“You have this new persona that you can present to people and they will believe it. Like ‘Yeah, this is me!’” Immigrant Artist Program (IAP) Mentor Valentina Medda arrived in New York in 2009/10 through a scholarship from the Italian government to study at the International Center for Photography (ICP). After an almost three-year return…
Are you currently receiving our free Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter? Highlights from this month’s issue include: Our Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Alumni interview featuring mentor/mentee pairing of Jonathan S. Cerullo and Andrei Nikolai Pamintuan. A feature on NYFA’s Fiscal Sponsorship program, allowing individual artists and emerging arts organizations in all disciplines the ability to raise funds…
“Theater will outlive every one of us. You pass it on from one generation to the next generation and so on.” The IAP Mentoring Program is a vital part of NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program, which pairs immigrant artists working in all disciplines with artist mentors. They provide mentees with one-on-one support and guide them to…
NYFA’s Immigrant Artists’ Program (IAP) is always on the lookout for programs supporting the creative immigrant community. As such, when in 2014 Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Jimmy Van Bramer, Majority Leader and Chair of Cultural Affairs and Libraries Committee, announced the creation of cultural funding and the development of fresh cultural initiatives in New York City,…
“I feel like I will always have a dialect in my music, a different perspective on it.” As part of our Immigrant Artist Program (IAP), the IAP Mentoring Program pairs immigrant artists working in all disciplines with artist mentors who provide one-on-one support and guide mentees to achieve specific goals, such as composing an artist statement,…
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