If you watch the Mass Cultural Council's 40 Years of Fellowships videos, which tell the stories of some of the incredible artists we've funded since 1975, the over-arching story (as we see it, anyway) is that when a community supports artists, the impact is wide-ranging and profound. But the project also tells a parallel story: each video features music by a past MCC Music … [Read more...]
Art in Response to Art
It can be a slow burn or a lightning strike: the spark of an idea for a new work of art. Sometimes it starts when one artist experiences another artist's work, a journey as audience that leads to an exploration as creator. We're interested in art made in response to other art. So we asked artists, What are your experiences creating work inspired by - or that inspired the … [Read more...]
Gallery Glimpse: Shirish Korde
Your browser does not support the audio element. Today's glimpse from our gallery of past MCC fellows/finalists: renowned composer Shirish Korde (Music Composition Fellow '07) blends Western classical with Indian musical traditions in an excerpt from Svara-Yantra. … [Read more...]
New life for Speck and the Bandit Queen
Speck's Last in the Boston International Film Festival and Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen at the Boston University Tsai Center Last fall, we wrote about Speck's Last, Michael Dowling's (Playwriting Fellow '09) play-turned-screenplay-turned-short film (read about the work's origins and metamorphosis). The film had an initial screening at Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington … [Read more...]