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Conversations | Leslie Li’s “The Kim Loo Sisters”

“It was no small feat to break out of the ‘chop suey circuit’ and share top billing on the Broadway stage and the Hollywood screen with Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller, Jackie Gleason and The Three Stooges, particularly at a time in America when there was strong anti-Asian sentiment.” They are Alice, Maggie, Jenée, and Bubbles—the…

Event | First Thursday Gallery Walk

Early fall is the perfect time to check out DUMBO’s monthly First Thursday Gallery Walk, taking place Thursday, October 5, 2017, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. NYFA invites you to join us for DUMBO’s First Thursday Gallery Walk on October 5. On the first Thursday of every month, the galleries of DUMBO stay open late,…

Highlights from the IAP Newsletter #97

Are you currently receiving our free Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter? Here are this month’s highlights: An interview conducted by Alicia Ehni with Boshko Boskovic, Program Director of Residency Unlimited. Featured event Open House New York Weekend, which unlocks the doors of New York’s most important buildings.  21 opportunities for artists, including various grants offered…

Event | A Conversation with David Henry Hwang and Julie Taymor

This free public event will take place on Monday, October 30 at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. Join New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) on Monday, October 30 for a special conversation between David Henry Hwang (Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting ‘85) and Julie Taymor (Fellow in Performance Art/Emergent Forms ‘89). Taymor is directing the first Broadway revival of…

Apply Now | 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is a $7,000 unrestricted cash award open to individual and collaborative artists living and working in New York State. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is offered in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year cycle period. The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship is not a project grant; it is intended to fund an artist’s vision…