The Massachusetts Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2017 Artist Fellowship awards in Crafts, Dramatic Writing, and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres. Sixteen artists will receive fellowships of $12,000, and 16 artists will receive $1,000 finalist awards. The awards are anonymously judged, based solely on the artistic quality and creative ability of the work … [Read more...]
Boston Supports Artists
Two recent announcements reflect a steadily growing landscape of support for artists in Boston. Brother Thomas Fellowships Congratulations to the ten artists named as 2015 Brother Thomas Fellows - a list that includes four past Mass Cultural Council awardees. The Brother Thomas Fellows receive unrestricted grants of $15,000 through a fund established at the Boston … [Read more...]
Samuel Rowlett: Itinerant Painter
Mass Cultural Council and the New Art Center (NAC) will present Mass Cultural Council Awardees in Crafts and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres, September 18-October 17, 2015, at the NAC. Samuel Rowlett, one of the participating artists, will be exhibiting new work. "New" as in, painted-day-of-the-opening new. Samuel Rowlett and his mobile portrait painting studio … [Read more...]
New Art Center Presents Awardees in Crafts and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres
Mass Cultural Council and The New Art Center (NAC) will present the Mass Cultural Council Awardees in Crafts and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres, September 18-October 17, 2015, at the NAC, 61 Washington Park in Newtonville, MA. The exhibition will showcase awardees from Mass Cultural Council's 2015 Artist Fellowships, bringing together works in the Crafts and … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Jul 15
As we continue to celebrate 40 years of fellowships in Massachusetts, here are some of the star-spangled, firecrackin' July honors and accomplishments of the program's awardees. Eighteen past Fellows and Finalists, including awardees from each of the four decades in the Artists Fellowships' history, are among the artists participating in the Isles Arts Initiative, in and … [Read more...]