• 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

What Makes for a Good Day Job as an Artist?

October 26, 2011 Leave a Comment

As an artist, is it better to earn your living in a field related to your creative work? Unrelated to your creative work? Solely through your creative work? In our conversations with artists, we've asked: What's the best/worst day job you've ever had? Artists' answers often provide insight to the conundrum of how to make money while thriving as an artist. Among some of … [Read more...]

Page to Screen

June 28, 2010 Leave a Comment

The National Endowment for the Arts has a nifty Writers' Corner page that lists movies adapted from the books of past NEA fellows. Authors like Sherman Alexie, Jane Smiley, and Tobias Wolff all received NEA support over the years, and at some point saw their work transformed for the silver screen. When I saw the list, I thought, cool, let's steal from the Feds. Well, … [Read more...]

Elizabeth Benedict on memoir and Michael Downing

January 13, 2010 Leave a Comment

On the Huffington Post's book page, author Elizabeth Benedict has written a thoughtful and probing review of Michael Downing's (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Finalist '08) memoir Life with Sudden Death (as you may recall, we interviewed Michael about the book on ArtSake). I enjoyed how the review deeply engages the book on its own terms. From the review: ... it's a compelling … [Read more...]

Michael Downing, writing for his life

October 27, 2009 Leave a Comment

What do you do when the discovery of a genetic heart condition threatens not only your life (its first symptom: sudden death) and your health (thanks to a string of medical disasters) but also the very authority to tell your own life story? If you're Michael Downing, whose memoir Life with Sudden Death has just been published, you address all threats with the same … [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 (273)
  • art + science (21)
  • artist to artist (102)
  • artist voices (419)
  • arts business (104)
  • arts education (5)
  • arts law (10)
  • call to artists (728)
  • ceramics (37)
  • communities (3)
  • conceptual art (17)
  • covid-19 (24)
  • crafts (140)
  • creative space (48)
  • crowdfunding (21)
  • cyber art (35)
  • dance (135)
  • digital art (1)
  • DIY (15)
  • documentary (5)
  • drawing (171)
  • emerging (7)
  • environmental art (88)
  • fellows notes (206)
  • fellowships (94)
  • fiber (4)
  • fiction (34)
  • film/video (252)
  • from the archives (6)
  • funding (279)
  • 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 (36)
  • 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 (100)
  • reading (7)
  • recent posts (765)
  • residencies (151)
  • 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