd (LOVESONG). Elizabeth Alexander has a solo show, Mary Mary, at Jane Deering Gallery in … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Jan 14
A new year of news/notes from past MCC Fellows and Finalists. Deborah Abel and The Deborah Abel Dance Company will present Calling to You, an evening of modern dance that premiered in Boston in 2012. After a 3 city tour of India last December, the company is returning to perform at the Tsai Performance Center (1/25 at 7:30 PM & 1/26 at 3 PM) with an ensemble of 11 … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Dec 13
Put your seasonal worries aside and read this news from past MCC Fellows/Finalists. It's flavored with a hint of nutmeg!* Julie Levesque and Joshua Meyer are both being exhibited by Rice Polak Gallery as part of Aqua Art Miami (12/4-12/8). Laura Andel (who won an MCC Artist Fellowship in 1999), is a 2013 fellow in Music/Sound from the New York Foundation for the Arts. … [Read more...]
Work You’ve Set Aside
Art-making is all about starts, stops, and unanticipated turns. When a work goes unfinished, it may be to make room for another project... or it may just be time to move on. We asked artists: If you've ever had to set aside a work of art that still had potential, why did you do so? And will you ever return to it? Part one of a two-part discussion. Amy Dryansky, poet When … [Read more...]
Video Tour of Pedigree
A ceramic deer-hoof chandelier, a devolved dining room set, a curio of mutated porcelain figurines; with Pedigree, now on exhibit at the New Art Center in Newton (through October 14, 2013), curator Elizabeth Devlin of FLUX.Boston has assembled an art experience somewhere between a Victorian salon and a mad scientist's laboratory. The curator was kind enough to take ArtSake … [Read more...]