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 with an image, or a memory, or a misheard fragment of speech. Or it may start when one artist experiences another artist's work, a journey of imagination as an art audience that leads to an exploration as creator. We're interested in art made in response to other … [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...]