HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MAY IAP NEWSLETTER #69

Immigrant Artist Insights and Opportunities

Are you currently receiving our free Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program Newsletter? Highlights from this month’s issue include:

• A featured interview with

  Brenda Kanne

  of Colectiva 21, an artist collective formed by participants in NYFA’s 2013 Artist Boot Camp in Guatemala. We talk with Brenda about artists creating opportunities for themselves. You can see work by Colectiva 21 in La Crisalida exhibition opening at NYFA on Friday, May 29.

• Nineteen artist deadlines coming up, including NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (due today!), EtM Con Edison Composers’ Residency, MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition, and the Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Theatre.

• A guide to upcoming cultural events like the Uptown Arts Stroll Kick-Off, 

  LGBTQ Voices at Flushing Town Hall, and CaribBEING’s Heritage Film Series at the Brooklyn Museum.

• Spotlight on IAP alum, Raúl Ayala, who describes the relationship between his work as a muralist and as an activist and whose favorite place to find art is in the streets.
• And more …

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Find out more about NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program (IAP).

Image: Leslie Nanne (Guatemala Boot Camp ‘13), Fright, (Original drawing from book, The Word Collector), Collage, 2013.