“I was told along the way of making this book, ‘don’t tell an immigrant story—it’s been done…’ Well okay, not by me though. And here we are.” – Marwa Helal Chinese writer Ge Gao (Fellow in Nonfiction ’20) is at work on a book of essays about her cross-cultural coming-of-age story. Born in Egypt, Marwa Helal…
“Dare to try and collaborate with artist friends who work in other mediums and hopefully there will be some surprising outcomes.” — Jiaoyang Li Jiaoyang Li (IAP ’20) is a multimedia artist whose work is grounded in poetry. Ziyang Wu (NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Panelist ’20) works in installation, performance, interactive media, and digital video. Both…
“Since I started painting in the neighborhood cityscape, through having conversations and communicating with local people, I realized that my cityscape paintings make people happy and mean a lot to locals. It totally changed my approach to my art.” Visual artist Kazuya Morimoto devotes most of his time to painting the streets of New York…
“Sharing the impact of personal narratives and challenges on the work being presented and pointing to the smaller narratives that the work is visually and symbolically built on keeps the audience engaged, and offers to share the layered existence of immigrant artists.” – Rupy C. Tut Visual artist Musah Swallah (IAP Newark ’18) recently collaborated…
The Iraqi-Canadian performance artist and the Mexican-New York based dancer participant of NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (IAP) discuss their arts mentorship experiences. Since 2010, Neighbourhood Arts Network, a strategic initiative of the Toronto Arts Foundation, has offered accessible arts programming, awards, and exciting partnership opportunities to Toronto-based artists, arts educators, and arts organizations. The…
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