#Golnar Adili

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Books On Books Collection - Edmund Fry

Pantographia (1799/2022) Pantographia, Containing accurate Copies of all the known Alphabets in the World (1799/2022) Edmund Fry Casebound in Italian Fedrigoni Imitlin, sewn book block, black endpapers. H215 x W140 mm. Acquired from Black Letter Press, 1 April 2022. Photos: Books On Books Collection. For the Enlightenment, everything that existed was meant to be in an encyclopedia. For Dr.…

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Golnar Adili - Witt Visiting Artist

We are super excited to welcome Brooklyn-based Iranian-American artist Golnar Adili to Stamps School this week as a Witt Visiting Artist. Golnar  will present a public lecture on her work on Thursday, March 14 at 2:00pm at Stamps Printmedia Studios, room 2147. During her residency at Stamps, Adili will also produce a limited edition laser-engraving print in collaboration with Nick Dowgwillo and students.

Born in Virginia, Golnar Adili moved to Iran when she was four. Adili holds a Master's degree in architecture from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she received the Thesis Award and was the recipient of the Booth Traveling Fellowship to Tehran. Adili has attended residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts, Smack Mellon, the Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation for the Arts,  Lower East Side Printshop, Guttenberg Arts, the Center for Book Arts and Women’s Studio Workshop among others.

Adili has exhibited at Nurture Art, Brooklyn, Craft and Folk Art Museum LA, Cue Art Foundation, International Print Center NY, Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Lower East Side Printshop. She has received grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, Puffin Foundation Grant, and the Urban Artist Initiative grant. She is currently a Workspace resident at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

As an Iranian growing up in post-1979 Tehran, Adili states that: I have experienced separation, uprooting, and longing in its different manifestations. In my art, I am compelled to decode the ways in which these events have marked me through Persian poetry, craft, and the body. Art is my key to understanding the current underlying my identity and the world through fragments and abstraction. In doing so, I derive much of my inspiration from my own life.

Working in a range of media, Golnar’s process involves deconstructing and reconstructing an image or object through obsessive folding, mixing and material manipulation of fragments. Some of Golnar’s inspiration stems from Persian poetry and biographical text investigating a landscape of longing. The body becomes the context for this displacement formally and materially. In the photographic based works the photo paper is made tactile through repetitive cutting, weaving and sewing. This craft-intense way of making mimics a digital process, which creates a juxtaposition in exploring new distortions and blurring the lines between design, craft and fine art.

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Business of Art | Protect Your Work from Flooding with These Three Steps

No matter your discipline, it is imperative to protect your records and your work from water damage.

A major natural disaster is difficult enough without facing the prospect of losing your artistic work. 2019 has brought extreme flooding to several areas of the country, and will likely bring more as the year progresses. Artists across the country are facing greater weather-related threats due to global warming. To help, we’re breaking emergency preparedness down into manageable essentials, starting with flooding, to help all artists feel more confident should they face a natural disaster or other crisis.

There’s a common notion that artists and non-artists alike avoid thinking about emergency preparedness, as it can be a daunting topic and one that requires some legwork to protect yourself. But we’re challenging artists to disprove that idea and flip it on its head. As you set about emergency-proofing your artistic practice as much as possible, you’ll start to notice an exciting perk of being so organized: that you’re more prepared to take advantage of the career-building opportunities that come your way. You can also make the endeavor less overwhelming by working together with a friend in your artist network, and allowing yourself to tackle this project a bit at a time instead of all at once.

Know Your Risks

Start with where you live and work. Are hurricanes common? Is your studio, office, or housing located in a flood zone? You can check your flood risk via this interactive map from The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). If you are not located in a high-risk flood zone, though, that does not mean you are not at risk. During the Louisiana Floods of 2016, for example, half of the homes in Baton Rouge flooded by storms (almost 30,000) were not located in the high-risk flood zones where lenders require homeowners to have flood insurance. Many of these homeowners did not have flood insurance to help them recover. That’s why FEMA recommends that every homeowner buy flood insurance (renters, we’ll have advice for you below). “If you live in an area with low or moderate flood risk,” says FEMA, “you are five times more likely to experience flood than a fire in your home over the next 30 years.”

