New Observations is an independent, non-profit contemporary arts and culture journal that is written edited and published by the arts community in an expanded process, as a work of collaborative art.
Dedicated to bringing artists' voices to the public forum through an innovative guest edited magazine published from 1981-2001, publication resumed in 2013 with issue 129 and in 2014 with issue 130. With issue 131 in 2018 an additional focus on activism and current issues impacting the world stage became a focus. Its editorial pages have presented an extraordinary range of viewpoints and ideas reflecting the diversity within the arts, literature and pressing global needs.
Individuals speak for themselves from the inside out on in-depth thematic topics in each issue.
New Observations Magazine has featured artists working inside of visual art, poetry, essays, fiction and project based works and is a resource for the community at large, including the general public.
The journal was founded in the early 1980′s, covering New York’s provocative art scenes at the time, expanding its horizons nation wide and internationally.
According to our founder, Lucio Pozzi, “Every group of friends is unknowingly representing a complex universe of thought and it is sufficient to have its members put on the page something, anything, for a whole world to be revealed.” We intend to maintain this maxim, bringing you, while renewing each time in our pages, these platforms of complex universes of thought for thinking and living art today. We believe that you will engage with this genuine and generous enterprise, and that with every “new observation,” every new emerging thought, every new sensible field, we propose a new horizon line to be crossed together.
Mia Feroleto is a well-known art advisor, activist and artist who divides her time between Vermont and South Dakota.
She was the creator of A SHELTER FROM THE STORM: ARTISTS FOR THE HOMELESS OF NEW YORK and ARTWALK NY, an annual event for Coalition for the Homeless that has been copied all around the country since beginning in 1995. Feroleto has organized numerous benefit auctions and large-scale special events at major auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s, the Women’s Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Harvard Club in New York City.
Feroleto has served on the board of directors of such organizations as Dance Theater Workshop and Sculpture Center. More performing artists who went on to receive a Genius Award from the MacArthur Foundation got their start at Dance Theater Workshop than any other organization in America. She served on the board of directors of the Tatanka Ska Institute, the Indigenous school being founded by Paula Looking Horse, wife of Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe.
She is the publisher of New Observations Magazine, the producer/creator of HEMP NY CITY, a partner in the founding of the Thunderheart Center for the Arts in Wasta, South Dakota and the creator and producer of the Consciousness and Contact conferences that have received world-wide recognition.
Mia Feroleto is the host of the New Observations podcast on Unknown Country, the channel for all things Whitley Strieber. She is a committed animal rights and animal welfare activist. She is determined to maximize visibility for the arts and our cultural world and is currently developing the Adopt an Artist Program to send artists to destinations around the globe in order to create and develop their art. She can be reached at mia.feroleto@gmail.com
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