Phil saw his shadow – six more weeks to enjoy Winter arts in MA. Here’s the news from past MCC Fellows/Finalists, for Feb.
Visualize data with Reese Inman (Drawing Fellow ’08) and Nathalie Miebach (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’09) in Random Access at Montserrat Art Gallery (thru 3/31, artist talk 2/28, 11:30 AM).
On the Border Line between crafts and contemporary art, Elizabeth Alexander (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’11) has work in The Mikhail Zakin Gallery in NJ (thru 2/24), and a solo show at Dana Hall Art Gallery in Wellesley (2/13-3/8).
Stacey Alickman (Painting Finalist ’10) launched a fundraising campaign for her new painting project. She’s using United States Artist Projects, which she’s eligible for through her MCC award!
Claire Andrade-Watkins‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’09) short film Hi Neighbor is a Jurors Choice for the 31st Annual Black Maria Film Festival Tour.
Congratulations to Ben Berman (Poetry Fellow ’08), whose first book of poetry has been accepted for publication by Able Muse Press.
Steven Bogart (Playwriting Finalist ’09) directs a public reading of James Carroll’s play American Requiem for Actors Shakespeare Project (2/15, 7 PM).
Alice Bouvrie‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’11) film Thy Will Be Done screens at First Parish of Watertown (2/10, 7 PM) and is part of the Supporting Students – Saving Lives conference in San Diego (2/17-2/19).
Congratulations to Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Film & Video Fellow ’11, with Ilisa Barbash), who won a Creative Capital Film/Video grant.
Vote for Candice Smith Corby (Painting Fellow ’08) in the Artists Wanted competition!
Angela Cunningham (Crafts Finalist ’11, ’09) was featured in Feb. issue of Ceramics Monthly.
Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10) is in The Calender’s Tales: Fantasy, Figuration, & Representation at Boston University 808 Gallery (2/2-3/31).
Joel Janowitz (Painting Fellow ’08) is in Breathing Spaces (with Anne Lilly) at the Art Institute of Boston Gallery (thru 3/4).
Zehra Khan (Drawing Finalist ’12) and collaborator Tim Winn pit Pandas Vs. Skunks as artists-in-residence at Cape Cod Community College (thru 2/24).
Matthew Mazzotta‘s (Sculpture/Installation Fellow ’11) interactive Steeped in Exploration project was awarded a Americans for the Arts 2011 Year in Review Public Art Award for Community Engagement and Social Activism.
In 2011, Koji Nakano‘s (Music Composition Finalist ’11, ’09) won an ASCAP Plus Award and a National Science Council (Taiwan) grant. And upcoming, he has commissions from Taipei Chinese Orchestra and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players!
A reading from Monica Raymond‘s (Playwriting Finalist ’07, Poetry Finalist ’08) play-in-progress Four Riffs for a Sailor will be part of Interim Writers (2/3) at the Democracy Center in Cambridge.
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze (Crafts Fellow ’09) is featured in the Winter 2012 issue of Surface Design Journal.
Jeff Daniel Silva‘s (Film & Video Finalist ’09) Ivan and Ivana debuts in NYC at MOMA (2/17 & 2/18)!
The lyrical films of Robert Todd (Film & Video Finalist ’09, ’05) will screen in a program called Golden Hour at the Bright Screening Room in Paramount Center (2/17, 6 PM).
Read past Fellows Notes. If you’re a past fellow/finalist with news, let us know.
Image: Matthew Mazzotta, STEEPED IN EXPLORATION (2010), methane digester, reeds, wood, paint, burner, 20x10x8 ft.
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