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Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter, Issue No. 28

Featured Organization: El Museo del Barrio El Museo del Barrio was founded in 1969 by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz and a coalition of parents, educators, artists, and activists who noted that mainstream museums largely ignored Latino artists. More than 40 years later, the museum has grown to be New York’s leading Latino cultural institution.…

Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter, Issue No. 27

Featured Artist: Tania Bruguera Tania Bruguera, this month’s featured artist, is one of the leading political and performance artists of her generation. Working primarily in behavior art, useful art and art in the political and public sphere, she investigates ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life. Bruguera has participated in Documenta,…

Interviewed by: Suzan Sherman and Daniel Wentworth Shot and edited by: Melissa Friedling/Slouch Productions The Artist’s Life: Polly Apfelbaum Polly Apfelbaum’s professed love of “visual overload… visual extravaganza” is manifest everywhere in her four-decade body of work. As a young artist in New York in the ’70s, she drew inspiration from diverse styles, blending Pop’s…

Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter, Issue No. 26

Featured Organization: The Pratt Center for Community Development The Pratt Center for Community Development works with community organizations in all five boroughs to shape the local built environment and develop strategies for preserving and creating affordable housing, decent schools, desirable retail, accessible open space, and authentic neighborhood character. In the 1960s, the Pratt Center and…