Highlights from the August IAP Newsletter #84

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Here are the highlights from this month’s issue: 

• A featured interview conducted by 2016 Immigrant Artist Program mentor Terence Trouillot with mentee Joana P. Cardozo, co-curator of The Future Perfect.
• Professional development resources such as the EFA Robert Blackburn Painterly Print Workshop, a two-day intensive workshop for both the beginner and more advanced painter/printmaker; and the Bronx Council for the Art’s Seeing It Through 2016, a series of free writing workshops in the month of September.
• 15 opportunities and deadlines including the Chashama’s Call for Submissions, providing artists, working in a variety of media, opportunities to present work in highly visible venues throughout NYC; the Salupongan International Residency Program, a one-month residency that focuses on social and cultural issues involving indigenous communities in Southern Mindanao, Philippines; and the Artist Protection Fund, providing fellowship grants to threatened artists from any field of artistic endeavor.
• Two of our favorite NYC events in September that celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month.
• Our congratulations to Eleen Lin’s (IAP ‘10, ’15, ’16) for having her work, Oracle, selected for the online magazine Words without Borders and other IAP Alumni news.
• Our first featured subscriber, Edwin Padilla.
• 8 featured job opportunities around the country from NYFA Classifieds.
• And more!

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Image: Edwin Padilla, Common Yellowthroat, 2016