Photo Credit: Elinor Carucci/INSTITUTE NYFA speaks to Elinor Carucci (NYFA Fellow in Photography, 2010) about her life as a photographer and her most recent monograph, Mother, which chronicles nine years of photographs of her family. NYFA: What drew you to photography? EC: It was a coincidence. I was fifteen and it happened one afternoon. I…
Katya Grokhovsky, Selfie as an artist with mask, mixed media, 2013 NYFA speaks to Katya Grokhovsky (NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentee, 2012) about matters including: her interdisciplinary work; her current solo exhibition, Bodybeautiful, at Galerie Protege; her piece in NYFA’s exhibition at the Governors Island Art Fair this September; and her experience as an immigrant artist. NYFA:…
NYFA speaks with Myra Melford (NYFA Fellow in Music Composition, 1992, ‘98, ’02) about her composition process, her upcoming solo piano album, Life Carries Me This Way, and her new mixed media piece, Language of Dreams, which debuts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this November. NYFA: When did you start playing piano, and…
NYFA speaks with Michelle Stuart (NYFA Fellow in Painting, 1987) on what informs her artistic process, and her traveling solo exhibit, Drawn From Nature, which is at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York through October 27th. NYFA: There has always been a fusion of art and nature within your work. Can you talk…
Photo Credit: Shari Diamond Joan Silber NYFA speaks with Joan Silber (NYFA Fellow in Fiction, 1986) about her work, her creative process, anarchists, and the inspiration behind her new book, Fools, a series of interconnected short stories out now from W.W. Norton & Company. NYFA: Congratulations on your new book Fools. Can you tell us…
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