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