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) presented Not Eye, Us at the Boston Center for the Arts Calderwood Pavilion (virtual performance available thru 7/14). Fernadina Chan is currently a Boston Dancemakers Resident.
Congratulations to Venetia Dale (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’19) and Yu-Wen Wu (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’21, Painting Fellow ’04), who along with Cicely Carew were selected for the James and Audrey Foster Prize and exhibition at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art (thru 1/18).
Mark Del Guidice (Crafts Fellow ’19), James Dye (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’22), Sarah M. Guerin (Traditional Arts Finalist ’22), and Sally B. Moore (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’07, ’05, ’03) are among the artists exhibiting in the 87th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft at Fitchburg Art Museum (thru 8/27).
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 thru 7/28).
Sarah Madeleine T. Guerin (Traditional Arts ’22) and Laura Petrovich-Cheney (Crafts Fellow ’21) each received the Craft Innovation Jumpstarter Grant from The Society of Arts + Crafts.
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.
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.
Colleen Kiely (Painting Fellow ’98) and Brooke Stewart (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’22) are among the artists exhibiting in PERSONA at Gallery VERY in Boston (8/4-9/9).
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Elizabeth Alexander (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’11) has a solo exhibition, Old Blush, at K Contemporary in Denver (thru 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.
Juan Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek (Photography Fellows ’19) exhibit their project Momias de los Cóndores at Gallery Kayafas in Boston (thru 7/22).
Linda Bond (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’13) was part of the restoration project for the Hestia Art Collective mural in Northampton. Listen to a radio interview about the mural and its restoration.
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 an exhibition, Repeat Offenders: TRIIIBE Returns, at South Shore Art Center in Cohasset (thru 7/23). We are sad to share that Cary Wolinsky, one of the collaborators in TRIIIBE and a renowned photographer and filmmaker, passed away in June. Read a tribute by Cathy Newman. There will be a special Q&A featuring the artists and collaborator Marie Brown at the South Shore Art Center on 7/26, 6-8 PM.
Rebecca Doughty (Painting Finalist ’10) has work in the group exhibition Misfits II at PULP in Holyoke (7/15-8/13).
Nicole Duennebier (Painting Fellow ’22, ’16) has a solo exhibition, Tender Burden, at 13FOREST Gallery in Arlington (thru 7/14). As mentioned above, she’s also in Reading the Earth: On landscape, nature, and environment at Suffolk University Gallery in Boston thru 7/28).
Janet Echelman‘s (Crafts Fellow ’09, Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’09) public art installation Current in Columbus OH was recently featured in the Colossal online art journal.
Tory Fair (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’18) has work in the exhibition Play at Drive-By Projects in Watertown (thru 8/27).
Tsar Fedorsky (Photography Fellow ’15) is among the artists with work in QuarryArt at Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester (thru 7/30). The artist recently completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for an art book called Stone, Ghost, Life.
Samantha Fields (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’11) has a dual exhibition with Barbara Ishikura called Frippery, Finery, Frills, at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, VT (7/1-9/24, artist talk 7/1, 2 PM ET). She also created a public art installation for Lot Lab from Now+There, on view near Charlestown Navy Yard thru 10/31. Read about it in WBUR.
Beth Galston (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’13) has a solo exhibition, Leaf Series: moments in time at The Gallery at Singer Editions in Boston (7/20-10/26, reception/artist talk 7/27, 5:30 PM ET). She also has work in the group exhibition Attention to Detail at Cove Street Arts in Portland, ME (9/14-11/11).
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.
Kelle Groom‘s (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’20) newest book How to Live: A Memoir-in-Essays will be published October 1, 2023 by Tupelo Press. It explores the idea of home and how to live a creative life. Learn about upcoming readings. Two essays from Kelle Groom’s manuscript-in-progress, Tideland, were recently published as “Tideland” in New England Review Vol 44.1 and an excerpt from “My Shipwreck” in Provincetown Arts Review. Poems from her fifth poetry manuscript-in-progress were recently published in American Poetry Review, diode, and Witness, and are forthcoming in Plume, Another Chicago Magazine and Gargoyle. The artist recently joined the staff of AGNI Magazine as a nonfiction editor.
Judy Haberl (Photography Finalist ’19) has a solo exhibition, Hidden Agendas / Boutique, at Gallery Kayafas in Boston (thru 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).
