Summery news from current and past MCC Artist Fellows/Finalists. Congratulations to Ilisa Barbash, Jane Gillooly, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, and Lucia Small, all of whom will receive funding from the LEF Foundation as part of their Spring 2016 Moving Image Fund awards. Carrie Bennett and Frannie Lindsay join Jennifer Barber for a poetry reading at Porter Square Books on … [Read more...]
How Do You Approach the Business of Art?
Periodically, we pose a question to artists about an issue they face in their work and lives. It can be challenging to balance artistic creation with the business, financial, or other career aspects of artists' work. Artists are encouraged to see their art career as a "business" - but how does that translate into practice? We asked artists in different disciplines, What is … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Apr 16
In April: MCC artists venture into books and onto screens, up on stages and out on the airwaves, and just generally do great things in the Commonwealth and beyond. The latest news from our Fellows/Finalists... Elizabeth Alexander and Randal Thurston are exhibiting in Paper and Blade: Modern Paper Cutting at Fuller Craft Museum (thru 7/31). Rick Ashley, Claire Beckett, … [Read more...]
Basia Goszczynska: Reclaimed Wilds
Early in 2015, we were thrilled to work with Basia Goszczynska (Film & Video Fellow '13), who created an animated title sequence for our 40 Years of Fellowships video project. In recognition of the 40th anniversary of fellowships in the Commonwealth, we have been asking artists "what came next," after their state-funded award. We decided to explore the same topic with … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Mar 16
Traveling portraits, poems of the moment, new art shared locally and abroad: here's the March news from current and past MCC Fellows/Finalists. Mass Poetry's Poem of the Moment has recently featured poems by Carrie Bennett (Expedition Notes 34), Sarah Sousa (Epistle), and Rodney Wittwer (& the Sun Is a Fine Buggy of China: Balloons!). Portraits by Laura Chasman … [Read more...]