On the Keepers of Tradition blog, Massachusetts state folklorist Maggie Holtzberg has distilled some of the techniques she learned at a recent meeting of folklorists on how best to preserve digital multimedia. Archiving work (as well as preserving and providing access to those archives) is the bread and butter of folklorists, but since so many artists are now either working in … [Read more...]
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To market, to market: a roundup
There's a free, two-day artist professional development event at the Boston Public Library this weekend, called the Second Annual Massachusetts Artists Leadership & Entrepreneurship Conference. It's open to artists of all disciplines. Here's a link to this year's schedule. It's also a great opportunity to meet fellow artists and explore the art and architecture of the … [Read more...]
Free the artists: a roundup
An handful of past MCC fellows/finalists recently got some nice (and free) publicity: Globe art critic Cate McQuaid had very good things to say about Sally Moore's (Sculpture/Installation Finalist '07) exhibition Edge and Jane Marsching (Photography Finalist '03), Deb Todd Wheeler (Sculpture/Installation Fellow '03), and Tanit Sakakini's exhibition Figment's … [Read more...]
The Business Part of Art
"The best things in life are free But you can keep 'em for the birds and bees Now give me money (that's what I want) That's what I want (that's what I want) That's what I want (that's what I want), yeah That's what I want" from the song Money (That's What I Want), writtten by Berry Gordy Jr./Janie Bradford, originally performed by Barrett Strong. Are you a visual artist … [Read more...]
And the Winner Is…
Sick of opinion polls and market research questionnaires? Well so were the artists Komar and Melamid, and a few years back they turned their annoyance into a humorous art project. They queried hundreds of people in different countries to discover what the best painting would look like, compiled the data, and then created paintings based on the information they collected. … [Read more...]