NYFA speaks with 2011 Sculpture Fellow Joe Brittain. NYFA: Hi Joe, please tell us what you’ve been working on and what’s coming up for you. JB: Currently I’m finishing a group of new sculptures for a show at Regina Rex gallery in Brooklyn, opening January 14th, curated by Lauren Portada. In these new works the…
Featured Artist: Hector Canonge Hector Canonge is an artist who has engaged in multiple disciplines over the span of his artistic and activist career in New York City. He studied Comparative Literature, Filmmaking and Integrated Media Arts and has participated in various artist residencies throughout the city. His work uses a broad range of media…
NYFA speaks with 1989 Photography Fellow Ken Schles. NYFA: Hi Ken, please tell us what you are working on and what’s coming up for you. KS: I’ve been working on a new photo book these last few years and I’m working hard to get that book out into the world. It’s my fourth monograph—called Oculus.…
Featured Organization: The Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC) The Weeksville Heritage Center (WHC) documents, preserves and presents the history of the community of Weeksville, a town that flourished with a population of more than 500 free blacks, including doctors, teachers, and landowners, prior to the Civil War. As one of the first free black communities in…
NYFA speaks with 2011 Poetry Fellow Ari Banias. NYFA: Hi Ari, can you tell us about what you’re working on and what’s coming up for you? AB: Right now I’m a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, which affords me a longer stretch of time than I’ve ever had to focus…
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