The Creative Grind
It has been one year since the pandemic began. In this series, ARTery reporters spoke to individual creatives to assess the financial and artistic impact of COVID-19, on a granular level, in the Boston area.
The Pandemic Surfaces New Cross-Cultural Themes For This Painter
Through self-portraits and portraits of the women she’s closest to, Shabnam Jannesari explores how the Iranian patriarchy censors women. But in the past year, she had to adjust her artistic...
How A Piano Tuner Is A Barometer For Boston's Battered Music Scene
Over the years Fred Mudge has toted his tool kit to venues big, medium and small including TD Garden, Fenway Park, the House of Blues and the Berklee Performance Center....
After The Pandemic Shut Down His Recording Studio, He Had An Epiphany
The musician and producer International Show was lucky to be able to reopen his Weymouth studio in May. But the pandemic made him rethink his priorities.
Painting Black Skin, An Artist Navigates Success And Loss In A Pandemic Year
In a year of widespread hardship, painter Marla McLeod found unexpected professional success amid her private grief.
'Damn, I Have No Money': Musician Sonni Mai On A Year Without Her Music
It's been a year since the pandemic began. In the first installment of the ARTery series, "The Creative Grind," singer Sonni Mai shares the financial and creative impact COVID-19 has...
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