![Image: a digital/electronic artwork by nova Milne that mashes up old home movie footage in blue tones with soft-colored digital overlays bringing the past in conversation with the present.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AFP2020nova_Lead-150x150.png)
nova Milne (Fellows in Digital/Electronic Arts ’20); “Skin Without Biography 2011/2019;” 2019; video still from a 3-screen video sculpture with 6 channel sound, archived 3K home movie, 4k footage, animation and rotoscopy, media players, cords, powder-coated steel, artist’s custom hand-tufted wool carpet, 2 min seamless loop
![Image: a digital/electronic artwork by nova Milne that mashes up old home movie footage in blue tones with soft-colored digital overlays bringing the past in conversation with the present.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AFP2020nova_HP1-150x150.png)
nova Milne (Fellows in Digital/Electronic Arts ’20); “Skin Without Biography 2011/2019;” 2019; video still from a 3-screen video sculpture with 6 channel sound, archived 3K home movie, 4k footage, animation and rotoscopy, media players, cords, powder-coated steel, artist’s custom hand-tufted wool carpet, 2 min seamless loop
![Image: a digital/electronic artwork by nova Milne that mashes up old home movie footage in blue tones with soft-colored digital overlays bringing the past in conversation with the present.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AFP2020nova_HP2-150x150.png)
nova Milne (Fellows in Digital/Electronic Arts ’20); “Skin Without Biography 2011/2019;” 2019; video still from a 3-screen video sculpture with 6 channel sound, archived 3K home movie, 4k footage, animation and rotoscopy, media players, cords, powder-coated steel, artist’s custom hand-tufted wool carpet, 2 min seamless loop
![Image: A nurse with long brown hair poses on a New York City sidewalk wearing a headband, mask, scrubs, and an ID card. The background is blurred and they stand smiling and in focus in the center of the frame.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CUNYNYHS_Lead-150x150.png)
A photo from New-York Historical Society’s “Hope Wanted: New York City Under Quarantine” exhibition; Catherine “Cat” Carnes, a registered nurse from Oklahoma, came to Brooklyn to volunteer after seeing “the news day after day and watching the nurses literally cry out for help in New York City;” Photo Credit: Kay Hickman
![Image: A rectangular screen sits, suspended in air, on a custom-made metal frame within a gallery-like setting. The screen is separated into three parts, with a collage-like image placed within.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AFPInfoSession_Blog2-150x150.png)
Detail: nova Milne (Digital/Electronic Arts ’20); “Skin Without Biography 2011/2019” (Installation view); 2019; a 3-screen video sculpture with 6 channel sound, archived 3K home movie, 4k footage, animation and rotoscopy, media players, cords, powder-coated steel, artist’s custom hand-tufted wool carpet, 2-min seamless loop
![Image: Close up image of a woman dancing. She is dancing and looking towards the sky, in the direction of the camera. The woman's curly blond hair moves in the air along with her dance movement. She is wearing a brown, yellow and black paisley patterned shirt and a large black skirt.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/JuliaLoiza-1-150x150.png)
Image: Julia Loiza Gutiérrez-Rivera; (Fellow in Folk/Traditional Arts ’21); performance, Residency at University of Richmond, 2020; part of a convening that congregated dance makers, community organizers, and historians from various genres and aesthetics to explore commonality across Afro-Diaspora movement and spiritual practices; Photo Credit: Peter McElhinney
![Image: Part of a series of large watercolors, depicting vast landscapes collaged together from various Ford commercials from the past to the present. Each watercolor has a bed or an office where Amazon Mechanical turk workers do their work.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/dd_blog4-150x150.png)
Danielle Dean (Tomorrowland Projects Foundation Award ’21); “5. a.m.;” 2020; watercolor on paper; Lincoln-Zephyr V-12, 1940; Ford, “There’s a Ford in your Future,” 1945; Lincoln Cosmopolitan, 1950;
Ford advert, Saturday Evening Post, November 22, 1958; Ford Electric Vehicle advert, “Let’s give nature a lift,’ 2014; Ford advert, ‘Your explorer is ready,’ 1991; Packard car advert, 1948; Photo Credit: Joerg Lohse
![Image Detail: A video still appears on a three-panel screen and is displayed in a custom powder-coated steel sculptural frame above a custom hand-tufted carpet in a gallery setting.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/novaMilne_Blog2-150x150.png)
