“Compendium details the interchangeable qualities of art and science. This exhibition considers artists that are planted in both disciplines, offering the Islip Art Museum and their visitors a survey of art and the artists that drive the conversation.” Beth Giacummo (MARK ’09) and Lorrie Fredette (MARK ’09) co-curated Compendium for the Islip Art Museum. Compendium also features work from Brandon Ballengée…
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,…
“Continue creating art, no matter how challenging the process becomes. Continue even though you’re not showing or selling anything. Continue even if you’re dissatisfied with what you’re producing. Determination transcends reason.” To celebrate IAP alumna Priscila De Carvalho’s permanent sculpture Bronx: Heart, Homeland, 2015 commissioned by the MTA Arts and Design Program, we took the opportunity…
I still can’t forget how I thought, “we are like lonely Martians or something, huh.” Visual Artist Rica Takashima is the recent recipient of a NYFA Opportunity Grant and an alumna of NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program (IAP). Since moving to the United States from Japan, Takashima has worked tirelessly to share her work with new…
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