The Pandemic has disrupted the livelihood of artists. It has also offered artists new opportunities for collaboration and engagement with their communities.

Please join The Brooklyn Public Library and NYFA Immigrant Artists Mentoring Program on October 16 at 2:00 PM for this conversation with artists with the aim of exploring different ways of finding resources and new strategies for adapting to the challenges of this unique moment in time. This event will be a dialogue between artists about innovation and the process of moving forward with making art.

Register for this conversation here. You may register up until one hour before the event starts. You will receive the Zoom link via email before the event.

Panelists bios:

Chemin Hsiao (Taiwan) is a visual artist based in Queens & Brooklyn (Chashama Studio Space), New York. A participant in the 2016 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Hsiao received his BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts. He was also a recipient of the New Work Grant & ArtSite Public Art Commissioning from Queens Council on the Arts. His artworks were exhibited at various venues such as the Walter Wickiser Gallery and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Since 2019, he has completed several commissioned murals for the Queens community including Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Flushing. Besides his creative practice, Hsiao taught visual arts workshops to students from kindergarten to seniors for organizations such as the Queens Museum, Queens Botanical Garden, ProjectArt, Queens Public Library, Abrons Arts Center, and Nan Shan Senior Center.

Yali Romagoza (b. in Havana, Cuba, based in New York City) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice reflects on notions of feminism, identity, power, and oppression and explores broader issues of migration, politics, and social behavior. Through a combination of various mediums, such as performance, video, installation, photography, and conceptual costume. Romagoza graduated with an MFA in Fashion from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015) and a BA in Art History from the Universityof Havana (2006). Her works have been included in the Gothenburg Biennial, Havana Biennial, Bétonsalon, Paris, Liverpool Biennial, The Immigrant Artist Biennial. She has performed at Links Hall Theater, White Box, Teatro LATEA, Art in Odd Places, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Grace Exhibition Space, NY Latina American Art Triennial, among others. Romagoza has been granted numerous awards and residencies, including Cátedra Arte de Conducta by Tania Bruguera, Bétonsalon Centre d’Art et de Recherche, NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Creative Capital NYC Taller.