On Thursday, July 27, 2017, Boston Poet Laureate and Mass Cultural Council Fellow Danielle Legros Georges will celebrate the publication of City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems with a public reading in the courtyard of the Boston Public Library. The event begins with welcome remarks by the City of Boston's Chief of Arts and Culture Julie Burros, at 6 … [Read more...]
Massachusetts Poetry Festival 2017
The ninth annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival will be held May 5-7, 2017 in downtown Salem, Massachusetts. The festival is a schedule of events, workshops, performances, and readings organized by Mass Poetry. Not to be missed: a reading by Mass Cultural Council Poetry Fellows Scott Challener, Aaron Krol, Richard Michelson, Sarah Sousa, and Elizabeth Witte on Saturday, May … [Read more...]
What Is Your Greatest Need as an Artist?
Periodically, we pose questions to artists about issues they face in their work and lives. This month, we asked practitioners in a variety of disciplines, What is your greatest need, as an artist? Michelle Marroquin, choreographer My needs, if all things were possible? 1. Funding that would be earmarked specifically for dancers to engage in new work. Residencies might … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Apr 17
In April, a shower of news from past and present Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship awardees. LEFT ON PEARL Preview/Trailer from Susan Rivo on Vimeo. Natalie Alper, Anne Neely, Jo Ann Rothschild, and Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship are part of the group exhibition Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters from 1950 to Now at the deCordova Museum … [Read more...]
Literary Awardees Read at Porter Square Books
Every two years, Mass Cultural Council awards grants to some of the most talented writers and poets working in the Commonwealth. Literary artists awarded through the Artist Fellowships Program will share work at Porter Square Books on Friday, April 21, 2017, 7 PM. Friday, April 21, 2017, 7 PM Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge MA Readers: Colleen … [Read more...]