Featured Artist: Hai Zhang NYFA Immigrant Artist Program interviews photographer Hai Zhang IAP: Tell us a bit about your life’s path: Where did you grow up and when did you first come to the US? What was that experience like? What were your biggest struggles upon arriving? HZ: I grew up in Kunming, a tourist…
Featured Organization: Asian American Arts Alliance This month we profile our Brooklyn neighbors and collaborators the Asian American Arts Alliance, who just announced their new online platform for artists. A lot has changed since 1983, when the Alliance was first founded. The Alliance continues in its dedication to strengthening Asian American artists and arts/cultural groups…
Featured Artist: Nicolás Dumit Estévez On April 15, 2010 I, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, collected a jar of water from the river of the borough I call home and mixed it with sixteen drops of Holy Water. One drop for each year I have been visiting and later living in the Bronx: 1994-2010. I then poured the…
Featured Organization: Chez Bushwick NYFA Immigrant Artist Project sat down with Jonah Bokaer, Founding Director of Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance with a strong focus on new choreography. Chez Bushwick is located in an industrial swath of the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, and it is best…
Featured Artist: Tamara Kostianovsky Immigrant Artist Project interviews Featured Artist and 2009 NYFA Sculpture Fellow Tamara Kostianovsky IAP: Tell us a little bit about yourself. TK: I was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1974 to Argentinean parents who returned to Argentina a few years after my birth. I received a Bachelor’s degree from the National School of Fine…
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