It can be a slow burn or a lightning strike: the spark of an idea for a new work of art. Sometimes it starts when one artist experiences another artist's work, a journey as audience that leads to an exploration as creator. We're interested in art made in response to other art. So we asked artists, What are your experiences creating work inspired by - or that inspired the … [Read more...]
Sagit Zilberman: Global Groove
Jazz saxophonist and composer Sagit Zilberman has a concert at Vernissage Restaurant in Brookline this Thursday. On the eve of the concert, which promotes an important cause, we asked Sagit about her work, life, and what she calls her saxophone. With this concert at Vernissage, you hope to draw attention to GYG (Global Youth Groove). What is GYG, and why did you get … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – May 12
Wake up, hibernatin' creatures! May is a-flutter with news from past MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists: Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Film & Video '11) and Nicky Tavares (Film & Video '11) both received awards from the LEF Foundation's Spring 2012 Moving Image Fund. Janet Echelman (Crafts and Sculpture/Installation '09) and Nathalie Miebach (Sculpture/Installation '09) … [Read more...]
How Do You Choose Your Titles?
I made it. Now what do I call it? We've been exploring issues artists encounter in their work, and we recently asked artists in different disciplines: How do you choose your titles? Paul Endres, Jr, painter Being a painter in a digital age is, at least in part, a contradiction. Many artists might also suggest that providing titles to their visually-based art is also a … [Read more...]
2012 Guggenheim Fellows from Massachusetts
The 2012 Guggenheim Fellowships have been announced, and we offer hearty congratulations to all Massachusetts artists and scholars who received the prestigious award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. We note in particular past MCC Fellows Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Film & Video '11), Stephen DiRado (Photography '11), and Jane Gillooly (Film & Video … [Read more...]