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| Jenifer Wofford, MacArthur Nurses VI, 2013 will be on view at the Wing Luke Museum. |
War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art
curated by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis
This exhibition brings
together works by 19 artists, highlighting different approaches to
the identities and experiences of mixed Asian Americans, mixed Pacific Islander
Americans and Asian transracial adoptees. While their biographies are varied
and often diverge from the dominant stereotypes of mixed Asian identities, their
lives are shaped by the specific histories of Asian Pacific-U.S. collisions:
narratives of war, economic and political migration and colonization. As an
ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation comes of age in a world fixated
on post-racial politics and moving beyond issues of identity, War
Baby | Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art examines how
artists engage various facets of hybridity in
their artwork.
Artists: Mequitta Ahuja, Albert
Chong, Serene Ford, Kip Fulbeck, Stuart Gaffney, Louie Gong, Jane Jin
Kaisen, Lori Kay, Li-lan, Richard Lou, Samia Mirza, Chris Naka, Laurel
Nakadate, Gina Osterloh, Adrienne Pao, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Amanda
Ross-Ho, Jenifer Wofford, Debra Yepa-Pappan.
Major funding for this exhibition was awarded through The National
Endowment for the Arts Art Works Museums grant to DePaul University. The
exhibition is curated by Laura Kina, associate professor Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, and Wei Ming Dariotis, associate professor Asian American Studies San Francisco State University. It opened at DePaul University April 25 - June 30, 2013 and will
travel next to Seattle to the Wing Luke Museum.
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
August 9, 2013 - January 19, 2014719 S. King Street Seattle, WA 98104
206-623-5124
http://www.wingluke.org/
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 8, 2013 @ 6-8pm
6-7pm: Special preview for Museum members and invited guests. Light refreshments will be served
7-8pm: Open to the public, free admission, no RSVP required
Read more about the exhibition - http://www.warbabylovechild.com/exhibition/
Curators Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis will be in attendance, as well as featured artists Stuart Gaffney, Louie Gong, Lori Kay, Richard Lou and Jenifer Wofford.
If you’d like to attend the special preview from 6-7pm, please contact mmartinez@wingluke.org or 206.623.5124 ext 107.
Related Programs at the Wing Luke Museum:
Saturday,
August 10, 1pm
Curator
lecture with Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis
Get an inside
look at War Baby/Love Child with
curators Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis. Learn about their process in
producing their multi-platform project (book, traveling exhibit, website, and
blog) Book signing to follow. $10 General (includes gallery admission), $7
Members.
Saturday,
August 17, 4pm
Book reading
with Cathy J. Tashiro
Cathy J.
Tashiro discusses her latest book Standing
on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed Race Americans, which highlights the voices of older
Americans of mixed race whose very existence broke the steadfast rules of the
color line. Free.
Saturday,
September 28, 2-5pm
MIX IT UP
This workshop
for artists includes a Q&A session and reception with Maria Villafranca from the New York Foundation of the
Arts. She will discuss strategies for sustaining your artistic practice,
including an overview of opportunities available to artists in Washington and
nationwide. Geared toward individual artist across disciplines at all stages in
their careers. $10 General, $7 Members and students. To purchase tickets, call
206-623-5124.
Saturday,
October 12
Film screening
of The Woman, The Orphan and The Tiger by Jane
Jin Kaisen
Saturday,
October 26
Teacher workshop
on how to talk about race
And more programs TBA!
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