A. Elizabeth BergA $500,000 grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art will allow the institution to expand its artist-in-residency programs for visual and performing arts. Artists-in-residence in the performing arts have full use of expansive rehearsal and production spaces, scalable stages, workshop spaces with mirrored walls and sprung floors, art fabrication facilities and more. Nooshig VarjabedianOver the past 20 years, more than 3000 artists working on over 160 projects have put MASS MoCA’s unique assets to use. This grant supports the continuation of MASS MoCA’s Confluence Artist Residency Program, which bridges the visual and performing arts. These residencies serve to advance deep programmatic collaborations between visual and performing artists, encouraging the expansion of their practices in new interdisciplinary ways.

Source: Forbes December 16, 2020 15:57 UTC