Spotlight
Recipient of Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals
anna leigh clem
Mar 4, 2025
Summary
I am excited to announce that I am a recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals for my series The Perennial Garden.
I am beyond grateful for this moment of recognition and affirmation. As I have been told by my artist parents, teachers, and mentors, building a career in the arts is a slow, unpaved path. Sometimes it feels impossible, but today I feel seen.
The Perennial Garden: With my childhood sanctuary literally razed and replaced, I find myself returning there in my mind, and in my work, searching for what has been lost in adulthood. By excavating remembered stories, dreams, family photographs and found objects, I have found that underneath the layers lies a deep desire for the refuge and freedom of imagination that I thought I would always have.
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