Massachusetts Artists Leaders Coalition
Artists leaders and artist-run groups addressing policy issues that affect artists in Massachusetts
We’d like to introduce you to the concepts presented in two reports that show the win-win possibilities of creative placemaking – when residents, nonprofits, artists of all disciplines, developers, and local government work together to invigorate neighborhoods using “local creative assets as drivers of change…that served as a bulwark against the displacement that sometimes occurs when …
Based on the latest data, France, with a population of 66.8 million people, federally funds music at $307 million. England (population 53 million) federally funds music at $53 million. The U.S., with a population of 321.4 million, spends just $8 million for music federally, and the Trump administration proposes cutting that to zero. Pitchfork, the …
Boston’s New Artist Fellowship deadline has been extended to July 17th The City of Boston will offer five fellowship awards, each worth $10,000 in 2017. Awards will be distributed across artistic disciplines, and the number of awards per discipline will vary according to the applications received and the recommendations of the review panel. Awards will …
Worth the watch! Dr. Barbara Lewis, Director of the Trotter Institute at UMass Boston, gives a wonder talk about African American Poet Phillis Wheatley: “Professor Barbara Lewis talked about the time in which poet Phillis Wheatley lived. She spoke about Boston’s treatment of slaves and Phillis Wheatley’s standing in her master’s household. She also looked …