Three months of self-doubt and frustration later, I decided to go to New Hampshire where my father had moved from Taiwan to work with some distant relatives and friends to pursue their American Dream as Chinese restaurant owners. And after joining this program, I quickly realized that my English skills and scores would not be enough to fully succeed in a high level university. It took me a long time to find a program in a Michigan school with a suitable multimedia major that would accept me. I arrived on a student visa to pursue a Master’s after finishing my undergrad in business in Taiwan. Hsuan-Yu: I first came from Taiwan to Michigan in 2001. Jahaida: When did you come to New York City and why? It is a sometimes unforeseen turn of events and decisions that led her to New York City, a place that for the past seven years she has called her home. We are welcomed into the home of Kaoru Watanabe, a Japanese Taiko drummer, and Hsuan-Yu, with her flexible body, immediately starts to unload and set up tons of filming equipment, cameras, and microphones to get to work on her passion: filmmaking. We take the elevator to the apartment of one of her friends in the basement where, she explains, she is working on a film segment for BRIC, a Brooklyn-based art and media nonprofit. She opens the door with a warm, charismatic smile that seems to be a permanent feature of her face. On a cold April morning in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, I meet with Hsuan-Yu Pan. The Governors Island Residency Initiative is also supported, in part, by Cowles Charitable Trust, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., The Norman & Bettina Roberts Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).Interview conducted and written by Jahaida Hernandez Jesurum LMCC’s Artist Residency Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Yin Ming Wong | Visual Arts - Brooklyn Supporters Madeleine Fia Matsson | Visual Arts - Brooklyn KC Trommer | Literature/Writing - Jackson Heights Katy McCarthy | Multidisciplinary - Brooklyn Josef Pinlac | Multidisciplinary - Elmhurst Janelle Lawrence | Performance Art - Manhattan Isaac Roller | Comics/Graphic Literature - Manhattan Seeking out artists and cultural workers whose practices will benefit from working on Governors Island as a public space serving diverse audiences.Ģ021 Residents at the Arts Center at Governors IslandĪbigail Donahue | Design Arts - ManhattanĪndres Santiago Pina | Theatre - ManhattanĪnthony Huffman | Literature/Writing - Brooklynĭena Igusti | Literature/Writing - Jamaica.Seeking out artists and cultural workers whose practices address important socio-political issues, including but not limited to public health, gender discrimination, immigration, racial equity, climate change and environmental justice.Seeking out artists and cultural workers whose practices give back to, or aim to make positive change within, the cultural community and/or the City at large.Ensuring that artists and cultural practitioners of diverse racial identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations from across New York City have access to the opportunity and are represented.The selection process was guided by values and priorities that informed a careful, equitable and inclusive approach to outreach and selection, including: LMCC begins year 2 of the initiative with this cohort.įor the 2021 season, over 250 artists applied for LMCC’s open call. This initiative endeavors to support artists, writers, cultural workers, creative practitioners living and working across New York City's five boroughs by providing free, temporary space to work on the Island. In 2020, LMCC, the Trust for Governors Island, and numerous Island-based organizations launched the Governors Island Residency Initiative in response to the COVID-19 crisis and its devastating impact across the NYC Cultural Landscape. LMCC welcomes 22 incoming 2021 GI COVID-19 Response Residency Program Participantswho will be given valuable studio space at LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Islandthrough April : Abigail Donahue, Alexa Hoyer, Andres Santiago Pina, Anthony Huffman, Betsy Kenyon, Dena Igusti, Hsuan Yu Pan, Hyewon, Isaac Roller, Janelle Lawrence, Josef Pinlac, Katy McCarthy, KC Trommer, Kelly Marshall, Kosuke Kawahara, Madeleine Fia Matsson, Mingna Li, Nozomi Rose, Rhonda Weppler, Ryan D.
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