Mass Cultural Council is honored to support the work of individual artists. Fellows Notes is a monthly listing of the latest news from awardees in our Artist Fellowships Program.
May 2017:
Hiding in Plain Sight: Folk Masters of Massachusetts showcase concert features past or current recipients of an Artist Fellowship or Traditional Arts Apprenticeship performing at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport (5/14, 5 PM).
Many superb poets, including numerous past Artist Fellows and Finalists, and taking part in the Massachusetts Poetry Festival (5/5-5/7, Salem, MA). Not to be missed: a reading by Mass Cultural Council Poetry Fellows Scott Challener, Aaron Krol, Richard Michelson, Sarah Sousa, and Elizabeth Witte (5/6, 2 PM), at the Peabody Essex Museum. Other current and past Artist Fellows/Finalist taking part include Tom Sleigh (one of the headliners), Kathleen Aguero, Maria Luisa Arroyo, Carrie Bennett, Duy Doan, Danielle Legros Georges, Regie Gibson, Richard Hoffman, and Rosann Kozlowski. Learn more.
Sophia Ainslie, Ken Beck, Masako Kamiya, Joo Lee Kang, and Mary Kocol are all taking part in the 40th anniversary event at Gallery Naga (5/5, 5-8 PM, after party from 8-11 PM).
Steven Barkhimer, John Kuntz, Melinda Lopez, and John Minigan all have plays published in the New England New Play Anthology (edited by Patrick Gabridge). An event featuring the book takes place at Porter Square Books (5/16, 7 PM).
Congratulations to Sarah Bliss and Allison Cekala, who are among the film artists attending the 2017 Flaherty Film Seminar as LEF New England Fellows.
Charles Coe and Tanya Larkin are among the poets whose work is featured in Mass Poetry’s Raining Poetry project.
Samantha Fields, Matthew Gamber, Masako Kamiya, Justin Kimball, Kelly Popoff, Cristi Rinklin, and Daniela Rivera all received awards from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Artist’s Resource Trust Fund.
Kenji Nakayama and Ben Sloat are exhibiting in Absent at the Lesley University VanDernoot Gallery (5/11-6/10, opening reception 5/11, 6-8 PM).
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Elizabeth Alexander currently has work in the exhibition Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting at Currier Museum of Art (thru 5/21). She has solo show, I May Not Be a Lion, at Hodges Taylor Art Consultancy (thru 6/18), with an artist talk 5/20, 10:30 AM-12 noon, moderated by Annie Carlano, Senior Curator of Craft, Design and Fashion at The Mint Museum. Work from her Heirloom series is currently featured in the touring State of the Art exhibitions from Crystal Bridges Art Museum.
Stacey Alickman has a solo exhibition, In Memory: works by Stacey Alickman, at Kingston Gallery (5/3-5/28, opening reception 5/5, 5:30-8:30 PM).
Steven Bogart directs Peerless for Company One Theatre (C1), performed at the Boston Public Library (thru 5-28, 7 PM). All tickets are pay-what-you-can in this production, produced in conjunction with the Library’s “All the City’s a Stage: A Season of Shakespeare.”
Sarah Braman is part of the group exhibition In the Abstract at MASS MoCA (opening reception 5/6, 5:30-7 PM).
Mark Cooper recently showed at Lesley University’s Lunder Art Center. Read a review in WBUR’s ARTery.
John Gianvito screened his film Profit motive and the whispering wind at Harvard Film Archive (5/1, 7 PM), part of its Cinema of Resistance series.
Sean Greene is exhibiting in Eye of the Song: Visual Art by Musicians at The Putney School’s Michael S. Currier Center Gallery (thru 5/20).
Carrie Gustafson exhibited in The Smithsonian Craft Show in April.
Mags Harries has a solo exhibition, Adrift, at Boston Sculptors Gallery (5/10-6/11, opening reception 5/20, 5-8 PM).
James Heflin‘s debut poetry collection Krakatoa Picnic has been published by Hedgerow Books.
Catherine Kernan has a solo show, perimeters, at Soprafina Gallery (5/5-5/27, artist’s reception 5/13, 2-4 PM).
Dawn Kramer will perform in an event called From the Horse’s Mouth, a benefit for The Dance Complex (5/5 and 5/6).
Jesse Kreitzer‘s film Black Canaries received “Special Jury Recognition for Short Narrative Film” at the Ashland Independent Film Festival (AIFF). This marks the 8th film festival award for Black Canaries.
Mira T. Lee is part of The Strategic Writer panel for the Muse and the Marketplace Conference (5/7, 1-2:30 PM).
Danielle Legros Georges reads her poetry in the Brookline Poetry Series at the Brookline Public Library (5/21, 2 PM).
Mary Lum has an exhibition, Assembly (Lorem Ipsum), at MASS MoCA (thru 5/28).
Matthew Mazzotta currently has work at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum NYC in a show called By the People: Designing a Better America. Read an ArtSake article about his recent project, Cloud House.
Cecelia Raker‘s play La Llorona will be produced by Fresh Ink Theatre at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (5/5-5/20).
Abraham Ravett‘s film Holding Hands with Ilse screened in the Massachusetts Multicultural International Film Festival at UMASS Amherst in April.
Marian Roth has a 20-year retrospective, On Bended Light, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (5/5-7/16, opening reception 5/12, 6 PM).
Congratulations to Jim Shepard, who won the Rea Award, a $30,000 prize for a short story writer.
Leslie Sills has an exhibition of paintings, Sanctuary, at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury, Vermont (thru 6/25, artist talk 6/22, 6 PM).
Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz has an exhibition, Arctic Abrasions, at Miller Yezerski (thru 5/23).
Jeff Warmouth will offer a presentation as part of the exhibit Games and Politics at Boston Cyberarts (5/17, 7-9 PM).
Debra Weisberg recently completed 22-ft long commission for Facebook Cambridge Office. Read more on ArtSake.
Linda K. Werthheimer wrote an essay for WBUR’s Cognoscenti about how her mother broadened her experience with diverse cultures.
Read past Fellows Notes. If you’re a past fellow/finalist with news, let us know.
Image: Charles Coe’s poem “Mnemonic” installed as part of Mass Poetry’s Raining Poetry project.
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