WORCESTER The Mass Cultural Council has chosen Caitlin McCarthy and Shrish Korde, both of Worcester, among Massachusetts artists who will each receive $15,000 2021 Artist Fellowship Awards.
The awards are for exceptional work in the disciplines of Crafts, Dramatic Writing, Film & Video, Music Composition, Photography, and Sculpture/Installation/New Genres.
McCarthy, who received a fellowship award in the Dramatic Writing category, has written several award-winning screenplays. She said she submitted her crime thriller A Native Land for fellowship consideration. In A Native Land, a Black Native American cop battles local prejudice, personal troubles, and her own police force while trying to unmask a serial killer on the loose. I was inspired to write A Native Land because I am of Métis descent through my Huron (Wendat)/Abenaki/French Canadian ancestry McCarthy said.
By Livia Gershon
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Students, faculty and staff wanting to participate in upcoming semesters must now be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at Worcester schools the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
The three join Anna Maria College in Paxton, each of the state s public university campuses, including Fitchburg, Framingham and Worcester state universities, and MCPHS University, which has a campus in downtown Worcester. Community colleges, including Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner and Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester have said they won t require vaccines, not wanting to worsen potential health inequities among members of its campuses.
Clark President David Fithian made the announcement of the vaccine requirement on Thursday in a letter to the campus community, saying everyone had to show their proof of vaccination by July 15.