iYABARTS is a multi-discipline Art Company, their goal is to create a love of self-expression through art in the urban communities around the planet.
As a master teaching artist, Iyaba created a unique syllabus of classes with a focus on indigenous art and what they call green-art created using recycled materials.
Website: http://www.iyabarts.com/
IYABA– (203) 685 1309 iyabarts@gmail.com
SINA– (203) 434-1214 synncyty@yahoo.com
Address: 164 Fairfield Avenue, Stamford, CT 06902
IYABA IBO MANDINGO
poet, painter, writer, actor and playwright – is a native of Antigua, West Indies, who came to the United States in 1980 as a young boy. His earliest exposures to the arts were through his mother, a professional singer, and his grandparents, a tailor and a seamstress who first introduced him to colors and patterns, paving a path to the many ways of expression: drawing, painting, sculpting, writing and performing. Iyaba studied fine arts at Southern Connecticut State University and today teaches in and around the tri-state area as a Master Teaching Artist.
Iyaba appears regularly as a performance poet in venues across the United States and abroad, including Nuyorican Poetry Café, Brooklyn Moon, and Next Door Café among others in the NY area and was the keynote performer at the 2011 Westchester, NY Poetry Festival. He was recently seen at 59E59 in Deb Margolin’s The Expenses of Rain(Laura Barnett, director). He is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, 41 Times, Amerikkan Exile and his latest, 40 days & 40 nites of write. His new novel, Sins of My Fathers, will be released in 2013. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Summer, 2011 Artist in Residence.
Iyaba was awarded a national Percent for the Arts Program artist grant, as well as grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and multiple commendations from the Nassau County African American Museum. His artwork has been included in over a dozen group and individual shows across the planet.
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