Beyond the large-scale storms and floods that you hear about on the news, evaluate your space. Check your plumbing, common fixtures like radiators, and sprinkler systems periodically and fix any leaks. Check out these tips from CERF+ on protecting your work space from flooding, in general and immediately prior to a potential flood. While this checklist caters towards visual artists with studio spaces, it is applicable for artists of all disciplines who want to protect the spaces in which they work and live.

Safeguard Your Records and Your Work

In addition to your creative work, take care to protect your records from water damage. Losing documents related to the business side of your practice, such as receipts, contracts, grant award letters, and other tax and legal documentation could take time and money to replace. It could also prevent you from taking advantage of post-disaster emergency grants and other arts and business opportunities. This kind of documentation is just as essential to your practice as the materials relating to your ongoing creative work, like prototypes, drafts, and collaborator information. A novelist who has lost an important draft of their book with feedback from a critique partner, a dancer who has lost access to a collaboration agreement, and a printmaker whose prints have been damaged during a hurricane would all testify to the importance of preserving all aspects of an artistic practice, from start to finish.

Here are a few key best practices to follow:

Take stock of what you have by creating an inventory of your work and important items. This list will come in handy should you ever need to file an insurance claim or apply for an emergency grant.

Don’t store your work or documents in basements, and protect items from moisture from above and below.

Essential documents and copies of your work should be stored in what CERF+ calls a “Safe Off-site Location,” which is 50-100 miles away from your home or studio.

Scan important physical copies. Store these and digital files in multiple places, including Google Drive or the Cloud, an external hard drive, or a flash drive. Do periodic backups.

Get Insured and Check Your Paperwork

Your arts career is too valuable to not be insured properly or fully. If you have homeowner’s or renter’s insurance, verify that that insurance covers your “business property”—for example, your studio space in your home or apartment—as well as artwork and other valuables. Read the fine print of your contract and contact a representative from your insurance agency to double check. You may need to consider any of the following options: an in-home business owner’s policy, a business rider on your existing homeowner’s plan, or a separate business insurance policy.

Another critical loophole? Flood damage isn’t covered by many homeowner, renter, and business policies, as a distinction is made between water that rises from below, as opposed to water damage driven by wind or through a damaged roof. As we saw above with the residents of Baton Rouge, it’s “better safe than sorry” when it comes to being insured against floods.

Select Resources

We hope you feel ready to protect your arts career from floods. Remember, it’s ok to work bit-by-bit to achieve a sufficient level of preparedness. Start by exploring the resources below on flood insurance, emergency resources, and the inventory process.

CERF+’s Artists “Get Ready” Grants and Insurance Hub, including “Flood Insurance for Artists”

FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program

NYFA Source Emergency Resources Portal

Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Creating a Living Legacy (CALL) Initiative: Career Documentation for the Visual Artist: An Archive Planning Workbook and Resource Guide

Dance Heritage Coalition Artist’s Legacy Toolkit

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works: Wiki for Preservation of Time-Based and Electronic Media

- Mirielle Clifford, Program Officer, Online Resources

Visit NYFA’s full list of emergency resources on NYFA Source, a free directory of over 12,000 opportunities, grants, and services for individual artists nationwide. This post is the first in a series of articles, Protect Your Work, and will be supplemented with a How to Recover from an Emergency series.

You can find more articles on preparedness and other arts career topics by visiting the Business of Art section of NYFA’s website. Sign up for NYFA News and receive artist resources and upcoming events straight to your inbox.

Image: Swoon (Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design ’13); Golnar Adili (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books, IAP Mentor ’14, ’18), Folded Chaos, paper sculpture incorporating books and journals damaged by Hurricane Sandy flooding.

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HANDS UP (3 Variations) Mixed Media on Paper 22x30 inches (56x76cm)

Views of HANDS UP (3 variations) at Galerie Mark Hachem’s booth at Plan B Art Fair at David Zwirner’s W 21st location in NYC, March 6-9, 2019. The artwork was exhibited alongside powerful works by Nasreddin Bennacer, Mahmoud Hamadani, and Golnar Adili.

