Anybody remember the video game Air-Sea Battle for the Atari 2600, circa late-70s/early-80s? When trying to come up with a unifying theme for this post, I remembered that game, which involved various pixelated battles between 8-bit planes, ships, and anti-aircraft guns. (I should've known I was headed for a life in the arts when my friend and I used to spend all afternoon … [Read more...]
Tour de Awesome
This post is a pictorial tour of some of the exceptional stuff past fellows/finalists from MCC's Artist Fellowships Program are currently up to. 1. Reimagined tea pots. Leslie Sills (Crafts Fellow '95) created the above work, called HIGH TEA. The sculptural teapot is among the works included in The Teapot Redefined, an exhibition of sculptural teapots at Mobilia … [Read more...]
Studio Views: Matthew Rich
Nine Boston-area artists are in the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston's 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition. We've been sharing Studio Views with the finalists for the prestigious $25,000 Foster Prize, and I've found it interesting the way artists' descriptions of their art-making often seem to parallel the work itself. Fred H.C. Liang writes with evocative … [Read more...]
Sept. 20 Artist Fellowships Deadline Fast Approaching!
Composers, dramatic writers, and sculpture/installation artists: the deadline to apply for a 2011 Artist Fellowship in Music Composition, Playwriting, or Sculpture/Installation is this Monday, September 20, 2010 (this is a postmark deadline for mailed materials). In other words: there's still time! Read full program guidelines and apply - pronto, ASAP, and post haste. The … [Read more...]
Rifrakt: Shining a light on emerging artists
The Rifrákt artist collective takes the conventional approach to art exhibitions and bends it a bit (the name is a play on the word "refract"). Founded by Carolyn Hulbert and Stephanie Goode, the collective shows work in a variety of spaces, including private homes, galleries, and alternative spaces like coffee houses and libraries. And, with their latest effort, the book 25 … [Read more...]