NYFA Mentoring Program

The New York Foundation for the Arts is entering its third year of the Mentoring Program. There's an Information Session on Wednesday, October 15, 5-7 PM in the NYFA offices at 155 Avenue of the Americas, 6th floor.

You can also contact Andreia Davies, the Immigrant Coordinator, via email at i.outreach@nyfa.org, or via telephone at (212) 366-6900 ext. 322.

The Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists pairs foreign-born artists with 2008 NYFA Fellows who act as their Mentors for a period of six months, beginning in Janaury 2009, to assist them in gaining broader access to the New York art world. Mentors also help their Mentees achieve a specific goal, such as writing an artist statement, creating a marketing brochure, or completing a grant application. Our goal is to help immigrant artists acquire some of the skills necessary to fairly compete and ultimately succeed as artists.

Bread Body Parts

Since 2006 Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom (whose family also runs a bakery) has used dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts. The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips and other details constructed out of cashews, raisins and the like. A lack of hair and blood-like glazes make the work all the more creepy. Sold at his family's bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, he displays the parts wrapped like food in plastic and hung from meat hooks. Apparently, the art is in fact edible and tastes like regular bread.

Watch the video below to see Unarrom at work and some visitors' reactions.