• Home
  • About
  • Mass Cultural Council Support for Artists
  • Contact

Massachusetts Cultural Council

ArtSake - New work & the creative process

  • Artist Opportunities
  • Creative Space Classifieds
  • Artist Voices
  • Useful Links
  • Fellows Notes

How Much Art Do You Give Away?

February 2, 2012 5 Comments

Artists and creative individuals are often asked (or decide) to make their work available for free. ArtSake guest blogger Bren Bataclan, for instance, gives away all of his Smile Boston Project paintings; playwright Charles Mee makes the full texts of his plays available online for other artists to "remake." Others might choose to not share any work without direct … [Read more...]

Going for the Gold

July 13, 2011 3 Comments

You might view the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan story as a key to understanding the scandal-devouring nature of American culture - a kind of tabloid Rosetta Stone. Or you might view it as an occasion to rock. In either case, you'd be right: Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera, returns the the A.R.T.'s Club Oberon in Cambridge for six performances July 18-21, 2011. In early … [Read more...]

Artist to Artist: Lise Haines and Elizabeth Searle, Part Two

March 2, 2011 6 Comments

In January, we shared the first half of a conversation between Lise Haines and Elizabeth Searle, where they talked about recent projects, like Lise's novel Girl in the Arena and Elizabeth's rock opera Tonya and Nancy, and otherwise explored the writing life and their life as writers. In this second part of the two-part conversation, they discuss new trajectories in their … [Read more...]

Artist to Artist: Lise Haines and Elizabeth Searle

January 18, 2011 4 Comments

Both authors have made careers of writing highly-acclaimed literary fiction; most recently, Lise Haines wrote Girl in the Arena and Elizabeth Searle wrote the novella and story collection Celebrities in Disgrace. And both authors find their creative lives veering in intriguing new trajectories — working with genres, forms, and subjects previously uncharted in their writing … [Read more...]

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Join our Artist News email list

Mass Cultural Council Gallery

View more than 3,000 works by Mass Cultural Council’s Artist Fellows & Finalists online

Categories

  • accessibility (35)
  • advocacy (55)
  • archival image (279)
  • art + science (21)
  • artist to artist (103)
  • artist voices (421)
  • arts business (104)
  • arts education (5)
  • arts law (10)
  • business of art (1)
  • call to artists (735)
  • ceramics (37)
  • communities (3)
  • conceptual art (17)
  • covid-19 (25)
  • crafts (141)
  • creative space (48)
  • crowdfunding (21)
  • cyber art (35)
  • dance (135)
  • digital art (1)
  • DIY (15)
  • documentary (5)
  • drawing (171)
  • emerging (7)
  • environmental art (89)
  • fellows notes (207)
  • fellowships (94)
  • fiber (4)
  • fiction (34)
  • film/video (252)
  • from the archives (6)
  • funding (282)
  • guest blogger (26)
  • honors (39)
  • installation art (154)
  • interview (103)
  • literature (382)
  • live-work space (1)
  • metalwork (4)
  • mixed media (92)
  • music (152)
  • nano-interview (88)
  • nonfiction (23)
  • open studios (37)
  • opera (4)
  • our events (44)
  • our exhibitions (56)
  • painting (259)
  • paper (7)
  • performance art (24)
  • philanthropy (6)
  • photography (211)
  • playwriting (19)
  • poetry (54)
  • professional development (109)
  • public art (101)
  • reading (7)
  • recent posts (778)
  • residencies (153)
  • screenwriting (20)
  • sculpture (156)
  • skills building (78)
  • storytelling (1)
  • studio views (63)
  • technology (1)
  • textile (8)
  • theater (181)
  • three stages (17)
  • tips (98)
  • traditional arts (47)
  • trends (122)
  • video (15)
  • visual arts (64)

Homepage banner artwork: Detail of "folding a season" (2016, acrylic on board, 27x24 in) by Ilana Manolson (Mass Cultural Council Painting Fellow ’08, ’18).

Copyright © 2023 · Mass Cultural Council

privacy policy · terms & conditions of use · access policy