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Institute’s Andrade-Watkins Using Grant to Advance Film Storytelling
Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Professor Claire Andrade-Watkins recently received a three-year grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA).
Andrade-Watkins is one of three artists who will receive $6,000 annually for three years.
The RISCA panel praised Andrade-Watkins:
“This artist is very clear about what she wants to accomplish and has worked a long time to prepare for this next step in her practice. Her personal story clearly and directly relates to her artistic vision and voice and shows a through line of this artist’s career…The panel was impressed by her use of archival footage and thinking about creating her documentary films in a multidisciplinary way…”
Read the full announcement here: https://today.emerson.edu/2024/11/13/institutes-andrade-watkins-using-grant-to-advance-film-storytelling/
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“One of Claire’s unique strengths is that she speaks for a community and to a community that most of New England doesn’t know much about… Andrade-Watkins has a gift for finding the right subjects to interview, people who are naturals in front of the camera, with interesting things to say. ”
Carter Long, curator of film and video at the MFA
“One of Claire’s unique strengths is that she speaks for a community and to a community that most of New England doesn’t know much about… Andrade-Watkins has a gift for finding the right subjects to interview, people who are naturals in front of the camera, with interesting things to say.”
Carter Long, curator of film and video at the MFA
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