Artists’ Practice

February Artist Updates A glimpse into what our past and present Creative Entrepreneur Fellows and Walter Feldman Fellows have been working on.     Daniel Callahan’s (CEF ‘21) film Come On In has been picked up for distribution by Gravitas Ventures and will be released on February 8. www.danielcallahan.com         Julia Csekö (WFF ‘16) is currently an artist in residence at Sculpture Space…

Anthony Peyton Young (Feldman 2019) is one of the ARTery 25 Artists of Color this year. His series They Have Names is a collage of portraits presenting Black lives cut short by white violence.     Ngoc-Tran Vu’s (CEF 2019) exhibition My Lightwork: A Journey to Honor My Ancestors, Culture, and Memories is on view through December 10 at Regis College.        …

Sarah Brent (Walter Feldman Fellow 2015) and three other artists will present their works at the Chase Young Gallery Summer Group Show from August 4th to September 25th. In addition, a number of Sarah's small works are on view at the Coastal Contemporary Gallery as part of their Summer Salon.       Jeanne Ciravolo (Feldman 2020) work has recently been exhibited in Semblance at Manifest Gallery…

Learn what some of our Creative Entrepreneur Fellows and Walter Feldman Fellows have been up to recently! Julia Csekö (Feldman 2016) became part of 2021 Somerville Arts Council Fellowship and was awarded a Somerville Museum Community Curator Grant 2021-2022. She also plans to install a large public piece as her community benefit for the Somerville Arts Council Fellowship in partnership with Somerville Homeless Coalition. www.juliacseko.com…

Tim Hall is known around the Boston music scene as a man who does it all. Given the opportunity to reflect on his artistry during the pandemic, Tim is ready to rediscover himself as an artist. The Detroit native and Boston-based musician holds an impressive series of titles; he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Professional Music Department at Berklee College of Music, the…

Zack Chomz is a Boston-based artist who works in painting and new media. He is also one of our 2020 Walter Feldman Fellows. We are excited to share an excerpt of the conversation we had with Zack on November 24, 2020. Natalie: Could you introduce yourself? Zack: My name is Zack Chomz. I was born in Massachusetts and am currently based in Boston. I think…

Bithyah Israel is a composer, cellist, and the founder of City Strings, a youth cello ensemble that provides free musical opportunities for youth in the Boston area. She is also the Social Justice Fellow for the Arts and Humanities with the UU Urban Ministry. We got to speak with Bithyah about her compositional process, the inspiration behind City Strings, and her time as an Arts &…

For some, the case of COVID-19 has invited the joys of simple existence, by encouraging us to redefine, realign, and spend some time at home with a good book. In a lot of ways, it’s back to basics, like when we were children. Stacking the alphabet cubes to spell out a word feels a lot like our current pandemic: make what you know and watch…