Asian American Arts Centre

07/06/2023

Nancy Yao was to lead a Smithsonian museum about the influence of American women. Her withdrawal came amid a review of how she had handled sexual harassment complaints in an earlier post.

01/07/2022

Focus on Public Art in Chinatown, Kit Yin Snyder and Richard Haas , opposition to the Jail plan and justice missing for the art, the artists, and the community.

The north tower of the Manhattan Detention Complex, left, completed in 1990, and the south tower, which reopened in 1983 following a $42 million renovation. Both are slated for demolition, beginning in early spring. Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib

09/13/2021

A remarkable story/short video Chinese woman first to vote in Calif. Early Chinese woman's history.

Official website: http://www.pbs.org/unladylike2020 | Leung Schulze resisted domestic servitude and an arranged child marriage to provi...

03/19/2021

honors the lives of Ashley Yaun, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, and three other Asian women

The cover is the work of four APPI women at the magazine, reflecting on the rise of anti-Asian violence in the wake of this week's horrific hate crimes.

03/16/2021

In the past year, this small Canadian arts organization organized a COVID-19 mutual aid initiative for independent Indigenous curators, and is challenging its institutional partners to step up.

10/05/2020

Conversations on Culture: Race, Art, Myth = Justice. Please join this diverse group of thought and action influencers for a four-part series focusing on critical issues affecting the lives and well-being of our communities and institutions.
These conversations explore the ways in which we continue to secure a future with global and national allies. We must examine and determine how unjust laws can be changed, ensuring that we institute actual legal protections as we thrive, not just survive. We must establish the basis for just frameworks - new philanthropic models that shore up funding for our community based cultural organizations, as informed by our knowledge, our work, and shaped by our mission and voices.
Our objective is to affect positive change, eradicate the systemic injustices that continue to oppress and limit the possibilities of the majority of the Our objective is to affect positive change, eradicate the systemic injustices that continue to oppress and limit the possibilities of the majority of the nation’s Black, Afro Latin, Latinx, Native, Asian, LGBTTQ+/Two Spirit, People with Disabilities, and economically poor White communities.
The state of our organizations, the health and wellbeing of our communities, and the very fabric of our democracy is at stake.

Conversations on Culture: Race, Art, Myth = Justice

07/31/2020

Very enlightening how intent Moses was in his utterly racist goals

Highways are a racist legacy. It is time to tear them down. And for once, let communities decide what gets built in their place.

07/30/2020

The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice is a call for us to transform our personal, institutional, and global thinking. We believe that culture moves before policy. We believe that culture endures beyond politics. We wrote this Call because our work in culture and arts is inextricably....

06/24/2020

The 2,292 plants in attendance will be donated to health workers who’ve been battling the spread of COVID-19.

06/22/2020

facinating, must read.

The relationship between Black liberation and photography reveals many things about our notions of freedom and the limitations of image making as a form of common truth.