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Fellows Notes – April 12

March 30, 2012 Leave a Comment

In April, past MCC Artist Fellowship awardees are a-bloom with news.

The Fourth Annual Massachusetts Poetry Festival (4/20-4/22) has an impressive schedule of poetry (including a host of events with past MCC-awardees).

Boston Sculptors Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary at U-Mass Lowell Art Gallery (4/2-4/26) includes works by the MCC-awarded Mags Harries, Hannah Verlin, Beth Galston, Rosalyn Driscoll, Sarah Hutt, Laura Baring-Gould, and Julia Shepley.

We were pleased to learn that a DVD compilation of animated films by the late Karen Aqua is now available. Also, two screenings (NYC and Arlington, MA) will take place on May 30, 2012 – one year after the artist’s passing.

Prilla Smith Brackett is in the 2D Small Works Salon at the Maud Morgan Arts Center (4/2-5/20) and in rethink Ink, a Mixit Print Studio retrospective at the Boston Public Library (4/12-7/31).

Patrick Donnelly reads from his new poetry book at Harvard’s Lamont Library (4/12, 5 PM).

In-depth article about Janet Echelman in Arch Daily.

Patrick Ryan Frank reads from his new poetry book How the Losers Love What’s Lost at a Boston University Creative Writing event (4/4, 7:30 PM) with Jorie Graham.

Pagan Kennedy is co-teaching an innovative, year-long Non-Fiction Career Lab at Grub St (apply by 4/25).

Niho Kozuru is in Boundless Ambition at the Cambridge School of Weston (thru 6/18).

Jesse Kreitzer‘s documentary The Restoration Project will premiere in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner!

Dawn Lane will be resident artist at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Studio for Interrelated Media (4/3-4/5), where students will reconstruct Dawn’s common ground.

Rania Matar has a photography exhibit at Galerie Janine Rubeiz in Beirut and takes part in events at Fotofest in Texas, including book signings of A Girl and Her Room.

Mary Bucci McCoy is part of a two-person show (Distillation) at the Rhode Island College Bannister Gallery (4/5-4/25). Also, Mary and fellow Fellow Joe Wardwell both had lovely things written about them in the Boston Globe by critic Cate McQuaid.

Greg Mencoff is in the Traveling Scholars show at the SMFA.

Robert Oppenheim‘s show Dot by Dot will be at the Simmons College Trustman Gallery (4/30-6/1).

Monica Raymond‘s monologue Lindsay was performed in WA and a new play excerpt (soon to appear in Verse Wisconsin) performed in DC. Monica is organizing SWAN Day – Occupy Boston Women Artists at samson (4/4, 7 PM).

Matt Rich‘s Ghost Muscle solo show is at samson (thru 4/28).

Cristi Rinklin has a USA Projects fundraising campaign for an upcoming exhibition at the Currier Museum of Art. Read her ArtSake Q&A.

Nick Rodrigues has his Graduate Thesis Exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts this month.

James Rutenbeck‘s documentary Scenes from a Parish screens as part of the Lowell National Historic Park’s Folklife Series (4/11, 7:30 PM).

Jonathan Schwartz is part of the TIE Cinema Expo at ICA Boston (4/1, 4 PM).

Mari Seder recently exhibited work and presented her book Cuba: El Tiempo Suspendido/Time Suspended at Fotografico Alvarez Bravo Museum in Mexico, where she also teaches photography and photo collage workshops.

Tara Sellios recently shared a new body of photographic work, Impulses, on her website.

Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz just finished showing at the Wentworth Institute and is currently participating in 2D Small Works Salon at Maud Morgan Arts.

Stephen Tourlentes‘s solo photography show Of Lengths and Measures is at Carroll & Sons (4/4-5/19).

Read past Fellows Notes. If you’re a past fellow/finalist with news, let us know.

Image: Prilla Smith Brackett, FAMILY PATTERNS #13 (2011), Drawing materials, acrylic, oil on panel, 96×108 in.

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