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New | Calendar | Current Exhibition 8 Artists: From The Archive Artists: Charles Yuen, Dinh Q. Le , Dorothy Imagire, Eunjung Hwang, Howardena Pindell, Nancy Hom, Roger Shimomura, and, Sin-ying Ho. In collaboration with the Artists Alliance Inc.(AAI) an AAAC (Asian American Arts Centre) exhibition entitled tentatively, “Eight Artists: from the Archive”, will be installed in the Cuchifritos art gallery/project space located inside the Essex Street Market from August 14th - September 11th 2010. [ PRESS RELEASE ]
ARTSLAM: Call For Submission For the past several years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held a series of slide slams, allowing new, young, or 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 art slams, showcasing the work of ten artists working in various media. ArtSlam is an opportunity for artists to share their work with peers, general audience and art professionals in an open forum for critical exchange. This presentation can be done in slides or digital format. We are inviting all artists of Asian and Asian-American descent as well as those who have been significantly influenced by Asia to submit their work for participation. (Click here to see picture of the past ArtSlam) If you are interested in participating, please send us: CHINA: JUNE 4, 1989
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. These images manifest & reflect the global outcry and passion that was felt around the world. If there is any message of these art works to be remembered, like the image of that sole resistor who stood before a line of tanks stopping them in their tracks, it is to stand up for what you believe. Remember Tiananmen Square... [ MORE ] AMERICA'S CHINATOWN VOICES: Red Panels from Summer 2009 Outdoor Exhibition in Columbus Park View panels HERE to auction. DATE: APRIL 23 - MAY 9, 2010 Artists: Avani Patel, Nathalie Pham, and the Chinatown community Panels/artworks by the community from the outdoor installation "America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus ParkAbout 80 - 90 red panels were painted by community people, children, artists & other New Yorkers from the previous installation "America's Chinatown Voices" will be mounted at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. There will be a night where the panels will be auction. The artists will mount an online gallery of the panels for viewing, in the mean time please go to HERE to view pictures from the exhibition at Columbus Park last year. [ PRESS RELEASE ] THE 31TH ANNUAL ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL DATE: SUNDAY, MAY 2ND, 2010     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: Karen Ahn: Korean Maedeup (Knotting) 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! [ PRESS RELEASE ] Win Children Art Class Scholarship! CONTEST DATE: SUNDAY, FEB 28, 2010
Winning recipients of the 2010 Art Class Scholarship Contest will be granted a one-term tuition waiver at our Sunday Community Art School. A few winners will receive a half scholarship for tuition costs. In this way children 4 to 14 years old who have creative abilities in the Chinatown community have the opportunity to benefit from a quality art education program for children. Such art programs can be crucial for children to approach all situations and problems with a creative, resourceful, and flexible mind. Applicants are to be given an Artistic Aptitude Evaluation, a two-part assessment of childrenâÂÂs artistic development, for our School faculty to evaluate. A similar AAE test was developed by educators, art specialists, sociologists, and psychologists. Schools like Sunday Art Classes of Asian American Arts Centre can learn and estimate studentsâ intellectual and artistic profiles with this tool. Please arrive with your child at the Centre on time to fill out the application forms and enter the contest. The Evaluation will take approximately forty-five minutes to complete. Three full scholarships will be awarded and two to three half scholarships. Scholarship winners will be announced at a press conference on Wed March 3rd at 3pm at AAAC office located at 111 Norfolk St. Parents, children & the press are welcome. Classes begins on Sunday February 28. Note: Applicants should contact Asian American Arts Centre for early registration to qualify for the contest. For more information, please call the Arts Centre or send e-mail to AAACinfo@Artspiral.org to consult our education faculty for details.Re/Siting Asian American Studies: Connecting Critical Approaches In The Field DATE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010 About the Conference: 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.
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New York Lunar New Year Flower Festival DATE: FRI. 2/12 10AM-10PM & SAT 2/13 10AM-7PM
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. AAACâÃÂÃÂs 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 Master Animal Figurine Artist, Ming Liang Lu, Mater Papercutter. 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! [ PRESS RELEASE ] AAAC in a new location! Please email us at aaacinfo@artspiral.org or call 212-233-2154 Monday - Friday, to make an appointment [ PRESS RELEASE ] China on the Way to Modernization (From the Republic to the Present) Two Lectures On Sunday by Dr. Fang Lili and Zhu Legeng DATE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009, 7PM
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. [ PRESS RELEASE ] Dialogues in the Visual Arts Series: DECEMBER 9, 2009, 7PM Moderator: Robert Lee, Executive Director of AAAC with Artists Nathalie Pham,
Eun Young Choi, and Triple Edwards. A panel conversation about the Asian American Art Centre's important web site artasiamerica.org, reflecting 60 years and several generations artistic production by Asian American artists and the organization's current community development efforts.
[ PRESS RELEASE ] Farewell To 26 Bowery
After thirty-five years of operation, Asian American Arts Centre will leave its home at 26 Bowery, continuing its cultural work from a new address. [ PRESS RELEASE | LOCAL ISSUES ] Out Of The Archive: PROCESS & PROGRESS SEPTEMBER 18 - OCTOBER 30, 2009 OPENING RECEPTION: Wed, October 7th, 6 - 8pm. Location: WHITE BOX 329 Broome St. *LIVE BROADCAST USTREAMTV ARTISTS: Tomie Arai, John Yoyogi Fortes, Swati Khurana, Albert Chong. WRITERS: Karen Su, Karlyn Koh, Jan Christian Bernabe, Sarita Echavez See & Midori Yoshimoto
[ PRESS RELEASE | ESSAYS FROM CATALOG ] ARTASIAMERICA.ORG IS LAUNCHED!
[ PRESS RELEASE | ARCHIVE ESSAY ] ____________________________________________________________ All exhibitions unless otherwise indicated was held at Asian American Arts Centre 26 Bowery 3 Fl above McDonalds, in Chinatown, one block below Canal St. New York NY 10013. Gallery hours are M-F 1230 to 630pm, Thurs till 730pm. Current exhibitions and much, much more, are posted on www.artspiral.org For further information call 212.233.2154 or write aaacinfo@arspiral.org *Important Notice*
To contribute: See: addition to Programs Chronology from
2002 to present, particularly the AAAC Story conference materials. See: Chinese article about Nuo that can be
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