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15. Constructing Identities

Golnar Adili ( showed at the CVA last year)

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Remembering Tehan: A Decade’s Review

An artist lecture with Golnar Adili

 Metro’s Center for Visual Arts, hosted Golnar Adili, one of the artist whose work is currently showing in their exhibition, Presence. Presence highlights the experience of Middle Eastern American artists and their different manifestations and various experiences of displacement as well as the challenges of cross cultural integration. Adili traveled back to her home Tehan on an artist grant. Through fresh eyes upon her return, Adili noticed the vast discrepancies between women’s experiences inside and outside of the home. She began to record her experience visually with photographs, documenting her travels and life, recording them in an informal journal. This medium allowed her to quite naturally and authentically trace her experience, and further experiment by manipulating the images to reflect the psychological quality of these reflections. This process lead to her ultimate arrival with this series, Remembering Tehan: A Decade’s Review, which consists of several large scale photographs cut and reconfigured along with additional similar or contrasting images. The images cut vertically and repositioned together creates a visual manipulation and natural distortion of the scenes. This visual distortion seems to reflect Adili’s internal experience of displacement from her home, Tehan, and reintegration into a foreign culture, especially from a female perspective. Through this reintegration our memory and identity transforms and is manipulated, looking on to the past is distorted through the lens of our various experiences and conjured through photographs. Adili’s closeness by means of her tactile hand-made relationship with her pieces, as well as the natural closeness and intimacy of the subject matter, imbues her work with depth and impact which came through quite clearly in her work and was further enriched by hearing her speak to her process, her thoughts, and resolutions.

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Books On Books Collection - Farah K. Behbehani

Books On Books Collection – Farah K. Behbehani

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Monday Motivation | Beware of the Machines!

Kick off your week with Monday Motivation!

Tip of the week

When you send out your resume and cover letter, the first ones to scan them might not be real people, but algorithms! And making a good impression on pieces of code can be a lot trickier than impressing human beings. When submitting electronic applications, make sure to track the most important parts of the job description and requirements, and then use the same words and phrases on your materials. But don't forget to be strategic and use these repetitions with moderation!

This week’s highlighted jobs:

Exhibition Designer High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA

Associate Director, Research & Academic Program Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, MA

Windgate Curator of Contemporary Craft and Design Fellowship ASU Art Museum Tempe, AZ

Visitor Services and Events Manager Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis St. Louis, MO

Museum Educator Thomas Cole National Historic Site Catskill, NY

This week’s highlighted opportunities:

Call for Entries: Outbound IA&A at Hillyer Washington, DC

Summer Public Art / Community Arts Residency  Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center Solomons, MD

Call for Applications - Summer Art Residency California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA

Battlefield 2 Pop-up Exhibition Call for Artwork Femaninjas Brooklyn, NY

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Image: Golnar Adili (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts ’09), Benshinanad, 2008, Paper

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Meditations in Longing LOS ANGELES — The writer Rebecca Solnit once wrote, “Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn’t catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don’t exist.” For artists Golnar Adili and Samira Yamin, the process of remembering is no less imprecise.

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Books On Books Collection - Rana Abou Rjeily

Books On Books Collection – Rana Abou Rjeily

Cultural Connectives تواصل الثقافات  (2011) Cultural Connectives = تواصل الثقافات / Cultural connectives = Tawaṣṣul al-thaqāfāt (2011)Rana Abou RjeilyDustjacket/poster, casebound, decorative doublures, sewn, endbands. H235 x W195 mm. 112 pages. Acquired from Medimops, 23 November 2022. Rana Abou Rjeily’s is not the only attempt to adapt Arabic to the printing press as Cecil Hourani and Mourad…

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Spring Solo Exhibitions of Visual Fellows 2012

All exhibitions are at the Hudson D. Walker Gallery from 6-8pm.

