Welcome to the 15th anniversary issue of Artscope Magazine. Pulling together a group of strangers from around New England and turning them into a working arts community is not an easy goal, but it’s one that publisher Kaveh Mojtabai set out to do back in 2006. We are here, 91 issues later, thousands of formed friendships and professional partnerships later, hopefully about to navigate our way out of the pandemic of our lifetime that upended not only plans for the near future, but many of our lives. These are challenging times, indeed; at a recent Arts Administration Association New England “Sip and Chat,” Catherine Peterson, executive director of ArtsBoston, said she feared that half of its current member organizations wouldn’t make it to the other side of the pandemic. The latest estimate on museums nationwide suggests that up to a third may not reopen their doors. Throughout the … [Read more...] about Welcome: From Brian Goslow, March/April 2021