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Mass Cultural Council Seeks $28M in the FY26 State Budget

Mass Cultural Council Seeks $28M in the FY26 State Budget

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 11, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.11.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Budget Mass Cultural Council, the Commonwealth’s independent state arts agency, is primarily funded each year through the Commonwealth’s General Appropriations Act, often referred to as the annual state...
Sharon McMahon — The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Sharon McMahon — The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

by Massachusetts History Alliance | Dec 11, 2024 | History News

Sharon McMahonFrom the Publisher: In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the...
What’s the Mass Leads Act Got for the Cultural Sector?

What’s the Mass Leads Act Got for the Cultural Sector?

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 10, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.10.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Yvonne Hao, Secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development and member of our governing Council, speaks at a ceremonial bill signing event for the Mass Leads Act in Cambridge. In March Governor...
Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment

Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment

by American Association for State and Local History | Dec 9, 2024 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession

By Joan H. Baldwin Decades ago, when I was offered my first job as a county historical society director, I felt like the saint of neglected objects. I worked in the proverbial privileged, white person, helping a wealth of things speak in new ways. Along the way, I’d...
Looking to Develop Artist Space? Get Early Advice from a Code Consultant.

Looking to Develop Artist Space? Get Early Advice from a Code Consultant.

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 6, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.06.2024 Jay Paget, Program Director Artist Space | Mass Cultural Facilities Fund Mother Brook Art & Community Center, Dedham (former Avery School) Mass Cultural Council has a suite of resources to help with the acquisition, design, and build-out of creative...
Massachusetts Ranks 3rd in the Nation for Arts Vibrancy

Massachusetts Ranks 3rd in the Nation for Arts Vibrancy

by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Dec 5, 2024 | History News, The Profession

12.05.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Today Mass Cultural Council celebrates news of the Commonwealth’s two-year stretch as the 3rd most arts-vibrant state in the nation, as ranked by SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research. In the...
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