Feb. 3rd: Rob Swainston

Feb. 10th: Jeannie Simms

Feb. 17th: Candice Lin

Feb. 24th: Nichols des Cognets

Mar 2: Sarah Sohn

March 9th: Jacolby Swatterwhite

March 16: Jarrod Beck

March 23: Jonathan Ehrenberg

April 6: Andy Ness

April 13: Golnar Adili

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Books On Books Collection - Golnar Adili

Books On Books Collection – Golnar Adili

Baabaa Aab Daad (Father Gave Water) (2020) Baabaa Aab Daad (Father Gave Water) (2020)Golnar AdiliWood, felt, board and cloth, 5 x 7 x 1.5 inches (closed), Edition of 25. Acquired from the artist, 1 July 2022Photos: Books On Books Collection unless indicated otherwise. Displayed with artist’s permission. Helpfully for a Western audience, the box cover of this homage to the traditional Persian…

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Announcing | Participants in the 2018-19 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual & Multidisciplinary Arts

Meet this year’s participants!

Through the support of Deutsche Bank, The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce the participants in the 2018-19 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts.

NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program pairs immigrant artists working in a variety of disciplines with artist mentors who provide one-on-one support for their artistic practice, guiding their mentees to achieve specific goals and providing them with broader access to the New York cultural world through an exchange of ideas, resources, and experiences.

2018-19 Participants and Disciplines:

Mentee Bifoli 2, Visual (Taiwan), paired with Mentor Armita Raafat, Visual (Iran)

Mentee Ololade Adeniyi, Visual (Nigeria), paired with Mentor Alicia Grullón, Multidisciplinary (United States)

Mentee Yael Ben-Simon, Visual (Israel), paired with Mentor Marco Scozzaro, Visual/Multidisciplinary (Italy)

Mentee Julia Brandão, Multidisciplinary (Brazil), paired with Mentor Rosemarie Fiore, Visual/Multidisciplinary (United States)

Mentee Riaki Enyama, Visual (Japan), paired with Mentor Jennifer Schmidt Visual/Multidisciplinary (United States)

Mentee Ana Maria Farina, Visual (Brazil), paired with Mentor Sophia Chizuco, Visual (Japan)

Mentee Floor Grootenhuis, Visual (Kenya), paired with Mentor Sue Jeong Ka, Visual/Multidisciplinary (South Korea)

Mentee Sarah Zarina Hakani, Visual (India), paired with Mentor Golnar Adili, Visual (Iran)

Mentee Ziyu He, Multidisciplinary (China), paired with Mentor Sophie Kahn, Visual (United States).

Mentee Sizhu Li, Multidisciplinary (China), paired with Mentor Dain DeltaDawn, Visual (United States)

Mentee Orr Menirom, Visual (Israel), paired with Mentor Elise Rasmussen, Visual (Canada)

Mentee Maryam Mir, Multidisciplinary (Canada/Kashmir), paired with Mentor Kit Yi Wong, Multidisciplinary (Hong Kong/China)

Mentee Nazanin Noroozi, Visual (Iran), paired with Mentor Kakyoung Lee, Visual/Multidisciplinary (South Korea)

Mentee Robert O’Shea, Multidisciplinary (Ireland), paired with Mentor Larry Krone, Visual (United States)

Mentee Masahito Ono, Visual (Japan), paired with Mentor Helen Dennis, Visual (UK)

Mentee Ernesto Ortiz Leyva, Visual (Mexico), paired with Mentor Takuji Hamanaka, Visual (Japan)

Mentee Supermrin, Multidisciplinary (India), paired with Mentor Daniela Kostova, Multidisciplinary (Bulgaria)

Mentee Lyto Triantafyllidou, Visual (Greece), paired with Mentor Kuldeep Singh, Visual/Multidisciplinary (India)

Mentee Htet T San, Visual (Myanmar), paired with Mentor Zohar Kfir, Visual (Israel)

Mentee Hanae Utamura, Visual (Japan), paired with Mentor Nooshin Rostami, Visual (Iran)

Mentee Luisa Valderrama, Visual (Colombia), paired with Mentor Katya Grokhovsky, Multidisciplinary (Ukraine/Australia)

Mentee Chen Wang, Multidisciplinary (China), paired with Mentor Luiza Kurzyna, Visual/Multidisciplinary (Poland)

Mentee Tina Wang, Multidisciplinary (Taiwan), paired with Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Visual (Jamaica)

This program is made possible with the generous support of Deutsche Bank.