Image Detail: nova Milne (Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts ’20); “Skin Without Biography 2011/2019;” 3 channel 2K synced video, archived 3K home movie, 4k footage, animation and rotoscopy, 3 LED screens, cords, cotton, media players, powder-coated steel, artist’s custom hand-tufted wool carpet, sound: multichannel stereo; Image Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery NSW
![Image: Video still of grainy home movie footage collaged with footage from the present day; the focus is on an individual who is pictured from behind a digital screen.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/novaMilne_Blog3-150x150.png)
Image Detail: nova Milne (Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts ’20); “Skin Without Biography 2011/2019;” 3 channel 2K synced video, archived 3K home movie, 4k footage, animation and rotoscopy, 3 LED screens, cords, cotton, media players, powder-coated steel, artist’s custom hand-tufted wool carpet, sound: multichannel stereo; Image Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery NSW
![Photo of 3 actors all in their late 20's, from left, Alexis Floyd as Sherrie: African-American woman, iris menas as Alex: non-binary white person, Aury Krebs as Tyler: Asian woman. Photo by Eric McNatt.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WomensFund_FictionWeb-150x150.png)
Ana Mari de Quesada (NYC Women’s Fund ’22); WAY DOWN, a new queer web series about the life of struggling artists in NYC; with (l) Alexis Floyd as Sherrie, iris menas as Alex & Aury Krebs as Tyler; written by Grant James Varjas; directed by Ellie Gravitte; produced by Ana Mari de Quesada. Photo Credit: Eric McNatt
![Image composite featuring headshots of Marylyn Dintenfass, Carmelita Tropicana, and Anne del Castillo, and an image of Brookfield Properties.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Hof2023_Blog-150x150.png)
Images (left to right): Marylyn Dintenfass (Fellow in Crafts ’87), Photo Courtesy of the Artist; Carmelita Tropicana (Fellow in Performance Art/Emergent Forms ’87, Playwriting/Screenwriting ’91 & ’06; NYFA Board Member), Photo Credit: Carlos David; Anne del Castillo, Photo Courtesy of MOME; Image Detail: Brookfield Properties, Artwork: Liz West, “Hymn to the Big Wheel,” Photo Credit: Jakob Dahlin
![Image composite featuring headshots of Marylyn Dintenfass, Carmelita Tropicana, and Anne del Castillo, and an image of Brookfield Properties.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Hof2023_NewBlog-150x150.png)
Images (left to right): Marylyn Dintenfass (Fellow in Crafts ’87), Photo Courtesy of the Artist; Carmelita Tropicana (Fellow in Performance Art/Emergent Forms ’87, Playwriting/Screenwriting ’91 & ’06; NYFA Board Member), Photo Credit: Carlos David; Anne del Castillo, Photo Courtesy of MOME; Image Detail: Brookfield Properties, Artwork: Liz West, “Hymn to the Big Wheel,” Photo Credit: Jakob Dahlin
![In the foreground, a sculpture roughly carved from a wildfire-charred 8-foot tall tree trunk depicts the somewhat ghoulish head of a woman with no eyes, her braided hair tied into a bun. Viewed from behind, the carving faces US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, the largest manufacturer of refined coal in the US.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AWAW23_Blog1-150x150.png)
Image: “The Externalities (Clairton, PA);” 2023; hand-carved log salvaged from wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, installed facing US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania; dimensions variable (approx. 8’ tall); Photo Credit: Not An Alternative (AWAW EAG ’23)/The Natural History Museum
![A group of black furniture in front of a window with yellow lighting, smaller lighting devices displayed on top of the furniture.](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/QAF2024_HP1-150x150.png)
Image: Mo Kang (Queens Arts Fund New Work ’23); “Lounge of A Prophet;” 2022; Black MDF, Plexiglass, Dehydrated Fruits, Thermochromic Surface, Pickle jars, Oil-based scent defuser, “Chinese Smell”, Distillation system, Herbs, Books, Ball Python, Audio (Fictional Writing), Hand below glass sculptures, Heating system, IPU fans; 13 x 15 x 7 ft
![Installation shot of images by Jonathan Gardenhire on a white gallery wall](https://www.nyfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Residencies_Blog5-150x150.png)
Image Detail: Jonathan Gardenhire (Fellow in Photography ’19); installation view, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God/ Imperfect Man;” 2017; exhibited at The Kitchen as part of “Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, A Recollection. Predicated.”; Curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden; Photo Credit: Ben Tran
Join NYFA this Saturday, Nov. 16, at 4:30 PM for a panel discussion about ways the new administration can help make New York City more livable, affordable and friendly for artists!
The Talking Transition Tent is in Duarte Square at Canal Street and 6th Avenue.