Call to Artists The Guild of Boston Artists is currently accepting entries for their 2025 New England Regional Juried Exhibition (August 30 - September 27). The New England Regional Juried Exhibition is a juried show featuring representational painting, drawing, and sculpture by regional artists who work in the realist tradition. Learn more. Deadline: July 19, … [Read more...]
Staging Artist Opportunities
Workshop for Pittsfield Area Artists Assets for Artists is offering a workshop for Pittsfield area artists Making a Plan in a Time of Uncertainty with Laura Baring-Gould on Saturday, June 15, 2024 (in person) at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 28 Renne Ave, Pittsfield, MA, and on Thursday, June 20, 2024 from 6:00PM - 8:00PM (in Zoom). This is 2-part series (4 hours in … [Read more...]
Learning to Be Auntie’s Baby
Artists Simone John (Poetry Fellow '20) (aka Simone Ivory) and flowerthief (one half of the music duo Optic Bloom) collaborated to create the audio poetry project, Auntie's Baby. Auntie's Baby draws on the artists' multidisciplinary background, using family phone calls, poetry, music, and sound to "open a portal into Black storytelling." Recently, Simone and flowerthief … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Literary Artists Receive Prestigious Honors
We are pleased to congratulate two Massachusetts-based literary artists who were recently recognized with prestigious honors. Martín Espada and Yara Liceaga-Rojas are among the inaugural recipients of the Letras Boricuas Fellowship. The first-of-its-kind fellowship was developed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation's Arts Fund to support 20 … [Read more...]
Sara Hendren: Who Is the World Designed For?
This summer marked the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a turning point in the history of disability rights. During her years of writing, art, design, and research, Sara Hendren (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '18) has found the field of disability studies a rich and deep world to explore. "And in the course of all of those years of both writing … [Read more...]