Click here for more information on the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. And don’t forget to sign up for the monthly Con Edison IAP Newsletter to receive opportunities and events as well as artist features directly to your inbox.

Image: 2018-19 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual & Multidisciplinary Arts, Meet the Mentors, January 2019, Photo Credit: Htet San

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Announcing the Participants in the 2020 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts

The newest Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program cohort brings together 21 artists from 16 countries and regions.

Through the support of Deutsche Bank, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce the participants in the 2020 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts, presented in collaboration with New York cultural partners Assembly Room, BRIC, Eyebeam, New York Live Arts, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA), Wave Hill, and UrbanGlass.

2020 Participants and Disciplines:

Mentee Zeshan Ahmed, Visual (India), paired with Mentor Marco Scozzaro, Visual (Italy).

Mentee Ekaterina Akuma, Visual (Russia), paired with Mentor Golnar Adili, Visual (Iran).

Mentee Ivana Brenner, Visual (Argentina), paired with Mentor Inna Babaeva, Visual (Ukraine).

Mentee Hedwig Brouckaert, Visual (Belgium), paired with Mentor Zahra Nazari, Visual (Iran).

Mentee Zorica Colic, Multidisciplinary (Serbia), paired with Mentor Luiza Kurzyna, Multidisciplinary (Poland).

Mentee Carin Kulb Dangot, Visual (Brazil), paired with Mentor Armita Raafat, Visual (Iran).

Mentee Bel Falleiros, Visual (Brazil), paired with Mentor Keren Anavy, Visual (Israel).

Mentee Nathier Fernandez, New Media (Colombia), paired with Mentor Claudia Sohrens, Visual (Germany).

Mentee Vinay Hira, Visual (New Zealand), paired with Mentor Christopher Ho, Visual (Hong Kong).

Mentee Hyun Jung Ahn, Visual (South Korea), paired with Mentor Fay Ku, Visual (Taiwan).

Mentee Jaejoon Jang, Visual (South Korea), paired with Mentor Larry Krone, Multidisciplinary (United States).

Mentee Ae Yun Kim, Visual (South Korea), paired with Mentor Cecile Chong, Visual (Ecuador).

Mentee Geuryung Lee, Visual (South Korea), paired with Mentor Kakyoung Lee, Visual (South Korea).

Mentee Jiaoyang Li, Multidisciplinary (China), paired with Mentor Jennifer Schmidt, Visual (United States).

Mentee Spandita Malik, Visual (India), paired with Mentor Sarah Walko, Visual (United States).

Mentee Levan Mindiashvili, Visual (Georgia), paired with Mentor Liliya Lifanova, Multidisciplinary (Kyrgyzstan).

Mentee j.p.mot, Multidisciplinary (Canada), paired with Mentor Antonio Serna, Visual (United States).

Mentee Bat-Ami Rivlin, Visual (Israel), paired with Mentor Daniela Kostova, Visual (Bulgaria).

Mentee Ghislaine Sabiti, Visual (Democratic Republic of Congo), paired with Mentor Yvette Molina, Visual (United States).

Mentee Leila Seyedzadeh, Visual (Iran), paired with Mentor Poppy DeltaDawn, Visual (United States).

Mentee Sofia Luisa Suazo Monsalve, Multidisciplinary (Chile), paired with Mentor Sophie Kahn, Visual (United States).

This program is made possible with the support of Deutsche Bank.

Click here for more information on the Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. And don’t forget to sign up for the monthly Con Edison IAP Newsletter to receive opportunities and events as well as artist features directly to your inbox.

Image: 2020 Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Visual & Multidisciplinary Arts, Introduction Meeting, January 2020; Art in Background: Hannah Berry, A is also for ..., 2020, acrylic paint on wall