Elizabeth James-Perry‘s (Traditional Arts Fellow ’14) weavings and jewelry exhibits with the work of other artists in Double Arrows at SMFA at Tufts / TUAG Boston Galleries (9/5-11/12, artist talk 10/18). The artist was profiled on the National Endowment for the Arts site, as a National Heritage Fellow.
Terry Jenoure (Music Composition Finalist ’21) and her bank The Portal perform at Bushnell Park in Hartford CT (7/17, 7:30 PM ET). The artist recently performed with Angelica Sanchez in Secret to Life at Bombyx in Northampton. In Spring, she received a Creative Capital grant.
Daniel Johnson (Poetry Finalist ’22, ’20, ’18) will publish a new poetry collection, Shadow Act, in August.
Masako Kamiya (Painting Fellow ’10, ’06) has a solo exhibition, Kaleidoscope, at Gallery NAGA (thru 7/14).
Jared Katsiane‘s (Film & Video Fellow ’15) interactive video exhibition Southie Then and Now – a Neighborhood Transformed will exhibit at the Boston City Hall (Lobby – Upper Mezzanine 7/18-8/30, community discussion 7/26, 12 PM).
Marky Kauffmann (Photography Fellow ’17) has work in three different area galleries as part of the Somerville Toy Camera Festival. This Fall, she will have work on view at the Soho Gallery (NYC), LightBox Photographic Gallery (Astoria OR), The Hand Magazine, and Analog Forever Magazine’s online exhibit Glitch in the Matrix. Her work received numerous Honorable Mentions at the 20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards.
Danielle Legros Georges (Poetry Fellow ’22, ’14) has poetry in the most recent issue of The Harvard Review.
Erica Licea-Kane (Painting Fellow ’18) has a solo exhibition, From One to the Other, at SJ Art Consulting in Haverhill (9/16-10/21).
Holly Lynton (Photography Fellow ’13) will discuss her photography book Bare Handed with MASS MoCA Senior Curator Susan Cross at the MASS MoCA Store (8/31, 6 PM). The event is free but RSVP is required.
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.
DK McCutchen (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist ’12) will have a book launch event for her debut novel Jellyfish Dreaming at Odyssey Books in South Hadley (8/22, 7 PM ET). She will be in conversation with Cindy Snow and Kirsten Mosher.
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.
Maria Molteni (Painting Fellow ’22) was commissioned by the Rose Kennedy Greenway to create the public art installation Gateway to Infinity (An Anti-monument), on view thru Oct. ’24. The launch of the work coincides with a public Summer Solstice ritual called Triskele & the Monster’s Tools: A Solstice Invocation of Medusa Consciousness. Both the installation and performance were created with assistance by Ali Reid, Nicole Hogarty and Laura Ganci.
Sally B. Moore (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Finalist ’07, ’05, ’03), along with exhibiting in the 87th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft at Fitchburg Art Museum (thru 8/27), has work in In Tandem at Cape Code Art Museum in Dennis (thru 7/30).
Daniel Ranalli (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’10) has an exhibiting, Whale Stranding at the New Bedford Whaling Museum (thru 11/5).
Cristi Rinklin (Painting Fellow ’16, Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’10) is in the group exhibition Nature’s Tapestry at Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston (thru 7/29).
James Rutenbeck‘s (Film & Video Finalist ’19, ’11) film A Reckoning in Boston screened at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Juneteenth. 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).
Ellen Shattuck Pierce (Drawing & Printmaking Finalist ’22) has a solo exhibition, Taking Place, at HallSpace in Dorchester (9/16-10/21).
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).
Shilpi Suneja‘s (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’18) debut novel House of Caravans is published in September ’23. Read a review in Kirkus.
Debra Weisberg (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’08) has a solo exhibition, Holding the Center Still: Redux, at Five Points Arts Center in Torrington CT (thru 7/15, artist talk 7/5 6:30 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.
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze (Crafts Fellow ’09) has a solo exhibition, Elizabeth Whyte Schulze: 31 Years of Vessels, at Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge (8/5-9/2).
* As we wrote in an article discussing our future funding and support for artists, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue the Fellows Notes feature on ArtSake. For now, this will be our last Fellows Notes. We’ve enjoyed compiling them! Mass Cultural Council remains extremely proud of the work of our past grant recipients. We look forward to continuing to find ways to help Massachusetts artists prosper and create in the days ahead.
Image: From GATEWAY TO INFINITY (AN ANTI-MONUMENT) by Maria Molteni (Painting Fellow ’22), with Ali Reid, Nicole Hogarty and Laura Ganci, on view at the Rose Kennedy Greenway thru Oct 24.
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