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Conversations | Artist Angeline Gragasin on the Art of Resiliency
How the COVID-19 pandemic forced AngeGragasin to take stock of her creative project, making it more sustainable in the long-term.
How the COVID-19 pandemic forced AngeGragasin to take stock of her creative project, making it more sustainable in the long-term.
Feature-length documentary investigates the Tulsa Race Massacre and will premiere on the anniversary of its centennial. As a journalist and filmmaker, Jonathan Silvers has spent a quarter of a century investigating war crimes and human rights violations around the globe, producing feature documentaries and investigative reports for PBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, BBC, and other broadcasters. In…
NYC Women’s Fund Recipient Amanda Gookin lends her expertise on the topic. Amanda Gookin is a cellist, educator, and administrator whose work is centered at the intersection of activism and music. She was recognized with a 2020 NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre grant in Classical/Jazz/Experimental/New Music. Her initiative, Forward Music Project (FMP),…
Insights for Writers from NYFA Board Member Alexandra Chasin. Alexandra Chasin is the author of two books of fiction and two books of nonfiction, including Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market (Palgrave…
Writers Ariana Brown, Francisco Gutierrez, and Marwa Helal define what it means to “do the work” and why it’s especially important now. As part of its ongoing effort to engage with literary artist communities in exciting new ways, NYFA Learning recently collaborated with PEN America to present “Doing the Work: Writers Coming Together in Times…
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