Featured Artist: Grace Jahng Lee Born stateless on a U.S. military base in Seoul, Grace Jahng Lee is a writer of prose and poetry. Fragmented lives, memory, metaphorical border crossings, and the search for home are central themes in her writing, which is inspired by transmigratory experiences growing up on four continents. Her writing centralizes…
Introducing Judy Cai, NYFA Program Associate, Asian Affairs. New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has the great pleasure of introducing Judy Cai, Program Associate, Asian Affairs. Judy joins NYFA to assist on upcoming programs involving the Chinese arts and cultural sector and to initiate outreach into local Asian communities. For our Chinese audience, Judy has developed…
Special Report: NYFA Profitable Artist Boot Camp in Dublin This month’s Immigrant Artist newsletter focuses on a special event that continued NYFA’s work fostering communities abroad through our first professional development program in Dublin, Ireland. The Profitable Artists Boot Camp was presented in collaboration with the Centre for Creative Practices (CFCP), the only arts centre…
Special Report: From Guatemala to New York, Straight to Pangea Tania Molina de Castellanos, intern in NYFA Curatorial and Fellowships discusses with IAP her experience coming from Guatemala City to New York City begining September 2013. I met the nice people from NYFA in March 2013 when they visited Guatemala for an intensive three-day boot…
Special Report: Immigrant Artist Program @ DUMBO and Governor’s Island Since its inception in 2007, NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program (IAP) has served more than 100 artists through its Mentoring Program covering a range of disciplines from visual and performing to literary and multi-disciplinary to folk and traditional arts. This fall the Immigrant Artist Program is highlighted at…
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