IMA community members receive $10K artist grants from NYSCA

Congrats to all the artists in the IMA community who have been awarded 2024 New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) Artist Grants!

More info: https://arts.ny.gov/

-IMA alum, Walis Johnson received a grant for project, Inheritance/SHACK with sponsorship from The Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant History

-IMA alum MX Oops received a grant for project, UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL with sponsorship from New York Live Arts

-IMA alum Amanda Katz received a grant for project, All the Storefronts on Nassau Avenue with sponsorship from UnionDocs

-IMA alum Jess Shane received a grant for project, The Hand Between Us with sponsorship from UnionDocs

-IMA alum Nathan Fitch received a grant for project, On Essential Islands (working title) with sponsorship from UnionDocs

-IMA alum Melissa Hacker received a grant for project, 256,000 Miles From Home with sponsorship from Women Make Movies

-IMA alum Theresa Loong received a grant for project, Bought/Broken with sponsorship from Women Make Movies

-IMA FA23 graduate Yehui Zhao received a grant for project, YXi Jiao Gou with sponsorship from UnionDocs

IMA Professor Lynne Sachs received a grant for project, Citizen Second Class with sponsorship from Light Work Visual Studies

IMA Professor Mitra Kobali received a grant for project, Making Utopia with sponsorship from UnionDocs

IMA Professor Hans Tammen received a grant for project, Bohnenberger’s Machine with sponsorship from Wave Farm

And two professors in our Film and Media Department:

Professor Tami Gold received a grant for project, Sex Work 101 – It’s Just A Job (working title) with sponsorship from Camera News

Professor Anita Cheng received a grant for project, Home of the Gesture—West Harlem with sponsorship from Harlem One Stop