New York Lunar New Year Flower Festival: Year of The Tiger
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February 08, 2010
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Dates: Friday, February 12, 2010 from 10:00am – 10:00pm AND Saturday, February 13, 2010 from 10:00am – 7:00pm
Location: Sara D. Roosevelt Park in Chinatown, New York City.
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, the Arts Centre will be joining Asian Americans For Equality at the New York Lunar New Year Flower Festival which will be held for 2 days at the at Sara D. Roosevelt Park at Chinatown, New York on Friday to Saturday, February 12 – 13, 2010.
AAAC’s booth will be presenting artists include: Rose Sigal-Ibsen, calligrapher, Kavita Vyas - an Indian Mehandi hand painting artist, Karen K. Ahn, Korean Macreme, Shao Hua Yu, Grass Animal Figurine Master Artist, Ming Liang Lu, Mater Papercutter. Truong Duong, Fortune Teller, and Jampa Youden, a Tibetan Folk Singer will be performing a selection of folk songs on stage.
Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists who demonstrate their crafts and will have the opportunity to ask questions, make requests and the chance to learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft and to enjoy traditional folk singing. This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances will delight both old and young alike. Festival admission is FREE!
Re/Siting Asian American Studies: Connecting Critical Approaches In The Field
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February 08, 2010
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TIME: 9AM - 6PM
LOCATION: RUTGERS STATE UNI. OF NEW JERSEY, Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
ADMISSION: FREE
Asian American Studies emerged out of the radical changes taking place in US universities in the 1960s amid the Civil Rights movements. Since then, the field has continued to explore the racialization and history of Asian-descent peoples, both within the United States and beyond by examining the various ways disparate groups have entered the coalitional term within and without national, racial, gender, sexual, and cultural borders. For the first time, this conference brings leaders in Asian American Studies in conversation with Rutgers faculty to highlight three current developments in the field: Connective and Comparative Race Histories, Visual and Performative Cultures, and Trans-regionalism. These three developments mark the cutting-edge approaches of this forty-year old field. Along with the three panels, the final roundtable invites two senior founding directors of institutes at NYU and Brown University to discuss with faculty from Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers-Newark the research imperatives for Asian American Studies unique to our region. In recent years, the endeavors of the undergraduate-led Asian American Leadership Cabinet and the Asian American Cultural Center have dovetailed with the work of the Collective for Asian American Scholarship, made up of faculty and graduate students across disciplines-- American Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, English, History, Music, and Women’s and Gender Studies-- in growing a unique transnational and connective Asian American Studies at Rutgers. With this conference we forge these linkages with interventions from key senior scholars from across the United States. |
For more information, please visit the website.
China on the Way to Modernization (From the Republic to the Present)
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December 07, 2009
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‘A Case Study on Inheritance and Development of Jingdezhen Ceramic Craftsmanship.’
走向现代化的中国 - 以景德镇的陶瓷手工艺传承为例
DATE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009, 7PM
LOCATION: UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT AT HOUSTON STREET CENTER, 273 BOWERY
ENTRY: FREE
The talk will explain Dr. Fang's understanding of how tradition and cultural heritage have presented new sources of economic growth. Jindezhen is the case study because its traditional ceramic craftsmanship and the culture system based on it were attacked and essentially overthrown by a modern, industrial system. The craft persisted and was well preserved in the new culture. MORE...
Out Of The Archive: PROCESS & PROGESS
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September 09, 2009
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Curated by Angel Velasco Shaw
Opening Reception:
Friday September 18th 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: AAAC, 23 Bowery, NYC
Gallery Talk with Artists & Scholars:
Wednesday October 7th 6 - 8pm.
Location: WHITE BOX 329 Broome St. NYC
Artists: Albert Chong, John Yoyogi Fortes, Swati Khurana, and Tomie Arai.
Writers: Jan Christian Bernabe, Karen Su, Karlyn Koh, Midori Yoshimoto, and Sarita Echavez See.
