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Our dear friend Ig Mata, a brilliant photographer, longtime art educator and colorful character was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and needs our help, desperately.
If you can contribute to Ig's expenses and enable her to move forward with comfort and dignity, please click on Donate Now and/or Share this with your friends.
Ig Mata
Trained as a chemical engineer, Ig arrived in New York City from Rio de Janeiro in 1990, and quickly fell in love with the East Village and New York arts scene. She then made the city her home.
Ig Mata's widely successful pinhole photography workshops have been presented at the Museum of Natural History, Bank Street College for Education, Children’s Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, Children’s Aid Society, among other sites. Alternative Photography and 19th century photographic processes have been of great interest to her and Ig has been working with the ‘camera obscura’ and pinhole imagery since 1988. Ig's work has been exhibited in Brazil, Mexico and New York.
During her years in New York City, Ig has tutored troubled youth, served as pioneering artist and photographer Judy Seigel's studio assistant and confidante, and was a fixture for years at The Grand Central Holiday Fair, offering her unique portraiture.
At the end of this year, Ig must permanently return to Brazil to begin critical treatment for her condition and to be close to immediate family, who can best care for her as the disease progresses. She's been unemployed and struggling to meet her obligations since the onset of the pandemic, and because she had been in Brazil for observation and testing, is ineligible for NY unemployment benefits. Additionally, she is dealing with the strain of sorting through thirty years of belongings, including her works of art and equipment, and the cost of transporting them back to Brazil.
Ig has not asked us to do this, but we know she needs our help to make this important and stressful transition.
Sincere thanks and best wishes,
Ig's NYC family and friends
Cristina Miranda
Hilda Borem
Laurie Lewis
Nancy Sager
If you can contribute to Ig's expenses and enable her to move forward with comfort and dignity, please click on Donate Now and/or Share this with your friends.
Ig Mata
Trained as a chemical engineer, Ig arrived in New York City from Rio de Janeiro in 1990, and quickly fell in love with the East Village and New York arts scene. She then made the city her home.
Ig Mata's widely successful pinhole photography workshops have been presented at the Museum of Natural History, Bank Street College for Education, Children’s Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, Children’s Aid Society, among other sites. Alternative Photography and 19th century photographic processes have been of great interest to her and Ig has been working with the ‘camera obscura’ and pinhole imagery since 1988. Ig's work has been exhibited in Brazil, Mexico and New York.
During her years in New York City, Ig has tutored troubled youth, served as pioneering artist and photographer Judy Seigel's studio assistant and confidante, and was a fixture for years at The Grand Central Holiday Fair, offering her unique portraiture.
At the end of this year, Ig must permanently return to Brazil to begin critical treatment for her condition and to be close to immediate family, who can best care for her as the disease progresses. She's been unemployed and struggling to meet her obligations since the onset of the pandemic, and because she had been in Brazil for observation and testing, is ineligible for NY unemployment benefits. Additionally, she is dealing with the strain of sorting through thirty years of belongings, including her works of art and equipment, and the cost of transporting them back to Brazil.
Ig has not asked us to do this, but we know she needs our help to make this important and stressful transition.
Sincere thanks and best wishes,
Ig's NYC family and friends
Cristina Miranda
Hilda Borem
Laurie Lewis
Nancy Sager
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