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Last Chance: Apply to NYFA’s Boot Camp for the Performing Arts

Applications due midnight tonight! Open to performing artists (including music, dance and choreography, performance art, and theater arts [acting, producing, directing, playwrights, etc]) based in the New York City Tri-state area (within commuting distance), NYFA’s Boot Camp for the Performing Arts will provide intensive professional development training over five Mondays in November.  Find out more…

Fellows at 30: Zoe Beloff

“I had come to the realization that my ideas didn’t fit into any known category”  This year marks the 30th anniversary of NYFA’s Artists’ Fellowship Program. To continue our 30th anniversary interview series we checked-in with two-time fellow in Computer Arts Zoe Beloff. Zoe works with a variety of media including installation, performance, film, and…

NYFA Artists’ Events in October

Readings, exhibitions, and book launches… With October right around the corner we are happy to share some of our NYFA Fellows’ upcoming events. Check out the list below to make sure you don’t miss out on these amazing exhibitions, performances and presentations! Gregory Pardlo (Fellow in Poetry ‘05) Will be reading at the Brattleboro Literary…

Artists: This Is What You Need to Know About Gallerists

Just like any other relationship, it grows and evolves and is a process that is ultimately beneficial for both parties. On September 21 2015, Asya Geisberg, Founder and Owner of Asya Geisberg Gallery in Chelsea, spoke to a packed room of artists at NYFA’s offices about the relationship between artists and gallerists. We attended the…

Conversations: Susan Karwoska Interviews Bill Cheng

“Blues is a kind of art form that is without boundaries; it doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from—if you’re ready to receive it, it can change how you see.” Bill Cheng is the author of Southern Cross the Dog (Ecco Press, 2013).  His fiction has appeared and been collected in Guernica, The Book…