Sometimes genre cannot hold an artist, and their gift for telling a story spontaneously overrides the confines of traditional form. William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., is just such an artist, and on Friday night an excited audience jammed Space on White in New York City to celebrate his work.
Many of us in New York spend [...]

I’m delighted to share news of the Interstitial Arts Foundation’s movement and growth this past year. With your help, we were able to lend our support and promotion to more artists, reach wider audiences in new locations, and begin an exciting new project. As we head into 2013, I invite you to join us by [...]

This is the first in a series of interviews with the editors, curators, and supporters of the Interstitial Arts – the people who help artists get their work to an audience.  Today we’re interviewing Mike Allen, long-time IAF member and editor of last year’s March Madness on our blog.
IAF:   Can you introduce yourself and give [...]

We’re thrilled to announce that longtime IAFer Tempest Bradford is starting up a monthly salon in New York City! The salon will have it first event on June 26th and meet every 4th Tuesday thereafter.
It should go without saying that artists and art-lovers of all types are welcome. Feel free to bring calling cards, business [...]

Recently, we posted about interstitial artist and sound art pioneer Liz Phillips’ new work Biyuu, featuring Butoh dancer Mariko Endo Reynolds. This weekend on June 2nd and 3rd  you will have the opportunity to see it in Brooklyn at Roulette’s magnificent new space at 509 Atlantic Avenue at 8 PM. To recap: Liz Phillips will explore [...]

On the Interstitial (or not) Nature of My Poems
by C.S.E. Cooney
The question I had to ask myself beginning this blog was, “How is abook of unabashedly fantastical poetry at all interstitial?”
In a way, How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes is the exact opposite of interstitial – at least, the way I understand [...]

[Guest blogger Eleanor Lang sums up twenty years of experience in Part 4 of her four-part series on publicity. She previously shared her wisdom in Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Thank you, Eleanor!]
Publicity: The Final Frontier
You know what publicity is. You know about the basic tools and how to use them. So what [...]

Happy April, friends! The IAF is thrilled to have independent marketing and PR professional Eleanor Lang as a guest blogger for a four-part series on publicity. Yes, that nebulous skill necessary for any artist, but particularly for interstitial ones. Check back each week for the next installment. Thank you, Eleanor!
Publicity 101 : Why you want [...]

Fringe festivals in general are friendly to interstitial artists, and the Atlanta Fringe Festival, bursting into existence on May 9th of this year, looks like it will be a wonderful and enduring venue for interstitial artists in years to come. Its mission is even “to bridge the gap between the fine and performing arts by [...]

This coming Saturday, the AFA Gallery in SoHo New York is hosting artist Lin Esser for the opening of his new collection of delightfully skeletal and wryly titled tableaux!
These whimsical, macabre works evoke the eccentric subjects of English symbolism, sinister figures of the renaissance, the anthropomorphic tableaux of Victorian naturalism and the Dia de [...]

(Eds. Note: We’ve just received this announcement from IAF Working Group member Ellen Denham, who is working with the  Indy Convergence, the annual 10-day “make-a-wish foundation for artists.” You can also find out more about the Indy Convergence by reading the March 11, 2011 IAF interview with founder Caitlin Swihart — we are very [...]

Courtesy of the IAFA-L mailing list, a call for papers that should be of interest to the interstitially-minded. Hurry, though – the deadline for the initial proposal is January 7th, 2012:
CALL FOR PAPERS
TRANSITIONS AND DISSOLVING BOUNDARIES IN THE FANTASTIC
Third Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (GFF)
at the University of Zurich from 13th to [...]