Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has received a two-year grant from Ford Foundation to support the expansion of its Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program to Detroit, MI; Newark, NJ; Oakland, CA; and San Antonio, TX.
he program will connect 144 immigrant artists with mentors and strengthen immigrant artist communities in those four cities, using NYFA's Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program in New York, NY as an impactful model for replication. NYFA, a national arts organization with a myriad of online resources for artists, will work in partnership with established arts organizations in each partner city to implement the program and tailor it to the needs of each individual community. Deutsche Bank has funded the New York program since it began in 2007...