Remember when we told you about Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge and its new book machine, which prints paperback books while you wait, including books by self-publishing authors? Steve Almond (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow '08) is about to give a working demonstration. On Wednesday, December 2, 7 PM at Harvard Square Bookstore in Cambridge, he's going to do something … [Read more...]
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NEA Live Webcast Cultural Workforce Forum
This just in from the National Endowment for the Arts: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS LIVE WEBCAST OF ITS CULTURAL WORKFORCE FORUM ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009 The public is invited to watch a discussion of how art works as part of the real economy. On Friday, November 20, 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will present a live webcast on … [Read more...]
Madras Press: giving fiction the perfect fit
There are interesting unities between philanthropy and art-making, particularly when art is produced and presented in non-traditional ways. Both require out-of-the-box approach to commerce, an eschewing of financial norms. In Art and Philanthropy, we'll look at those projects that merge artistic with philanthropic vision - creative, innovative, altruistic. Sumanth Prabhaker, … [Read more...]
Writer, publish thyself?
When writers decide to self-publish, one issue is cost. The creative control of self-publishing may be liberating, but absorbing the costs of book production... less so. On the other hand, it affords the opportunity to be creative about it. Some artists finance self-publishing projects before the books are published - artist/entrepreneur and opera singer Ja-Nae Duane raised … [Read more...]
Creative Massachusetts: The Artists Congress 2009
Free to Be You and Me Do you compose songs using a pentatonic scale, paint autumnal landscapes with cadmiums, or write poems that purposely don't rhyme? Perhaps you shoot photographs using film or make illustrations using an app on your cell phone. No matter what your discipline, you are welcome to attend the free professional development program taking place Sat., November 7 … [Read more...]