Here's the latest installment of Fellows Notes, the current news of past fellows/finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. March comes in like a lion with readings, exhibitions, awards, books, world premieres, and more. (I have a feeling that when it comes to artists, March will defy proverb and go out leonine, too.) MCC is honored to have two opportunities to … [Read more...]
Three Stages: Betsy Damian
In Three Stages, we ask Massachusetts artists to shed light on their art-making process by focusing on three stages in one work of art. In 2010, artist and educator Betsy Damian received a Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist award for her children's book Rèv Abnè a: Abner's Vision. Here, she traces its creative path. Inspiration Over the past twelve years, I have had … [Read more...]
Readings by State-awarded Poets and Writers
We are thrilled - THRILLED, I say - to announce the 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, a series of literary events featuring Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellows/Finalists in prose and poetry! The readings will take place this March and April 2011 in the Boston area and Western Mass., and they'll feature awardees from our 2010 review in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction and Poetry. … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Feb 11
Here's the latest installment of Fellows Notes, the current news of past fellows/finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. In February, our past awardees roll with rock book clubs, pack for Rome residencies, go walking (and dancing) in Memphis, and lots more. Five MCC Artist Fellowship Program awardees in Painting, Vico Fabbris (Fellow '06), Christopher Faust … [Read more...]
Artist to Artist: Lise Haines and Elizabeth Searle
Both authors have made careers of writing highly-acclaimed literary fiction; most recently, Lise Haines wrote Girl in the Arena and Elizabeth Searle wrote the novella and story collection Celebrities in Disgrace. And both authors find their creative lives veering in intriguing new trajectories — working with genres, forms, and subjects previously uncharted in their writing … [Read more...]