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Introducing | Jan Harrison Receives Inaugural Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art

$5,000 award created for painters living in the U.S. and U.S. Territories who are working in the New Surrealist style. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced Jan Harrison as the first-ever recipient of its Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art. The $5,000 award is supported by funding granted to NYFA…

Apply Now | The Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art

This $5,000 award, administered by NYFA, is open to painters in the U.S. and U.S. Territories. The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced the creation of the Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art, a $5,000 award for painters living in the United States and U.S. Territories who are working in the…

Apply Now | NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Painting

Painters: 2018 is your year to apply for a $7,000 unrestricted cash grant! For over 30 years, in partnership with New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has awarded Artist Fellowships of $7,000 to individual and collaborative originating artists living and working in New York State and/or Indian…

Interview | The Story of “A Place to Disappear,” a Conversation with Pablo Lerma

“For me, the most powerful connection between painting and photography is the sense of time; how with only a gesture you can use time as a tool to change the reality you’re trying to capture/interpret.” Pablo Lerma is a visual artist and researcher based in New York. His artistic practice involves researching and collecting photographs,…

Conversation: Wu Lan-Chiann’s World Through a Window

“I locate myself neither [in] contemporary American nor Chinese art, I see myself as contemporary ink painter.” Wu Lan-Chiann is an ink painter and NYFA fiscally sponsored artist. Her delicate paintings are intimate yet powerful meditations that cross culture and time. Her upcoming solo exhibition at The Museum of East Asian Art in Bath, UK…