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2010 MCC Fellowship Applications Now Accepted

Artist Fellowships Applications in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry Now Accepted

Greetings. Fellowship deadlines for Choreography, Fiction/Creative nonfiction, and Poetry are approaching, but there is still pleny of time to apply. Applications are accepted from December 12, 2009 through January 25, 2010.

The Artist Fellowships provide grants of $7,500 and finalist awards of $500 in recognition of exceptional original work. The number of awards per discipline category varies according to the number of applications reviewed, the recommendations of each panel, and program funds available.

Go to the Mass Cultural Council’s website for guidelines and application forms. Good luck!

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ArtMorpheus is for You!

Monday, December 7, 2009

Download the flyer (pdf)
Download the flyer (pdf)

5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA

Welcome! ArtMorpheus is a monthly roundtable discussion for artists of all disciplines where networking, resources, and personal experiences are shared by working artists in all disciplines. That means you, of course.

For complete information please download the ArtMorpheus PDF flyer. And for further preparation, you may want to read the 2009 MA Artists Report (pdf), particularly pages 21 – 29.

Please see the flyer to RSVP.

See you all there!

NEA Live Webcast – Cultural Workforce Forum

National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS LIVE WEBCAST OF ITS CULTURAL WORKFORCE FORUM ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The public is invited to watch a discussion of how art works as part of the real economy

On Friday, November 20, 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) will present a live webcast on www.arts.gov of a forum about America’s artists and other cultural workers who are part of this country’s real economy. Academics, foundation professionals, and service organization representatives will come together to discuss improving the collection and reporting of statistics about arts and cultural workers, and to develop future research agendas and approaches (more…)

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