Claudia Fiks has spent over two decades working in the arts and culture non-profit sector, acquiring invaluable entrepreneurial, management, fundraising and partnership development expertise that she’s put to good use as the founder of Arts Administration Association New England (AAANE). During the pandemic, the organization has given arts administrators the chance to network and share ideas on how to navigate the landscape of a region where each state has different guidelines and benchmarks to reopen– and close – in a field where lower occupancy numbers, ticketed and timed visits, and quarantined requirements for out-of-staters was exactly the opposite of their usual goal of working towards attracting as many visitors, customers and collectors as possible. Every Thursday at 4 p.m., since May, Fiks and co-host Alicia Chick, the development director at the Eliot School of Fine and Applied … [Read more...] about CORNERED: CLAUDIA FIKS
September/October 2020
Welcome: From Brian Goslow: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020
One of the things we all miss the most due to the pandemic is our one-on-one meetings at gallery and museum openings, whether with old friends or someone whose work screams out getting to know this person better. With everyone missing that regular communication, it seemed fitting, as the months add up, to include a series of “visits” to find out how people, regions and the business of art was getting on. Ron Fortier talked with three South Coast artists: David Baggarly on looking after his parents while recovering from a detached retina and back surgery that has kept him from his love of, and need to, paint and worrying about his wife, Abby, who works as a nurse; Jamaican-born, wheelchair bound Roy St. Christopher Rossow, who’s been working on commissioned and exhibition-bound works while reflecting on his life;Vermont-born, Dartmouth, Massachusetts-based Stephen Remick on putting … [Read more...] about Welcome: From Brian Goslow: SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020