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  "textContent": "◼️\n\nReach an influential audience of art world professionals and enthusiasts. Distribute your announcements and elevate your profile with Kinoki Notices. Contact us for rates → ****office[at]kinoki.co****\n\n**New Partnership Model Strengthens Collaboration Across the Cultural Landscape—ArteEast, Kinoki, IMPULSE, and Cultbytes—and Anoushka Bhalla Announced as New Development Officer**\n\nFor its third edition, in New York, October- November 2026, The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB) is proud to announce a renewed and expanded approach to partnership—one that moves beyond traditional categories such as “media” or “content.” Instead, TIAB has cultivated deep and meaningful collaborations with a group of like-minded organizations who will play an active and integral role throughout the program. Rather than existing as separate or purely promotional entities, these partners will serve as connective tissue between the TIAB’s public audiences and its artistic programming. Through this model, partnerships are not simply acknowledgments of support, but dynamic sites where situated knowledge crosspollinates and partners are incorporated to enrich the overall experience of the biennial.\n\nOur 2026 partners—**ArteEast** , **Kinoki** ,**IMPULSE** , and **Cultbytes** —have been selected for their commitment to advancing culture within their respective fields of interest. ArteEast is New York’s leading organization amplifying the **a** rts related to the South West Asia North Africa (SWANA) region, Kinoki is a platform defining the culture of moving images in contemporary art, and IMPULSE and Cultbytes are both leading voices within the independent arts media sphere. IMPULSE founding editor-in-chief Xuezhu, Jenny Wang, is a multi-biennial collaborator having served as TIAB 2023: _Contact Zone_ ’s writer-in-residence. These are all organizations that are sensitive to the concerns of immigrant artists and are actively working to carve out visibility, educate diverse audiences, and develop new approaches to sustaining and evolving our shared cultural ecosystem.\n\n\"This shift reflects our belief that collaboration should be active and reciprocal, and is most powerful when rooted in shared values,” Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial commented. “Our partners are not just supporters—they are contributors, facilitators, and co-creators in shaping how audiences will experience the 2026 biennial.\"\n\nPhoto: Anoushka Bhalla. Courtesy of The Immigrant Artist Biennial.\n\nIn the midst of fundraising, TIAB welcomes a new development officer, **Anoushka Bhalla** , formerly the Director of Partnerships IMPULSE, to spearhead an initiative to secure endowments for each curator and our founding artistic director. These contributions will be vital to sustaining the biennial’s 2026 budget and ensuring the integrity of the program.\n\nBhalla, who is also an immigrant artist, has a sophisticated understanding of relationship-building across different parts of the art world. “TIAB occupies a vital space within the contemporary art ecosystem, offering a safe environment for dialogue, solidarity, and cultural exchange when immigrant artists face immense precarity and invisibility,” Bhalla commented. “What excites me most is building long-term sustainability and visibility around this mission.\"\n\n### **More About Development Officer and Partners**\n\n\n**Anoushka Bhalla** is an artist and arts professional whose work spans contemporary art, cultural strategy, development, and partnerships. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and has exhibited internationally. Alongside her studio practice, she has built a robust global network within the art market and has contributed to arts media, international outreach initiatives, sponsorship development, and relationship-building across galleries, nonprofits, artists, and cultural organizations. She served as the first Director of Development and Relations at IMPULSE, where she lead fundraising and strategic partnerships in support of the magazine's mission and public programming.\n\nSince its founding in 2003 as a NY-based arts collective specializing in Middle Eastern film programming, **ArteEast** has become a leading organization amplifying the arts related to the South West Asia North Africa (SWANA) region and its diaspora engaging with New York, U.S. and international audiences and arts communities. Independently and through strategic partnerships, ArteEast delivers in-person and virtual programs such as film screenings, exhibitions, cultural events, and online publications. These serve as a bridge that facilitate the interaction of the public with artists, filmmakers, curators, and thought leaders whose work is rooted to the SWANA region.\n\nArteEast is rooted in the belief that art is a powerful force to bridge cultural divides, fostering empathy, connection, and mutual understanding across cultures. l arteeast.org\n\n**Kinoki** was founded in 2023 by writer-curator Greg de Cuir Jr and artist-publisher Nikola Jelovac and publishes information about the expanded field of moving images in contemporary art while also providing incisive reviews of exhibitions and in-depth interviews with visionary artists and curators. Their mission is to offer our audience a comprehensive perspective on the evolving landscape of moving image art. Kinoki is committed to promoting inclusivity and equity. They strive to amplify underrepresented voices and support emerging artists, nurturing a community that values creativity, social responsibility, and sustainability**.**\n\nKinoki considers the moving image to be the most exciting, compelling and paradigmatic form of art in our screen-mediated world—there is no contemporary art without film, video, and digital art. l kinoki.co\n\n**IMPULSE Magazine** is an arts and culture publication headquartered in New York City. IMPULSE publishes experimental, in-depth reviews and interviews to push the boundaries of contemporary art criticism and theory formation and runs a rigorous round-table discussion series hosted in partner galleries and arts spaces across that focuses on discourse surrounding contemporary art, social justice, and literature.\n\nIMPULSE maintains a standard of upholding the ethos of independent journalism. l impulsemagazine.com\n\nFounded in 2014, **Cultbytes** is a female-led online art and culture news publication covering contemporary art from a broad but critical perspective.\n\nCultbytes is also a communications agency specializing in public relations informed by empathy and active engagement. Their practice centers on the development of compelling narratives, the orchestration of intentional gatherings, and the cultivation of strategic partnerships. l cultbytes.com\n\n* * *\n\n\nFor press inquiries, contact info@cultbytes.com.\nImages and all 2026 presskits.\nTo support the 2026 biennial, please consider donating through**** PayPal or get in touch for other modes.\n\nFollow @theimmigrantartistbiennial and review past**** editions at theimmigrantartistbiennial.com.",
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