As an artist, where you intend to go at the outset of a new work isn't always where you end up. You may start with an idea but in realizing it be led into surprising, even bewildering territory. We asked artists in different disciplines: "What's the most unexpected journey your art has taken?" Marguerite White, drawing and mixed media artist In 2006 I was commissioned to … [Read more...]
Cur8or: Leah Hennessy
Musician Leah Hennessy is curating a new collaborative art and music series at the Lilypad in Cambridge, MA. The series In Response pairs local emerging artists and musicians by sharing their existing works, notebook sketches and demo recordings with each other. In Response opens on April 21st, with the photography of Kelly Burgess and the music of Americana duo Ari and Mia … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Apr 13
Marathon-month news from past MCC Artist Fellows/Finalists. Go go go! The 2013 Commonwealth Reading Series features free readings by MCC-awarded writers and poets: Newtonville Books (4/2, 7 PM); Gulu-Gulu Café (4/7, 4 PM); American Antiquarian Society (4/9, 7 PM); Forbes Library (4/24, 7 PM); and Cambridge Public Library (4/30, 7 PM). Learn more. Independent Film … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Mar 13
In our March list of news from past MCC Fellows/Finalists, we come in like a (drawn) line, out like an iamb.* Congratulations to Caitlin Berrigan and Kelly Carmody, both recently selected for the Assets for Artists Program. Linda Bond, Jan Johnson, Masako Kamiya, and Lydia Kann Nettler are among the artists in the 2013 Wheaton Biennial Show, Drawing Out of Bounds … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Feb 13
On the eve of the big storm, a blizzard of good news: Feb's notes and honors from MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. Recent MCC awardee Caitlin O'Neil reviews George Rosen's short story collection The Immanence of God in the Tropics for Ploughshares: "he writes with such stark, unadorned clarity that distant places snap into focus." Sophia Ainslie has a solo show, in … [Read more...]