Jun
16

Food for thought: Breakfast June 24

The Dorchester Arts Collaborative invites you to join us on Friday, June 24, 2011, 8 a.m. to  9:30 a.m., for a continental breakfast featuring writer Aaron Devine, at Studio D., 11 Pearl Street, Dorchester, Mass.

The topic is: "Empathy and The Other"

Aaron notes that as artists we are compelled to render the world and its diverse realities. The Other is any person or place unknown to us. And empathy is our human faculty to reach outside the self and understand The Other. Both are wellsprings, elemental to great art. Where does empathy come from? Can it be developed? How do artists truly represent what lies outside their own background or culture? In this workshop, we will fuel a discussion of empathy and The Other using examples from photography, painting, and literature. Participants are welcome and encouraged to bring in their own examples – from any medium – that resonate with this topic. We will also follow a writing prompt that exercises our ability to empathize. Contact the workshop leader, Aaron: aajamde@yahoo.com
 
DAC members $5; non-members $8.

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May
16

Time to save money: Register for Open Studios NOW!

OK. We get it. We're artists, writers, actors, dreamers. Our favorite thing to do,  besides create wonderful things, is to procrastinate. But here's incentive to stop, right now! The June 15, 2011, early bird registration deadline for the Dorchester Arts Collaborative's Open Studios is quickly approaching. Want to save money on registration? (Hey, with the gas prices, who doesn't want to save money?) Want to see your name on our materials? (Your friends will be really impressed.) Stop procrastinating. Register now. :-) One less thing to worry about putting off, right?

Open Studios will take place Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, 2011. Read the great coverage we got for last year's event in the Boston Globe. 

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May
08

Dac breakfast, May 13

The Dorchester Arts Collaborative invites you to join us on Friday, May 13, 2011, 8 a.m. to  9:30 a.m., for a branding/marketing exercise, at Studio D., 11 Pearl Street, Dorchester, Mass. Come and ask questions about how your creative work affects people, how unique it is, who your audience is, how to better pitch your work and the best places to market it. Get answers and guidelines.
Bring up to five samples of your work for the group. Get feed back. Give feed back– anonymously!–via a survey/questionaire.  The excercise will be led by Pat Burson, painter and Arts & Business Counsel ToolBox Fellow, DAC board member, and DAC Breakfast facilitator. Please RSVP now to  patricia@bursonstudios.com.

 

$5 for members for coffee, tea, fruit and pasteries.
$8 non-members.

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May
02

Write on!

Locals, get to know your writers. Writers, get to know your locals. Join your fellow literary aficionados on Tuesday, May 3rd at the first "Write on the DOT" reading of poetry and fiction by UMass Boston Creative Writing MFA students and local Dorchester writers. The reading kicks off at 7 p.m. at The Blarney Stone Bar/Restaurant in Fields Corner (1505 Dorchester Ave., 1 block from the Fields Corner T Stop on the Ashmont Red Line). Come raise a glass and join your neighbors as our readers unfurl beauty and darkness, ideas and inspiration. Tuesday's readers are: Rad Thie, Kurt Klopmeier, Andra Hibbert, Betsy Gomez, Zachary Bos, and Mark Rotondi. If you're a writer living/working in Dorchester and would like to read at an upcoming Write on the DOT, please send an email to dotreadingseries@gmail.com – we'd love to hear from you. For more info, visit http://www.writeonthedot.blogspot.com/.

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May
01

Grants for arts writers

 

GRANTS FOR ARTS WRITERS

Online application form opens:
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Application deadline:
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

http://www.artswriters.org

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program supports individual writers whose work addresses contemporary visual art through grants ranging from 3,000 to 50,000 USD.

Writers who meet the program’s eligibility requirements are invited to apply in the following categories:

  • Articles
  • Blogs
  • Books
  • New and Alternative Media
  • Short-Form Writing

Due to legal constraints we can only fund U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and holders of O-1 visas. For guidelines and additional eligibility requirements, please visit www.artswriters.org/guidelines.html.

Art Writing Workshop
In partnership with the International Association of Art Critics/USA Section, the Arts Writers Grant Program offers applicants consultations with leading art critics. For more information, please visit http://www.aicausa.org.

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