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Fellows Notes – Nov 21

November 1, 2021 Leave a Comment

Fellows Notes is a monthly listing of the latest news from awardees in our Artist Fellowships Program.

Joyce Utting Schutter (Crafts Fellow '21), ANATIDAE'S REPOSE (2017) abaca, maple samaras, thread, steel, pigments, 16x21x8 in, photo by Mark Johnston.

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Carrie Gustafson (Crafts Fellow ’11) and Jennifer McCurdy (Crafts Fellow ’19) are among the artists exhibiting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show (11/5-11/7).

David Hilliard (Photography Fellow ’17) and Rania Matar (Photography Fellow ’21, ’11, ’07) are among the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022 Finalists from The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Their work will be presented in The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today, in Spring/Winter 2022/2023, before traveling to other cities in the United States.

Niho Kozuru (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’09) and Joyce Utting Schutter (Crafts Fellow ’21) are among the artists exhibiting in VISION2021: Found, Formed, Fused at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis.

Nathalie Miebach (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’17, ’09) and Elizabeth Whyte Schulze (Crafts Fellow ’09) are exhibiting in Interwoven: Contemporary Basketry at the Cahoon Museum of Art in Cotuit (thru 12/19, artist talk with Elizabeth Whyte Schulze 11/14, 2 PM ET).

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Bremner Benedict (Photography Finalist ’21) is exhibiting at Sun Stone Studio in Concord (thru 12/30).

Matt Brackett (Painting Fellow ’04) has a solo exhibition, One Can Imagine, at Alpha Gallery in Boston (11/5-11/27, reception 11/5 6-8 PM ET).

Samantha Fields (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’11) offers the workshop Hand space – the need to make special at the Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University in Medford (11/18, 6-8 PM). The workshop will explore basic embroidery and the possibilities of collective handwork.

Maria Finkelmeier (Music Composition Finalist ’21) was featured by WBUR for her album Descended, exploring the supernatural legacy of Lafcadio Hearn.

Marky Kauffmann (Photography Fellow ’17) has photographic work in unique: alternative processes 2021 at the A Smith Gallery in Johnson City TX (11/12-1/2). Images from her series The Females are published in Issue 34 of The Hand Magazine.

Ariel Kotker (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’07) will participate in the Eastworks Open Studios 2021 (11/6-11/7) in Easthampton.

Niho Kozuru (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’09), along with exhibiting in VISION2021: Found, Formed, Fused (see above), recently received commissions from Google, The Abby Residence, and Frank & Nick’s restaurant at Encore Boston Harbor.

Mariona Lloreta‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’21) film Altars will premiere at ALTARS Live, an interdisciplinary event spotlighting extraordinary BIPOC artists in Boston, hosted by the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (11/14, 6-7 PM ET).

Holly Lynton (Photography Fellow ’13) has photographic work in On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale at Yale University Art Gallery (thru 1/9); Human/Nature at the Lishui Art Museum in Lishui, China (11/5-11/9); Four Degrees: Eco Anxiety and Climate Change, a virtual exhibition hosted by Strange Fire Collective & Humble Arts Foundation; and In Conversation With The Land at the Center For Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO (thru 12/31).

Adam Mazo and Ben Pender Cudlip‘s (Film & Video Fellows ’21) new short film Bounty will have its world premiere online (11/10, 7 PM ET, register).

Charlotte Meehan (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’21) theatre company Sleeping Weazel is streaming the film Living Landscape, featuring four important Boston artists performing and discussing their works (thru 11/11).

Gary Metras (Poetry Fellow ’84) publishes his eighth full-length book of poetry, Vanishing Points, this month.

Laura Petrovich-Cheney (Crafts Fellow ’21) has a solo exhibition, Wood Quilts, at The New England Quilt Museum in (thru 12/31).

Abraham Ravett‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’09) film 24 cards screened at the 2021 Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder CO.

 

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

Image: Joyce Utting Schutter (Crafts Fellow ’21), ANATIDAE’S REPOSE (2017) abaca, maple samaras, thread, steel, pigments, 16x21x8 in, photo by Mark Johnston.

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