Senate Ways & Means Budget Proposes Level Funding for Massachusetts Cultural Council (Boston, MA) Today the Senate Ways & Means Committee released a proposed budget for the coming fiscal year that would provide level funding for the arts, humanities, and sciences through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC).The Senate panel recommended $9.25 million for the MCC in...
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Nida Art Colony invites artists, designers, architects, curators, and art researchers to experience the Winter and Spring on the Baltic Sea coast in the Curonian Spit National Park, Lithuania. Call for residency applications Baltic-Nordic residencies October–December 2012 and international residencies January–May 2013 Nida Art Colony (NAC) welcomes proposals for its upcoming winter residencies. Two...
Read more →The Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) released a new plan that aims to rebuild public support for the nonprofit arts, humanities, and sciences over five years through collective advocacy and reinvestment in the nonprofit cultural sector. The MCC’s five-year strategic plan is the fruit of conversations with hundreds of its constituents through four public forums,...
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Key Leaders of Worcester’s Arts Community (Boston, MA) Governor Deval Patrick today announced the appointment of Joyce Kressler and Troy Siebels—two highly accomplished leaders of the Worcester arts community—to the Board of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. “Joyce Kressler and Troy Siebels have each played a central role in fostering the creative economy in Worcester,”...
Read more →First Meeting with Leaders MASSCreative is poised to build a powerful grassroots network of local cultural councils, arts and cultural institutions, artists, educators and arts advocates across Massachusetts. Your Community will benefit- Join in a Bristol County Conversation Promote your community - Learn from others Tuesday, May 15th, from 4:00-5:30pm The Dedee Shattuck Gallery 1...
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Update on the Creative Economy Council – 1st meeting is May 17th. First thank you to everyone who sent well wishes about my recent appointment to the Massachusetts Creative Economy Council. The first 2012 full meeting of the CEC is Thursday, May 17th 3pm at 1 Ashburton Place, 21st Floor, Conference Room 3, Boston,...
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The Arts Education Partnership is pleased to announce the release of ArtsEdSearch.org — the nation’s first online research and policy clearinghouse that documents the educational outcomes of arts learning for students and teachers. A first-of-its kind, ArtsEdSearch™ grew out of a need for high quality, centrally located, and user-friendly information on the essential role the arts play...
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In 2008, five nationally recognized youth arts organizations gathered around “a common desire to measure and share, with each other as well as our funders, what we believed was happening in our studios.” In April, the result of their thousands of hours of research, discussions, experimentation, and analysis were released in two volumes: The Boston...
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