IMAFestival first edition is finished!
IMAFestival First Edition is finished. We would like to thank all the artists that participated in the contest and in EAT ART Exhibition, the performers, the sponsors, supporters and partners, the locations that hosted our events, everybody that worked with us and last, but not least the audiences of the three cities that attended our manifestation! FULL STORY

And the Winner is.....
"My Mother's Recipe" created by Paola Citterio won the audience award of the International Migration Art Festival - New York obtaining the most votes from the web visitors and the audience present on the 3rd of May. Congratulations Paola! FULL STORY

EAT ART Exhibition - Review
The International Migration Art Festival has come to New York with the exhibition “Eat Art – When Food Becomes Art,” drawing on the relationship between food and migration. FULL STORY

Georgia Cee
IMAFestival invited internationally renown artist Georgia Cee to perform both in New York and Los Angeles Big Closing Event. She brought to IMAF audience a collection of songs from her new R&B album and also a few Italian traditional songs as a special gift for the occasion. FULL STORY

Nicola Cesare Baldrighi - President of Grana Padano Consortium
Grana Padano and IMAF. On one hand, a world class Italian food, on the other a festival that aims to promote and talk about the talent of different cultures through art and food, both nationally and internationally. Grana Padano is in fact one of the protagonists of the exhibition EAT ART (open from April 25 to May 3 at the Wook Gallery in New York, and then May 26 - 31 and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, at the end of IMAFestival USA) thanks to the artist Michela Martello, and the famous "form" has drawn inspiration for her painting Route 55. FULL STORY

Choi Wook
Wook&Lattuada Art Gallery presented in New York from the 25th of April to the 3rd of May the Exhibition EAT ART featuring works by Alessandro Bazan, Paola Citterio, Ciriaca+Erre, Silvio Giordano, Julia Krahn, Michela Martello, Lucia Pescador, Ludmilla Radchenko.
Here is the interview to Choi Wook, owner of the Gallery:
"I was born and raised in Seoul, Korea – a city which has now been revived, phoenix-like, from the rubble of the Korean War. Throughout the 1980s, however, an extended period of political turmoil and civil unrest prompted me to apply to a Master’s Program at New York University. And since I made the move..." FULL STORY

Francesco Maria Talo', Italian Consul General in New York
In my opinion, the term migrant is more appropriate than emigrant or immigrant, due to its universal connotation that goes beyond the direction of the movement of the person. In my case, for instance, I am, somehow, a migrant considering how my profession has taken me around the world, yet I have a strong bond with my native country, Italy. This, I believe, is a fundamental element: the safeguard of our identity, or better the several identities that might coexist in us. FULL STORY

Simonetta Magnani, Attache' for Cultural Affairs Italian Cultural Institute New York
the migrant is someone who leaves his or her native place for lack of employment and goes in search of a better life in another country. Yet, in a broader sense, the migrant is a person who finds the courage to risk, looking for new opportunities and a better future. FULL STORY

Joseph Chamie, Director of Research at the Center for Migration Studies
Generally speaking, the term migrant refers to one who has moved from one place and settled into another. In may be an internal movement from one region to another or across an international border. In many instances, the term migrant refers to an immigrant. FULL STORY