To commemorate the thirty-fifth year of mounting arts in a community context, the Asian American Arts Centre presents “Out of the Archive: Process and Progress,” a major exhibition program. It aims to draw attention to the AAAC Artists Archive and its recently launched digital archive - artasiamerica.org. This program includes a special exhibition installation, a gallery talk, a catalogue, several essayists, and online interactive events and opportunities for the audience. The digital archive, a major undertaking over two years in the making, consists of about 10% of the total 1,500 Asian American artists entries in the original archive, which reflects the last 60 years and several generations of artistic production.
The four artists presented, Tomie Arai, Albert Chong, John Yoyogi Fortes, and Swati Khurana, have been selected from a review of all the artists posted in artasiamerica.org by guest curator Angel Velasco Shaw. The printed catalogue has been edited and coordinated by Sarita Echavez See who selected four writers to participate with her in reviewing the artists' work: Karen Su, Karlyn Koh, and Jan Christian Bernabe. AAAC seeks to expand the ways in which it has presented Asian American art in a community context. Expanding our approach to the literary arts, we are introducing a critical writing component in order to draw upon literary and cultural criticism for visual interpretive and critical thinking.
artasiamerica.org : launched!
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July 28, 2009
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artasiamerica, the digital archive is finally launched! Go to www.artasiamerica.org.
This effort is just the beginning. As we work with more and more artists, organizations, galleries, we'll move closer towards our goal of making the archive of artasiamerica search-able, discoverable, and accessible online.
Computer Art Residency
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July 25, 2009
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Artist: Jiawei Gong
Location: Immigrant Social Service (ISS)
Sponsored by Asian American Arts Centre with support from a collaboration with Immigrant Social Service, the artist Jiawei Gong will be in residence for this week from July 27 to July 31, 2009 Monday to Friday daily from 3pm to 6pm at the Immigrant Social Service at 137 Henry St. He will install some of his new art work as it is developing and work on his computer in the basement community space of Immigrant Social Services where local teenagers gather daily. During the Residency he will interact with these teenager on a casual, informal basis, spending time with them, answering their questions and curiosity, and in this way introduce young people to creativity & how technology can be used to further creative goals.
More about Jiawei Gong can be found at www.jiaweigong.com Read more on AAAC & its programs at www.artspiral.org. Immigrant Social Services, Inc. programs can be view at www.issnyonline.org
Jiawei Gong "Liquid Emotions"
HOME MADE: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand
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June 23, 2009
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Date: Wed, July 8th 2009 | Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Admission: Free; donations are welcome.

Since the first gold-seekers arrived in New Zealand in the 1860s, Chinese have been regarded as outsiders to discussions of national identity. The absence of a recognizable Chinatown in New Zealand has meant that many of the Chinese customs inherited from early Cantonese settlers are observed in private within the family home. This condition coupled with emerging research and exposure on the topic offers a chance to define Chinese spaces and author Chinese stories from within the local community.
Kerry Ann Lee is an artist, designer and educator based in Wellington, New Zealand. Her work: Home Made: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand celebrates an alternative cultural history through cut-paper, paint, found text and images. Mixed media collages, paper-cuttings and a lavishly illustrated artist book, explore both personal and local experiences of Chinese settlement in New Zealand, both the Chinese face behind the takeout counter and the home customs housed behind the plastic ribbon curtain.
This articulate and heartfelt body of work comprising of original collages, paper cuts, prints and installation work, toured as a national exhibition in New Zealand between August 2008 – March 2009 and gathered public attention with feature appearances on Asia Down Under and Saturday with Kim Hill. Paper-cuttings from the exhibition featured as a selected finalist work in the Wallace Art Awards 2008 at The New Dowse Art Museum. Kerry Ann will also be undertaking an artist residency at the Island6 Arts Centre in Shanghai in September 2009.
The talk will provide an overview of the project and expands the discussion on the Cantonese Diaspora to focus on the Chinese settlement in New Zealand.
