Visual Artists Immigration Clinic (Guest Speaker: H. Heidi Son) (Oct. 2022)

The Visual Artists’ Immigration Clinic is designed to guide emerging and established international visual artists through the process of obtaining a visa to the United States.

Volunteer Attorneys:

• Rakhel S. Milstein | Milstein Law Group, NY
• Betina Schlossberg | Schlossberg Legal, PLLC, MI
• Cielomar Puccio | Brandlett, Puerto Rico

Are you interested in becoming a participating attorney? Please contact us at clinic@itsartlaw.org.

About the Speaker:

H. Heidi Son is the Senior Counsel, Head of Business Immigration at Murray Osorio PLLC, a full-service immigration firm. With over 10 years of immigration experience and 5 years in labor & employment law, Heidi currently manages an active caseload for a wide range of employment-based immigration cases, assisting individuals and corporations with obtaining business immigration benefits. Heidi specializes in helping individual clients to obtain temporary work visas (O-1s) and green cards (EB1-1s) based on their extraordinary ability in the fine arts, performing arts and music. To name a few, Heidi has helped sculptors, fashion artists, stage managers, DJs, writers, dancers, and pastry chefs. Heidi received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and has Bar admissions in Washington, D.C. and California. With a Fine Arts degree from Duke University, and once an aspiring artist herself, Heidi particularly enjoys working with artists and finds it most rewarding to secure their visas and green cards so that they can continue to contribute their artwork in the U.S.

Hosts:

The Center for Art Law is a Brooklyn-based research and education nonprofit that offers resources and programming for the advancement of a vibrant arts and law community. Through its website and monthly Art Law Blast newsletter, the Center disseminates information and keeps readers updated on art- and law-related news, events, cases, and publications. The Center facilitates conversations by hosting and participating in programs including conferences, workshops and clinics for visual artists, film screenings, and more. Today a world-renowned asset to the art law field, the Center serves artists, attorneys, students and scholars of both disciplines, art market professionals, and members of the general public.