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Spotlight: VSA Emerging Young Artists Program

Announcing the 2014 Call for Entries The Kennedy Center’s VSA, the leading international organization focused on arts and disability, is accepting applications for their annual juried competition and national touring exhibition. Open to artists with disabilities between 16–25 years old, the program awards placement in all-expenses-paid professional-development workshops and up to $20,000 in prizes. The…

NYFA Fellow shows film in Times Square Leslie Thornton (Fellowship, Film, 1988 and 1999) shows her film Binocular Menagerie on Times Square’s large-scale electronic billboards this May as part of the Midnight Moment program series.   From the official press release, courtesy of ArtfixDaily Artwire™: Animals of all kinds will fill Times Square’s spectacular screens in May,…

New York Theater Program Grantee presents interactive performance by NYFA Fellows From April 30–May 10, HERE — a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon New York Theater Program — presents Keep Your Electric Eye On Me, a multimedia dance-theatre performance by Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty (Fellowships, Video/Film, 2002 and 2006). From the official press release:…