Fellows Notes – Jun 23

News from awardees of our Artist Fellowships Program.

Eight Mass Cultural Council-funded apprenticeship teams will be demonstrating at the Lowell Folk Festival (7/28-7/30).

John Oluwole ADEkoje (Dramatic Writing Finalist ’21) and Thato Mwosa (Dramatic Writing Finalist ’19) both have films screening in the Roxbury International Film Festival (6/20-7/2).

Meg Alexander (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’18), Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10), Beth Galston (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’13), and Pat Shannon (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’15) are exhibiting in Stick People at Storefront Art Projects in Watertown (thru 6/24). Ellen Wineberg (Painting Finalist ’04) is director of Storefront Art Projects, and Rebecca Doughty organized the exhibition.

Roya Amigh (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’20), Marky Kauffmann (Photography Fellow ’17), and Zhonghe (Elena) Li (Traditional Arts Finalist ’22) have work in the Cambridge Art Association’s National Prize Show (thru 7/7).

Cameron Barker (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’22), Domingo Barreres (Painting Fellow ’04), and Dave Bermingham (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’21) are among the artists exhibiting in Holding Space: Meditations on Queer Experiences at Fort Point Arts Community Assemblage Gallery in Boston (thru 6/25).

Fernadina Chan and Adriane Brayton (Choreography Finalists ’22) present Not Eye, Us at the Boston Center for the Arts Calderwood Pavilion (6/22-6/24, virtual performance 6/26-7/14). They have a virtual artist talk (6/8, 12 PM). Fernadina Chan is currently a Boston Dancemakers Resident.

Charles Coe (Poetry Fellow ’96) and Daniel Johnson (Poetry Finalist ’22, ’20, ’18) read at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition (6/15, 7 PM ET).

Cynthia Consentino (Crafts Fellow ’07), Leigh Craven (Crafts Finalist ’15), Holly Curcio (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’19), Mary Kenny (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’05), Judith Motzkin (Crafts Fellow ’19), and Claudia Olds Goldie (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’17) are among the artists exhibiting in State of Clay at the Lexington Arts & Crafts Society (thru 6/11).

Joerg Dressler (Painting Finalist ’20), Nicole Duennebier (Painting Fellow ’22, ’16), and Wilhelm Neusser (Painting Finalist ’22, ’20) are among the artists exhibiting in Reading the Earth: On landscape, nature, and environment at Suffolk University Gallery in Boston 6/7-7/28).

Maya Janson (Poetry Fellow ’18), Heather Kamins (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’16), Jennifer Martelli (Poetry Fellow ’00), Jill McDonough (Poetry Finalist ’18), Thomas McNeely (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’16, ’14), Diana Renn (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’22) all have books named 2023 Must-Reads by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

Terry Jenoure (Music Composition Finalist ’21) performs with Angelica Sanchez in Secret to Life at Bombyx in Northampton (6/25, 7 PM).

Khary Saeed Jones (Film & Video Fellow ’21) and James Rutenbeck (Film & Video Finalist ’19, ’11) are among the New England filmmakers receiving support from the recently announced LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund grants.

Catherine Kernan (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’16), Randy Garber (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’22), Judy Haberl (Photography Finalist ’19), Joel Janowitz (Painting Fellow ’16, ’08), and Boriana Kantcheva (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’22) all have work in the group exhibition Singular and Serial: Expanding the Circle at Cove Street Arts in Portland ME (thru 7/8). Catherine Kernan co-curated the show.

**

Elizabeth Alexander (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’11) has a solo exhibition, Old Blush, at K Contemporary in Denver (6/24-8/5).

Reed Anderson (Painting Fellow ’18) has opened a new gallery, Reed Anderson Projects, in a space shared with Familiar Trees Bookshop in Great Barrington.

Jean Appolon‘s (Choreography Fellow ’22) company Jean Appolon Expressions performs at Beyond the Bounds at Nauset Light Beach (6/24-6/25, 6 PM ET).

