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IMA grad Jessica Chorensky receives grant from LMCC

Congratulations to IMA grad Jessica Chornesky! She just received a 2016 Creative Engagement grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs for her thesis film “Why Racism Is a White Person’s Problem.”  

IMA alumna Annie Berman receives MAAF grant

IMA alumna Annie Berman has received a grant from Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF.) The Fund, which is a partner of the Regrant program of the New York State Council of the Arts, has also selected seven other artists across many genres of visual media. Read More

Prof. Lucas’ film screening & discussion at Union Docs

Still photo of the main title of the filmProf. Marty Lucas’ film Hiroshima Bound will have its first screening in the New York area at Union Docs in Williamsburg on March 24th at 7:30PM.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Prof. Reiko Tahara and IMAer Jason Fox. Hiroshima Bound is an hour-long personal interrogation of the traumatic mix of memory and amnesia that constitutes America’s understanding of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, built from a mix of re-examined archival material, personal meditation and testimony, and visits to sites including The Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, White Sands Missile Proving Grounds, and the International Center of Photography in New York.
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