Featured Organization: Mano a Mano, Mexican Culture without Borders/Cultura Mexicana sin Fronteras In our inaugural Featured Organization section we highlighted the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, whose Cultural Community Initiatives (CCI’s) are multi-year collaborations with specific immigrant communities in New York aimed at building up a community infrastructure to support traditional artists. The Center’s Mexican…
Featured Artist: Golnar Adili IAP speaks with Golnar Adili, 2009 NYFA Mentor and Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books Fellow IAP: Tell us a little bit about your personal history – where did you grow up? When did you come to New York? How has this influenced your work? GA: I was born in Virginia and we moved to Iran when…
Featured Organization: freeDimensional “No matter where you are in the world,” explains freeDimensional’s Executive Director and Founder, Todd Lester, “there are always people using creativity to challenge injustice.” Recognizing this, freeDimensional (fD) supports cultural workers in distress, including many artists – writers, actors, musicians, photographers – from around the world who face censorship or direct…
Featured Artist: Jessica Kaire Immigrant Artist Project had the chance recently to interview Featured Artist Jessica Kaire. Here’s what she had to say: IAP: Tell us a little bit about yourself JK: I’m the product of immigrant Syrian Jews, the Guatemalan civil war of the ‘80s and a North American education. The role of art has transformed from…
Featured Organization: Center for Traditional Music and Dance When the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD) – known earlier as the Balkan Arts Center – was founded in the late 1960s, world music was not yet a common term, much less a movement, and a fascination with performance traditions from different parts of the world was…
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