A limited edition of the Home Made artist book will be available for purchase at the forum.
Kerry Ann Lee’s visit is generously supported by Fulbright New Zealand and the New Zealand Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust. This event is organized by Adliana Bahrin, program manager at the AAAC.
ART SLAM!
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June 22, 2009
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Participating Artists: Hwa Hyun Kim, Kerry Ann Lee, Nung-Hsen Hu, and Xiaoqing Ding.

For the past several years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held a series of slide/art slams, allowing emerging artists the opportunity to present and talk about their work, meet and network with each other as well as with more established artists and critics/curators. Last year, the Centre hosted two slide slams, showcasing the work of nine artists working in various media.
On Friday, July 3rd, Asian American Arts Centre will be hosting the annual ART SLAM, showcasing the work of emerging Asian-American & Asia influenced artists.
Admission is FREE. EVERYONE is invited. This event is organized by Adliana Bahrin.
The ART SLAM Series is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and from The New York Department of Cultural Affairs. The Asian American Arts Centre was founded in 1974 in New York City as a not-for-profit organization to address the distinctive concerns of Asian Americans in the United States. Its mission is to promote the preservation and creative vitality of Asian American cultural growth through the arts, and its historical and aesthetic linkage to other communities.
Top Google Search: June 4 1989 art is AAAC!
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June 08, 2009
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CHINA: JUNE 4, 1989
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June 04, 2009
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Date: June 4, 2009
On June 5, 1989, in response to the massacre of the students in Tiananmen Square, the Asian American Arts Centre in NY initiated a year long exhibition that eventually brought over 300 artists to participate, drawing attention to this historic tragedy. After the exhibit traveled to several sites over the next few years and the calls to have it and the informative materials that accompanied it died away, the exhibition and the art work that it encompassed lay dormant. Now, on the occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Student Movement this exhibition is being revised with this online exhibition for all to see. Much has passed and China may no longer be the China that it was. For this exhibition, this is not the issue. Tiananmen Square, however, must not be forgotten. So many artists came forward to give selflessly to this cause, creating innumerable memorable images...
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Asian/Pacific American Archives Survey
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May 04, 2009
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AAAC has appeared as one of the Asian/Pacific American archives survey participants on the NYU website! Go here to read more.
Made available by New York University, the Asian/Pacific American Documentary Heritage Archives Survey project is the first systematic attempt to map Asian/Pacific American archival collections in the New York metropolitan area. AAAC is represented as an important archive documenting the development of New York Asian/Pacific American community and art. We are one of the rare organizations that have a professional artists' archive. The archive, currently about 1,500 artists, include Asian Americans producing art, Asian artists who are active in the United States, and other Americans who are significantly influenced by Asia.
America’s Chinatown Voices
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May 01, 2009
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Date: May 09-August 08.
Press Conference: Friday, May 8, 3pm
Opening Reception: Friday, May 14, 630-830PM
Site: Columbus Park, Chinatown, New York, NY
Artists: Nathalie Pham & Avani Patel
A special outdoor art event will occur in Columbus Park this Spring/Summer. To rally the community to come together and speak about their community. From children to seniors, in English & in Chinese, with images or without, this opportunity is for all to be heard. Especially welcome are those atuned to the decisions that face Chinatown and know that the future of Chinatown is in our hands. Their voice, ideas, and statements will be painted on panels 18x24” all around the outside gates of Columbus Park at a distance of 15-20 feet of each other. A total of about 70-80 panels will be up, Once a week the artists (and volunteers) will come in on the weekend to repaint some panels, and repaint new comments and thoughts on the panels. On the weekends an Open Day where the artists will attend the installation and invite community members to write down their comments on the panels. Read more at www.artspiral.org/new.html
Each panel will have an email address or phone where the community can email the artist their thoughts and comments to be posted the next week.
Volunteers are welcome to sign up and help to mount this extensive weekly effort by contacting Nat@npham.com or aaacinfo@artspiral.org











