Featured Artist: Mathilde Roussel Giraudy This month, our IAP Intern Flavia Berindogue, a Brazilian artist and designer, interviews Mathilde Roussel Giraudy, a French artist based in New York. IAP: You are an artist who has worked with different media, but in most of your work, vestiges of your childhood in France are always a constant.…
Featured Organization: Art for Chance (AfC) This month, the IAP features Art for Change (AfC), an organization that encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information to people. They provide space to discuss and explore that information, stimulating individual and collective reflection, which leads to action and…
Featured Artist: Tattfoo Tan IAP Program Officer Karen Demavivas interviews Tattfoo Tan. IAP: You began as a painter and it was through color that you came into food. Beyond conventional matters of still life, how did this connection translate into activism? TT: The switch from a studio to post studio practice was a simple transition for me.…
Featured Organization: Cidadão Global This month the IAP is thrilled to feature Cidadão Global (CG) a community-based, social justice organization doing groundbreaking work with low-income Brazilian immigrants based primarily in the New York City area. CG is dedicated to promoting and defending the human rights of immigrants and strengthening citizen participation and collaboration within the…
Featured Organization: Immigration Task Force @ the Queens Borough President’s Office Each of the five boroughs of New York City could easily be its own mid-size city. Indeed, all the boroughs are located in their own separate counties, and each is headed up by a borough president. In Queens, the most multi-ethnic county in the entire…
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