PRESENTATION OF IMAF - INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION ART FESTIVAL

Presentation ofIMAF, which is an annual competition on Video, Visual Arts, Music, Literature. The 2010-2011 is the first year this competition takes place and the theme is “Art your Food”. The choice of food as base of the 2010-2011 IMAF is due to the fact it is an element that all the different cultures have in common and so it is a good way to make artists reflect upon the current idea of multiculture. The organizational committee will choose and public on the website the names of the forty finalists (ten for every category) and the public will be able to vote his favourite one. In the end the four winners and one artist elected by the public will be rewarded.During the presentation of IMAF an artistic performance will take place: the violist Victoria Voronyansky will play some play selections by Bach and Piazzolla and the artist Michela Martello will paint on paper inspired by this music.
Michela Martello is an Italian artist that comes from Grosseto (Italy). She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in illustration from Europe Institute of Design, after which she published works in over 30 books, primarily children's book illustrations. In 1993 she shifted her focus to painting and had her first exhibition in Milan. She gave her first New York exhibition with Flash Art in collaboration with the Guglielmo Marconi Institute. Other shows include the 2006 Emerging Women Artist Juried Exhibition, and in 2008, the group show Sacred ways, and in 2009 the 2 people show Idols and Icons at the Tria Gallery in New York.
Victoria Voronyansky is a violinist who performs regularly throughout USA, Europe, and the Middle East. She has appeared in Carneige Hall, Aspen Music Festival, and Lincoln Center, taught at The Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music, as well as with Itzak Perlman at the Perlman Music Program, and was featured in NPR and WQXR radio stations. She has collaborated with Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, and Gil Shaham.In addition to her extensive solo performance schedule, Ms Voronyansky currently serves as Artistic Co-Director and violist of the Dorian Camber Players NYC, and runs private teaching studios in Bucks Country, Pennsylvania and New York City. She holds Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School. For more information visit www. redviola.comR.S.V.P. 212 879 4242 ext. 366