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Miki Sawada: Gather Hear

May 4, 2021 Leave a Comment

Miki Sawada performing at The Grove, a DIY music venue in Fayetteville, West Virginia, 2018, photo by Chris Jackson.

Miki Sawada is a classically-trained pianist. Since 2017, she's been traveling with a piano, in a van, to community spaces throughout the country, to perform classical music for free. Called the Gather Hear Tour, Miki's project has traveled from Alaska to West Virginia to an upcoming tour in Massachusetts. We asked Miki about the tour, her work, and her life as an artist … [Read more...]

Out of the Woods: Bernay Fine Art

April 27, 2021 Leave a Comment

ArtSake recently caught up with Paula Friedman, the Director of the Bernay Fine Art gallery to get a sneak peak of what they're up to. Tell us a little about yourself and how you came to be the Owner/Director of Bernay Fine Art. My brother Lou and I are partners in Bernay Fine Art, a contemporary art gallery in Great Barrington, MA. We grew up in the Berkshires … [Read more...]

Daniel Grant: The Business of Being an Artist

January 16, 2020 1 Comment

Cover art from THE BUSINESS OF BEING AN ARTIST by Daniel Grant (Allworth Press).

Daniel Grant of Amherst, Mass., is an experienced arts writer and the author of The Business of Being an Artist. We asked him about the origins of his book and what artists need to know about their careers and current trends in visual arts. What led you to write your book The Business of Being an Artist? When I entered the arts service field, in the mid-1970s, the … [Read more...]

Cagen Luse: Drawn to Comics

March 28, 2019 Leave a Comment

Boston-based artist and illustrator Cagen Luse is the originator of Lunch Time ComiX, a biographical rendering of his family and growing up and living as a "racially ambiguous artist, father, foodie, sci-fi nerd and husband." He is also a member of Comics In Color (CiC), an organization that promotes comics by and about people of color in Boston who love comics and comic book … [Read more...]

Mary Bichner: Seeing Music

August 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

Mary Bichner is a composer, orchestrator, and performer whose opera-in-progress, The Memoirs of Antonina, will have a special concert reading at Central Square Theater (Sep 2, 2018, 7 PM, free but reservations required). We asked the artist about her unique musical mind, the support she's earned from funders and organizations, and what's next in her intriguing and colorful … [Read more...]

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