Roughly once a month, we pose questions to artists about their work and lives. We recently asked a group of artists, What technological trends are having the greatest impact on art in your discipline (for better or for worse)? Timothy Kadish, visual artist The Pixel. Digital photography and related technologies are having a profound effect on the 2 dimensional visual … [Read more...]
Posing For Artist Opportunities
He was begging to be in pictures. Call for Emerging Visual Artists Real Art Ways' STEP UP is a series of six solo exhibitions open to emerging artists living in New York, New Jersey or New England. Learn more. Deadline Extended: June 8, 2014 (midnight) Muralist The Somerville Arts Council seeks an artist for the creation of a mural for the residences at 60-64 Derby … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Jun 14
It's June! Paper plate holders, baked bean mounds, and "picnic" (as a verb) are all emerging from their winter slumbers. Here are this sun-shiny month's news and notes from MCC awardees. At Gallery NAGA, Sophia Ainslie, Masako Kamiya, David Moore, and Randal Thurston join John Guthrie in the exhibition On the Wall, and Harold Reddicliffe has work in the group show Color … [Read more...]
Mass Cultural Council Announces 37 Awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Painting
Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2014 Artist Fellowship awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Painting. Nineteen artists and one collaborative duo will receive fellowships of $10,000, and 17 artists will receive $500 finalist awards. See a list of this year's fellows and finalists, to date. The awards are anonymously judged, based solely on … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – May 14
Exhibitions, events, awards - and a festival of poets in Salem. MCC Fellows/Finalists are a-bloom with news in May. The Massachusetts Poetry Festival (May 2-4, 2014, Salem, MA) is a multi-faceted celebration of poetry in the Commonwealth and in the wider literary community. Among the many talented and renowned poets participating are MCC Fellows/Finalists Denise Bergman, … [Read more...]