Highlights from the September IAP Newsletter #85

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Here are the highlights from this month’s issue: 

• A featured interview conducted by our intern, Priscilla Son, with Daniel Gallant, Executive Director of Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
• 18 opportunities and deadlines including Culture Push’s Fellowship for Utopian Practice, a year-long fellowship seeking projects that engage with people, places, and institutions in NYC to create social change; the NYC Art in Parks: UNIQLO Park Expressions Grant, which will develop 10 new destination parks with rotating rosters of public art created by NYC-based emerging artists; and NYC borough-based grants such as the 2017 Staten Island Arts Grants and the Queens Art Fund Grants.
• Our congratulations to Jesse Chun (IAP ‘16) for having her solo exhibition, On Paper, as Critic’s Pick for Artforum; the announcement of Neil Rolnick’s (IAP ‘11, ‘13) string quartet Oceans Eat Cities inclusion in the Human Impact Institute’s Creative Climate Awards exhibition; Mersiha Mesihovic’s (IAP ‘14, ‘16 Social Practice) BOSNIANBORN *SHE IS A REFUGEE STAR* performance featured in Feet in 2 World’s Dream City series’ podcasts; and other IAP Alumni news.
• September’s Featured Subscriber, Crystal w.m. Chan.
• 8 featured job opportunities around the country from NYFA Classifieds.
• And more!

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Image: Crystal w.m. Chan, HB, 2012, oil on canvas