Announcing the Recipients of the 4th Annual MALC Champion of Artists Awards!
For the fourth time, MALC will be awarding its Champion of Artists Awards as part of the 13th Annual Artists Under the Dome event on November 18th, at the Massachusetts State House. These awards are given by MALC to honor those who have shown exceptional support of the artists community.
This year’s awardees in alphabetical order:
- Blair Benjamin – Fiction Writer, Director of MassMoCA’s Studio Residency Program and Founder & Director of Assets for Artists (A4A)
- Kay Bourne – Journalist, Editor, and Educator
- Greg Liakos -Writer, Journalist and former Director of Communications and External Relations for the Mass Cultural Council (This award is given in memory of State Representative Chris Walsh)
- Abe Rybeck – Playwright, Organizational Consultant, and Founder of The Theater Offensive (TTO)
- Lisa Simmons – Filmmaker, Director and Curator of the Roxbury Film Festival, and Founder of the Color of Film Collaborative (This award is given in memory of MALC Co-Founder Liora Beer)
The Artists Under the Dome event runs from 9:30am to 1pm, with speakers from the Mass Cultural Council, MASSCreative, Mass Artists Leaders Coalition, state legislators and the executive branch. The awards ceremony begins at 11:00am in the State House’s Great Hall, located on the second floor. This ceremony, along with all the events of the annual Artists Under the Dome event, are free and open to the public. Massachusetts is the only state in the country to have such an event!
Although it is not required, we are urging people to RSVP for the event.
For more information: http://artistsunderthedome.org/annualevent.html
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