by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Jan 27, 2022 | History News, The Profession
01.27.2022 Dan Blask, Program Officer Artist Fellowships From SOIL by Michael Sakamoto (Choreography Fellow ’22) Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the Fiscal Year 2022 Artist Fellowship awards in Choreography, Poetry, and Traditional Arts. The awards...
by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Jan 27, 2022 | History News, The Profession
01.27.2022 Cheyenne Cohn-Postell, Program Officer Diversity Equity and Inclusion A quarterly report on our anti-racism work Dot Art participant holding a rock painted with the words “You are beautiful as you are.” In October 2021, Mass Cultural Council launched a...
by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Jan 26, 2022 | History News, The Profession
01.26.2022 Bethann Steiner, Public Affairs Director Budget FY23 H. 2 budget represents Baker-Polito Administration’s highest investment in Mass Cultural Council Governor Charlie Baker today released his final spending proposal, H. 2, for Fiscal Year 2023. As a state...
by American Association for State and Local History | Jan 25, 2022 | Beyond the Commonwealth, History News, The Profession
This month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $24.7 million in grants for 208 humanities projects. “These NEH grants will support educators and scholars in enriching our understanding of the past and enable cultural...
by Massachusetts Cultural Council | Jan 25, 2022 | History News, The Profession
01.25.2022 Sara Glidden, Program Manager Cultural Investment Portfolio A family makes a project outside Cotuit Center for the Arts’ Art Bus. Cultural organizations across the Commonwealth are continuing to find innovative and creative solutions to connect with their...
by Arlington Historical Society | Jan 24, 2022 | Museums, The Kiosk
Doris Birmingham Needlework samplers, employed as an educational tool and a measure of female accomplishment, make their first appearance in England in the early 16th Century. Thus, English Colonists in America must have imported the skills to keep the craft alive in...
