Wake up, hibernatin' creatures! May is a-flutter with news from past MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists: Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Film & Video '11) and Nicky Tavares (Film & Video '11) both received awards from the LEF Foundation's Spring 2012 Moving Image Fund. Janet Echelman (Crafts and Sculpture/Installation '09) and Nathalie Miebach (Sculpture/Installation '09) … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – September 11
In September, past MCC fellows/finalists venture into imagined flora, faraway lands, outer space, the impermanent, the temporary, and the nearly not. (For starters.) And now, we venture into our monthly round-up of the news of past awardees of our Artist Fellowships Program. Karen Aqua (Film & Video Fellow '11) will be honored by the Institute of Contemporary … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – April 11
Here's the latest installment of Fellows Notes, the current news of past fellows/finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. The April 1, 2011 weather may be a Fool's Day snow-prise, but the following list of April awards, honors, news, and announcements is pure sunshine. We're thrilled to share that Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro's (Playwriting Fellow '11) play Before I … [Read more...]
Sept. 20 Artist Fellowships Deadline Fast Approaching!
Composers, dramatic writers, and sculpture/installation artists: the deadline to apply for a 2011 Artist Fellowship in Music Composition, Playwriting, or Sculpture/Installation is this Monday, September 20, 2010 (this is a postmark deadline for mailed materials). In other words: there's still time! Read full program guidelines and apply - pronto, ASAP, and post haste. The … [Read more...]
Three Stages: Eric Henry Sanders
In Three Stages, we ask Massachusetts artists to shed light on their art-making process by focusing on three stages in the creative life of one work of art. Here, Eric Henry Sanders (Playwriting Fellow '09) discusses the evolution of his play Reservoir. Listen to a scene from Reservoir, performed by Company One Theatre. Directed by Shawn LaCount, with Fedna Jacquet as … [Read more...]