There's an interesting article in The Phoenix exploring why artists leave Boston for other cities. While I wish it created a fuller picture of local funding opportunities and explored more of the innovative artist-driven efforts to advance local arts, the article grapples with a crucial issue. And it is certainly worth asking what more a city, or a region, can do to make its … [Read more...]
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Artists as Presenters
The platforms and technology make it feasible, and even, in the right circumstances, advantageous: artists bypassing traditional gatekeepers and presenting work themselves. In some cases, an artist may decide that self-publishing/presenting is the most appropriate method for a particular work. In others, an artist or group becomes a presenter to benefit their discipline's … [Read more...]
Free Museum Passes from Blue Star Museums
The Blue Star Museums Initiative, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,600 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel, including active Reserve and National Guard, and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2012. Membership includes military … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – June 12
JUNE NEWS from MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists! Liza Bingham and Rebecca Doughty both have work in Sound & Light at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown (thru 6/27). Matthew Gamber, Sarah Malakoff, Rania Matar, and Cary Wolinsky were all featured in exhibitions during the Flash Forward Festival in Boston. Asia Kepka, Zehra Khan, and Rachel Mello both have … [Read more...]
What Makes an Arts Community Thrive?
Community can be a place, a group, an environment, a conversation. In the arts, community means all that and something more. We recently asked artists in different disciplines: What makes an arts community thrive? Lara JK Wilson, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow, Board member and Instructor at Grub Street Writers, Inc. What makes a thriving writers' community? The short … [Read more...]