Featured Artist: Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao is a photographer who grew up in Taiwan, attended highschool in Canada, and finally arrived in New York City to complete his undergraduate degree at Pratt and his MFA at the School of Visual Arts. For his MFA thesis entitled “Habitat 7”, Liao photographed communities around the IRT…
Featured Organization: Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) This month we’re pleased to feature the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) and highlight its dedication to supporting the folk arts on Staten Island, which are a vital part of its cultural fabric. COAHSI sees that the appreciation…
Featured Artist: Hector Canonge Hector Canonge is an artist who has engaged in multiple disciplines over the span of his artistic and activist career in New York City. He studied Comparative Literature, Filmmaking and Integrated Media Arts and has participated in various artist residencies throughout the city. His work uses a broad range of media…
Featured Organization: The Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC) The Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC) documents, preserves and presents the history of the community of Weeksville, a town that flourished with a population of more than 500 free blacks, including doctors, teachers, and landowners, prior to the Civil War. As one of the first free black communities in…
Featured Artist: Sutthirat Supaparinya Sutthirat Supaparinya is an artist from Chiang Mai, Thailand who uses video and interactive installation to question, explore and challenge perceptions derived from the mundane world, mass media and institutional sources. Her works have been shown in numerous solo and group shows around the world – among them, the Bangkok Art…
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