Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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JULY 28, 2009



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.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Computer Art Residency

JULY 27 - JULY 31, 2009

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"
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
HOME MADE: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand

Artist Talk by Kerry Ann Lee
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.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
ART SLAM!

Date: Friday, July 3rd 2009 | Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
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.

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Monday, June 8, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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Online Exhibition - website
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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Monday, May 4, 2009
Asian/Pacific American Archives Survey



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.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
America’s Chinatown Voices

“ 藝匯唐人街 “
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

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Monday, April 27, 2009
AAAC at the CAPA Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival

"The 29th Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival Heritage Festival is a unique event in New York City, bringing together various Asian Pacific American organizations and individuals to celebrate Asian America. "

Date: Saturday May 3 2009, from 12pm – 6pm
Venue: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
47th Street between 1st & 2ed Ave.
Festival Admission: FREE!

Asian American Arts Centre is pleased to present a selection of folk artists demonstrating their art during 30th Annual CAPA Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival.

Featuring a variety of Folk artists from different backgrounds, five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. As for this year, the artists joining Asian American Arts Centre are:

Kavita Vyas - Mehandi artist
Ye Xun : Dough figurine master artist
Ming Liang Lu: master paper cutter of portraits
Jampa Youden : a Tibetan folk singer who also does traditional jewelry design.
Rose Sigal Ibsen : Sumi-e Calligraphy Artist

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! Go here to read more about our folk artists.

This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances will delight both old and young alike. See you there this weekend!
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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Date: March 23, 2009
Location: South St. Seaport Museum, New York, NY

AAAC education programs will be featured at Cool Culture on March 26 at South St Seaport Museum called Crafting the Teachable Moment. Come and experience AAAC culturally diverse approach to art education. Or book a tour of AAAC gallery directly through aaacinfo@artspiral.org You can become conscious of what is learned visually, intuitively.

Go here for more information on Cool Culture. Look out for latest updates on our website.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tibetan Thangka Paintings Exhibition (Extended)



**The exhibition of Tibetan Thangka Paintings is extended towards the end of March!**

EXHIBITION OF TIBETAN THANGKA PAINTINGS
JANUARY 26 - MARCH 31, 2009

The exhibition of high quality Tibetan Thangka paintings will be on view during this festival. The dates of the exhibition are January 26 till March 13, 2009. Thangka paintings usually depict deities and saints, aspects of the life of the Buddha, as well as the more abstract Mandalas, astrological charts, medical descriptions and scenes, usually serving as a supplementary aid to religious educational development. They are meant as focal elements for visualization, meditation and contemplation. A talk by Lama Tenzin Yignyen is expected at the opening reception.

For further information, see under Current Exhibition at www.artspiral.org.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Abstractions and Contractions at LumenHouse

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Abstractions and Contractions
Curated by Eun Young Choi

March 7 – March 29, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, March 7, 2009,  6 - 9pm

Exhibiting Artists:
Lisha Bai, Ivin Ballen, Ethan Greenbaum, Geujin Han, Benjamin S. Jones, Sandra Eula Lee, Zaun Lee, Aurora Robson, Aili Schmeltz, Sun You

LUMENHOUSE
47 Beaver Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206  718.942.5395  lumenhouse.com
Gallery Hours: Sat & Sun 12 – 6pm and by appointment
(J,M train to Flushing Avenue stop)

Abstractions and Contractions brings together ten exciting artists whose work deal with the complex process of creating varying degrees of abstract work. The word abstraction may bring to mind the act of considering something as a general characteristic, a secret removal, or an unrealistic and visionary idea. Contraction may refer to a shortening or thickening of muscle fibers, a stage in wound healing, or a decrease in economic growth. Although they are two very different words the result of abstracting or contracting something may converge on some common ground, an end product that is more constricted, reduced, and condensed yet more compelling, expanded and intensified.

Abstraction in art may refer to work that seem detached and uninvolved on the one end and emotionally charged and lyrical on the other. It exists along a continuum where the departure from realistic depiction can be slight to complete. The artists in Abstractions and Contractions examine color, line and form from their surroundings like the hills of Los Angeles, vinyl kitchen floors, Formica countertops, Lego blocks, and toilet paper rolls to compose fascinating compositions that transform the ordinary into an interplay between the real and the surreal while referencing a long history of abstract art.

Abstractions and Contractions is part of an annual exhibition program sponsored by the AHL Foundation and is being hosted by Lumenhouse this year. The AHL Foundation was established to support cultural and artistic events with the purpose of building a wider public awareness of the contributions of Korean-American artists to contemporary art. It aims to discover talented artists and provide them with an opportunity to further their creative activities by providing grants and exhibitions. While the Foundation concentrates most of its resources to build awareness and support for artists of Korean descent, the goal of this exhibition is to foster the exchange of ideas between artists of Korean and non-Korean heritage and to nurture all underrepresented artists at large regardless of their cultural background.  For additional information please visit www.ahlfoundation.org.

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support and sponsorship of AHL Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Additional support provided by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Korean Cultural Services NY, and Lumenhouse.

For more information about the exhibition please contact Eun Young Choi at eyc2000@gmail.com
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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Exhibition of Tibetan Thangka Paintings
January 26 - March 13, 2009


High quality Tibetan Thangka paintings will be on view during this festival. The dates of the exhibition are January 26 till March 13, 2009. Thangka paintings usually depict deities and saints, aspects of the life of the Buddha, as well as the more abstract Mandalas, astrological charts, medical descriptions and scenes, usually serving as a supplementary aid to religious educational development. They are meant as focal elements for visualization, meditation and contemplation.

A talk by Lama Tenzin Yignyen is expected at the opening reception. Write to aaacinfo@artspiral.org or call us at our temporary phone number at 1.917.923.8118 for more information. This exhibition is organized by Robert Lee with assistance from Adliana Bahrin.

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