Ford Foundation Supports Immigrant Artists Mentoring Program
Through the support of the Ford Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce the second year of Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: San Antonio, presented in collaboration with San Antonio local partners.
The program’s goal, within an inclusive safe space, is to foster a local community of artists sharing the immigrant experience and provide resources through entrepreneurial training, access to other artists, arts professionals, and organizations. The program offers immigrant artists the opportunity to focus on their creative practice and gain support and exposure for their work while upholding their distinct cultural identities.
The program combines two of NYFA’s professional development programs: the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, through which NYFA provides access to artist mentors and arts professionals via panels and workshops, and the Artist as Entrepreneur Boot Camp, which provides artists with the fundamental principles of sustainability in the arts. Featured topics will include strategic planning, finance, law, marketing, and fundraising. Additional material will be drawn from NYFA’s newly-revised popular textbook The Profitable Artist (Allworth Press, 2018)...