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NYFA Presents: PEN America Reading with Abeer Hoque, Lisa Ko, Sarah Schulman, and Joan Silber

NYFA and PEN America present a reading featuring NYFA Literary Fellows and PEN America Members. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of NYFA’s Artists’ Fellowship program, this event will bring together writers whose NYFA Fellowship helped foster their creative work. Now established in their writing careers, these Fellows are all Professional Members of PEN America,…

Highlights from the June IAP Newsletter #82

Are you currently receiving our free Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter? Here are the highlights for this month’s issue: An interview conducted by NYFA IAP Intern Allison Ganes with a few of the panelists of Mapping Resources for Immigrant Artists, hosted by the Museum of Chinese in America and organized by the Asian American…

Save The Date: #ArtistHotline Returns July 20

Join our Artist Professional Development Day on the third Wednesday of every month. Mark your calendar for the next Twitter chat: Wednesday, July 20, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM. Thank you to everyone who participated in June’s #ArtistHotline! It’s been a fantastic year for this initiative and we’re happy to see our Twitter chat growing…

Pride Month Spotlight: NYFA-Affiliated Artists and LGBTQIA+ Activism

NYFA-affiliated artists are making change with their work. In his recent essay, “I Found A Home In Clubs Like Pulse In Cities Like Orlando,” Rigoberto González (Fellow in Poetry ‘11) describes how he and his friends found something of a sanctuary in Latino gay clubs and in Latin Night: We know, we have always known,…

Creative Careers Job Round-Up: Curator Edition

Do you view an empty room and white walls as a blank canvas?  Are you an art buff with an eye for organizing a collection of works into something cohesive but also inspiring? If so, you may be headed down the well regarded curator path. The number of curator positions has exploded in the last…