Juan Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek (Photography Fellows ’19) exhibit their project Momias de los Cóndores at Gallery Kayafas in Boston (6/16-7/22).

P. Carl‘s (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’18) theatrical adaptation of his book Becoming a Man is part of the 2023/24 season at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge.

Alicia Casilio, Kelly Casilio, Sara Casilio, and Cary Wolinsky (aka TRIIIBE) (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellows ’09) have a new exhibition, Repeat Offenders: TRIIIBE Returns, at South Shore Art Center in Cohasset (6/11-7/23).

Nicole Duennebier (Painting Fellow ’22, ’16) has a solo exhibition, Tender Burden, at 13FOREST Gallery in Arlington (thru 7/14, artist talk 6/24 4-6 PM ET). As mentioned above, she’s also in Reading the Earth: On landscape, nature, and environment at Suffolk University Gallery in Boston 6/7-7/28).

Tory Fair (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’18) has work in the exhibition Play at Drive-By Projects in Watertown (6/3-8/27).

Tsar Fedorsky (Photography Fellow ’15) is among the artists with work in QuarryArt at Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester (6/10-7/30). The artist recently completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for an art book called Stone, Ghost, Life.

Audrey Goldstein (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’22) has a solo exhibition, Intimate Toxicities, at Gallery Kayafas in Boston (thru 6/10).

Magdalena Gómez (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’03) is a recipient of a National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, NFA (National Fund for Artists) $10,000 Award.

Judy Haberl (Photography Finalist ’19) has a solo exhibition, Hidden Agendas / Boutique, at Gallery Kayafas in Boston (6/16-7/22). She is exhibiting in The Tbilisi Photo Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia. As mentioned above, she’s also exhibiting in Singular and Serial: Expanding the Circle at Cove Street Arts in Portland ME (thru 7/8).

Andrew Haines (Painting Fellow ’00) has a solo exhibition, In the Weeds, at Clark Gallery in Lincoln (thru 6/13).

Masako Kamiya (Painting Fellow ’10, ’06) has a solo exhibition, Kaleidoscope, at Gallery NAGA (6/9-7/14).

Danielle Legros Georges (Poetry Fellow ’22, ’14) has poetry in the most recent issue of The Harvard Review.

Jennifer Martelli (Poetry Fellow ’00) has a poem featured in The Arts Fuse.

Rania Matar (Photography Fellow ’21, ’11, ’07) is featured in an article on Artsy. The article includes the artist’s portrait of Iman Vellani, who plays superhero Ms. Marvel in the Marvel TV series.

Lenelle Moïse‘s (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’17) play K-I-S-S-I-N-G, produced this year by The Huntington and The Front Porch Arts Collective, received Outstanding New Script, as well as other awards, at this year’s Elliott Norton Awards.

Daniel Ranalli (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’10) has an exhibiting, Whale Stranding at the New Bedford Whaling Museum (thru 11/5).

James Rutenbeck‘s (Film & Video Finalist ’19, ’11) film A Reckoning in Boston will screen at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Juneteenth (6/19, 1 PM ET). As mentioned above, he is also among the New England filmmakers receiving support from the recently announced LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund grants.

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol (Music Composition Finalist ’19) is releasing a new album, Turkish Hipster on 7/21. Watch a video for the song A Capoeira Turca (featuring Anat Cohen).

Candice Smith Corby (Painting Fellow ’08) co-created Now and Soon and Somehow Forever with William Pettit, exhibiting at the New Bedford Whaling Museum (through 11/26, artist talk 8/17, 6-8 PM ET).

Ilya Vidrin (Choreography Fellow ’20) choreographed Wait/Weight, performed by North Atlantic Ballet in Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport (6/11, 3 and 6 PM ET).

Deb Todd Wheeler (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’03) has partnered with with The Children’s Room of Arlington to publish The Book of Walks.

 

Read past Fellows Notes.

Image: TRIIIBE (Cary Wolinsky and Alicia, Kelly and Sara Casilio), TRIPLET CRIME (2010).