This week, the Commonwealth Reading Series continues at American Antiquarian Society, (Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 7 PM, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester MA). The series features MCC Artist Fellows/Finalists in literature. This event, like all events in the series, is free and open to the public. A brief sampling of work by Tuesday's featured writers and … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Feb 13
On the eve of the big storm, a blizzard of good news: Feb's notes and honors from MCC Artist Fellows & Finalists. Recent MCC awardee Caitlin O'Neil reviews George Rosen's short story collection The Immanence of God in the Tropics for Ploughshares: "he writes with such stark, unadorned clarity that distant places snap into focus." Sophia Ainslie has a solo show, in … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Sept 12
It's a back to school edition of Fellows Notes. Curriculum includes Emily Dickinson, Boston history, woodshop, and other recent works (and news) from past MCC Fellows and Finalists... Sophia Ainslie and Mary Bucci McCoy are included in the exhibition XXX: Kingston Gallery Annual Members' Exhibition, celebrating thirty years as an artist run gallery (9/5-9/30, opening … [Read more...]
How Do You Choose Your Titles?
I made it. Now what do I call it? We've been exploring issues artists encounter in their work, and we recently asked artists in different disciplines: How do you choose your titles? Paul Endres, Jr, painter Being a painter in a digital age is, at least in part, a contradiction. Many artists might also suggest that providing titles to their visually-based art is also a … [Read more...]
Kathryn Burak on Writing, Unwasted Effort, Vampire Dickinson
Tuesday, March 15 (7 PM at Porter Square Books in Cambridge) marks the first event in the 2011 Commonwealth Reading Series, a schedule of readings by Fellows/Finalists from our Artist Fellowships Program. So, first: Woo hoo! This series is like a warm front of exciting writers rushing into a cold (as in super-cool) front of great reading environments, producing a veritable … [Read more...]