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Beyond the Commonwealth
Festivals and Projects Grant Programs are Combining
08.24.2022 Kalyn King, Program Officer and Timothea Pham, Program Officer Festivals & Projects Zumix Concert Series, East Boston During the past few years, virtual festivals, outdoor performances, pop-up markets, self-guided tours, and socially-distant...
Youth Arts Leader’s Film Explores Representation in CYD
08.23.2022 Amy Chu, Program Officer Creative Youth Development Artist Rajaiah Jones on set for her film, Representation: Seen & Heard With an eye towards supporting systemic change, Mass Cultural Council’s Creative Youth Development (CYD) team has recently...
New Experiences at the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference
You can register onsite for “Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place,” AASLH’s Annual Conference, which will be held in Buffalo, New York, September 14-17. We’re always looking to improve and innovate the Annual Conference each year. Here are the new experiences...
Westborough Center Pastimes – August 19, 2022
Film still from “Citizen Kane.” Ironies of History and Collecting We often bemoan change. We mourn when an old building is torn down and replaced with a new one. We pause and reflect when we learn that the last person who lived through an important event passes away,...
Everyone Their Own Historian
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis It is now more than ninety years since Carl Becker delivered his presidential address to the American Historical Association. “Everyman His Own Historian” has since become the most cited AHA talk, and its thesis still resonates in the...
Small Museum Luncheon Program: Representing Indigenous History Through the Power of Place
The interior furnishings of the Sachem’s House in Nowashe Village.By Julia Gray, Wilson Museum, Castine, ME and Small Museums Affinity Committee At this year’s Small Museums Luncheon at the AASLH Annual Conference on Thursday, September 15, at 12:30, we are excited to...
Artist Fellowships Paused for 2023 Grant Cycle
08.16.2022 Dan Blask, Program Manager Artist Fellowships Andrae Green’s (Painting Finalist ’22), DIVERS II (2021), oil and acrylic on canvas, 36x48in. Mass Cultural Council plans to pause its Artist Fellowships program for the current grant cycle (Fiscal Year 2023)....
2022 AASLH Council Election Results
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Council sets policy and provides leadership for the association, is responsible for strategic planning, and represents AASLH members and the field at large. Members vote for those who serve on Council. We...
Episode 336: Vanessa Holden, Surviving the Southampton Rebellion
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/336_Holden_v2.mp3 What did it take to stage a successful slave uprising? Over the course of the early republic, we see a few violent slave uprisings in the United States. A particularly brutal rebellion took...
Explore Civics at the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference
There’s a strong connection between history and civics. The state of New York, home to this year’s AASLH Annual Conference, has many historic organizations and places connected to civics, from the Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester to the Harriet Tubman...
We Are Not in the Least Defeated
The theme of this year’s AASLH Annual Conference is Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place. Gathering in Buffalo is more powerful because the place of this year’s conference is the place of the tragic events of May 14, when lives were senselessly targeted and lost...
2022 AASLH Annual Conference Pre-Registration Deadline is August 19
Are you planning to attend the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference next month? Now is the time to register! This year’s conference offers: More than 60 learning sessions in nine engaging formats Evening events in Buffalo’s most unique places A town hall that will address how...
Barr Foundation Supports Expand Mass. Stories
Two-year, $700K grant is largest in Mass Humanities’ history. Mass Humanities has received a two-year, $700,000 grant from the Barr Foundation for Expand Massachusetts Stories (EMS), an initiative aimed at generating more inclusive histories of the people and ideas...
Racial Equity Progress Report (June – Aug ’22)
08.10.2022 Cheyenne Cohn-Postell, Program Officer Diversity Equity and Inclusion A quarterly report on our anti-racism work Child participates in Brand Out with C1, an event hosted by Company One Theatre In 2021, Mass Cultural Council launched a three-year Racial...
Apply for Cultural Sector Recovery Grants
08.08.2022 Bethann Steiner, Public Affairs Director COVID-19 | Cultural Sector Recovery Grants More than $51M available to support ongoing pandemic recovery needs A performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Apollinaire Theatre Company. Today Mass Cultural Council...
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