Sylvia de Swaan, visiting instructor in art, has been awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in photography. de Swaan is one of 117 New York artists to receive a NYFA grant this year. More than 4,400 artists applied for the 2006 NYFA Fellowships in the following disciplines: architecture/environmental structures, choreography, fiction, music composition, painting, photography, playwriting/screenwriting and video. Fellows are selected by peer panels in each discipline. Eighteen photographers were among this year's fellowship recipients.
Artist fellowships are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in New York and are for unrestricted use. Artists are selected based on the single criterion, that their work demonstrates a compelling vision as defined by the assembled panel's collective opinion. According to the New York Foundation of the Arts Web site, "Artists selected for the highly competitive NYFA Artists' Fellowships are among the most talented originating artists working today."
During the last year, de Swaan's work has been reproduced in two international photography magazines and exhibited at Colgate University.
