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Celebrating Blondell Cummings (1944–2015)

Dancer, Choreographer, Activist, and NYFA Artist & Advisor Three-time fellowship recipient and world-renowned dancer/choreographer/activist Blondell Cummings passed away this Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She died at the age of seventy and lived in the New York area for most of her life. Blondell Cummings was an inaugural NYFA fellow in choreography and went…

NYFA Presents: Three Decades of Writing Fellows

Join us for a Reading at NYU on October 9 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of our Artists’ Fellowship Program NYFA Board member and three-time fellowship recipient Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is hosting the event and Bill Cheng (Fellow in Fiction ‘15), Luc Sante (Fellow in Non-Fiction ‘14), and Dana Spiotta (Fellow in Fiction ‘08) will be reading.  Date:…

NYFA Artists Now: Upcoming Events in New York City

See work by Meredith Monk, Elizabeth Streb, Jane Fine, and more NYFA is pleased to share news and information about upcoming and current exhibitions, performances and readings by the following current and former recipients of NYFA Artists’ Fellowships:  aricoco (Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work ‘15)aricoco was chosen to be one of the 2015 Sunroom artists by…

Last Call to see Triacontagon

See NYFA’s exhibition celebrating 30 years of the Artists’ Fellowships Program Triacontagon: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Artists’ Fellowship Program is an exhibition featuring 43 Fellows that is now on view at Westbeth Gallery until August 30, 2015.  Technically a triacontagon is a thirty-sided star polygon. Although it is a star in its geometric…

FELLOWS AT 30: INTERVIEW WITH JAMES CARPENTER

The goal is to integrate, within even the most urban environments, a powerful collective experience of light On Thursday August 13 NYFA continues its 30th Anniversary celebration with the opening of Triacontagon: A Celebration of 30 Years of the Artists’ Fellowship Program. To highlight Triacontagon, exhibiting artist and NYFA Fellow in Crafts ‘90 James Carpenter spoke to…