Announcing! 2025 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts Participants
Program mentees’ home countries and regions include Albania, Argentina, Brazil, Nepal, Senegal, South Korea, and Trinidad and Tobago.
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce the participants in the 2025 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts, presented in collaboration with New York cultural partners New York Live Arts, Asian American Arts Alliance, Bronx Council on the Arts, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Flushing Town Hall, Haiti Cultural Exchange, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, ProjectArt, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, and Staten Island Arts. The newest cohort of our Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program brings together 21 artists from 15 countries and regions.
With thanks to our partner New York Live Arts and curators Yanira Castro (Fellow in Choreography ‘16) , Martita Abril (IAP Alumna), and Zahra Banyamerian, for the fifth year running, mentees will have the opportunity to exhibit their work in In/Between, on view from April 3 – June 1, 2025 at the New York Live Arts’ Ford Foundation Live Gallery. The name In/Between reflects on the multiplicity of immigrant artists’ experiences, identities, practices, and politics, while also speaking to the liminal experience of home/residence/community. Come and celebrate the artists at the opening reception on April 3, 2025. More information and RSVP here.
NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program pairs immigrant artists with artist mentors who provide one-on-one support for their mentee, guiding them to achieve specific goals and providing them with broader access to the U.S. cultural world through an exchange of ideas, resources, and experiences. Most importantly, the mentoring program fosters a community, providing opportunities to connect with other immigrant artists through group meetings, peer learning, and informal gatherings that include alumni from 2007 to the present. Through access to other artists, arts professionals, and organizations, the program offers immigrant artists the opportunity to focus on their career goals while navigating the shared experiences and challenges of being an immigrant artist.
Meet this year’s participants!
2025 Participants and Disciplines:
Mentee Jae Hi Ahn, Visual (South Korea), paired with Mentor Armita Raafat, Visual (Iran).
Mentee Danielle Alhassid, Video/Film/New Media (Israel), paired with Mentor Nazanin Noroozi, Visual (Iran).
Mentee Dai Asano, Multidisciplinary (Japan), paired with Mentor Jemila MacEwan, Multidisciplinary (Scotland and Australia).
Mentee Anahita Bagheri, Visual (Iran), paired with Mentor Ivana Brenner, Visual (Argentina).
Mentee Kriston Banfield, Multidisciplinary (Trinidad and Tobago), paired with Mentor Sky Pape, Visual (Canada).
Mentee Karen Bravo, Visual (Colombia), paired with Mentor Andrea Arroyo, Visual (Mexico).
Mentee Talita Cabral, Multidisciplinary (Brazil), paired with Mentor Blanka Amezkua, Multidisciplinary (Mexico).
Mentee Won Young Chang, Visual (South Korea), paired with Mentor Jeremy Olson, Visual (United States).
Mentee Siyu Chen, Visual (China), paired with Mentor Ezra Wube, Multidisciplinary (United States).
Mentee Liza Domingues, Visual (Brazil), paired with Mentor Tatiana Arocha, Multidisciplinary (Colombia).
Mentee Eli Farinango, Multidisciplinary (Ecuador and Canada), paired with Mentor Layqa Nuna Yawar, Multidisciplinary (Ecuador).
Mentee Shishir Giri, Visual (Nepal), paired with Mentor Hai Zhang, Visual (China).
Mentee Pavlos Liaretidis, Visual (Greece), paired with Mentor Laura Lappi, Visual (Finland).
Mentee Qiqing Lin, Folk/Traditional Arts (China), paired with Mentor Brigitta Varadi, Multidisciplinary (Hungary).
Mentee Elisa Lutteral, Multidisciplinary (Argentina), paired with Mentor Fanny Allié, Visual (France).
Mentee Agustina Markez, Multidisciplinary (Argentina), paired with Mentor Rafael Yaluff, Multidisciplinary (Chile).
Mentee Rujuta Rao, Multidisciplinary (India), paired with Mentor Yeseul Song, Multidisciplinary (South Korea).
Mentee Mei Seva, Visual (Albania), paired with Mentor Hayoon Jay Lee, Multidisciplinary (South Korea).
Mentee Alassane Sy, Visual (Senegal), paired with Mentor Andrew Kung, Visual (United States).
Mentee Shu Wang, Video/Film/New Media (China), paired with Mentor Merle Augustin, Video/Film/New Media (Haiti).
Mentee Michelle Wu, Multidisciplinary (China), paired with Mentor Woojin Lee,Visual (South Korea).
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