LAURA KINA

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Interviewed on Mixed Roots Radio

Edward Sumoto, from Mixed Roots Radio (Japan), interviewed me today about my artwork, being mixed-race and about my new coedited book War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. Listen live this Saturday 23rd from 8PM Japan Standard Time via Simulradio (http://www.simulradio.jp/asx/fmyy.asx) or at a later date from the radio player on http://www.mixroots.jp/

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2/14 update - here is a link to the show: http://www.tcc117.org/fmyy/index.php?e=1798

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

New website for War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art

http://www.warbabylovechild.com/

War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art
Edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis
Was just published by University of Washington Press, January 2013. Visit our new project website www.warbabylovechild.com to stay informed about book readings and the traveling related visual art exhibition, special events, and blog.

If you are in New York this week, please come visit me at:

College Art Association Conference
Diasporic Asian Arts Network panel - Reconceptualizing the “Invisible” Hyphen
Thursday, Feb 14, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Hilton New York 1335 Avenue of the Americas Morgan Suite, 2nd Floor

New York, NY
http://conference.collegeart.org/2013/sessions/thursday1730

Chair: ShiPu Wang, University of California, Merced
Alexandra Chang, New York University
Laura Kina, DePaul University
Viet Lê, California College of the Arts
Susette Min, University of California, Davis

The panel is FREE and open to the public without conference registration.

The University of Washington Press will be selling the book at the CAA vendor book and trade fair. Please come visit their booth.

Save the date for the opening of our exhibition:
War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art
curated by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis
April 25, 2013 – June 30, 2013
DePaul University Art Museum
Opening reception: Thursday, April 25, 2013 5:00-7:30pm
935 W. Fullerton Chicago, IL 60614
773-325-7506

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Indigo opening night and installation shots

If you are in Chicago, be sure to check out my two-woman show "Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina" at the Chicago Cultural Center up through ~~April 2, 2013~~ (Extended to April 27, 2013). Below are installation shots and a few pictures from our January 27, 2013 opening.

For more info and to view our works up close and read essays about the work, visit the online catalog or see our entire bodies of work on our websites at:

http://www.laurakina.com/devon.html

http://shellyjyoti.com/indigo-narratives/

Exhibition entrance at the Chicago Cultural Center Chicago Rooms

Shelly Jyoti and I at the opening

Opening reception January 27, 2013. In front of my "Devon Avenue Sampler: Alterations" work from 2011.

Opening reception January 27, 2013.

Installation view of Shelly Jyoti's "Indigo Narratives: Homage - Woeful Tales of the Ryots of Champaran" Photo by Colin Lyons.

Shelly Jyoti and I with her work. Photo by Colin Lyons.

Me in front of my works at the Chicago Cultural Center. Photo by Colin Lyons.

Installation view of my Devon Avenue Sampler series. Photo by Colin Lyons.

Installation view of our joint gallery room at the Chicago Cultural Center. Photo by Colin Lyons.

Shelly and I in front of my Devon Avenue Sampler series. Photo by Colin Lyons.

Indigo airing on TV Asia 2/9/13

My two-woman show "Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina" is scheduled to be covered during programming scheduled for airing on TV Asia Community Roundup program on February 9th at 10:30pm (ET) and repeated for West Coast viewers at 11:30pm (PT).

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