Participating in "From Chicago to Lahore" at the Chicago Cultural Center

I will be participating in this one day group show. Save the date!

For Immediate Release
Chicago Sister Cities International

FROM CHICAGO TO LAHORE: A CULTURAL NEXUS
CELEBRATES CULTURAL CONNECTIONS

Event Features the Visual, Media, Musical and Literary Arts of Pakistan

CHICAGO (September 19, 2012) – Chicago Sister Cities International (CSCI) brings Chicagoans a festive evening of cultural discovery with From Chicago to Lahore: A Cultural Nexus, blowing the winds of artistic heritage from Chicago’s sister city of Lahore, Pakistan across the globe right into the heart of the Windy City. The work of artists of various disciplines from opposite sides of the world, Chicago and Pakistan, come together for one night in this special event to highlight our similarities and celebrate the impact of the arts upon people of all cultures.

The Lahore Committee of CSCI presents From Chicago to Lahore: A Cultural Nexus on
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 from 6–9 p.m. at the Chicago Cultural Center (77 E. Randolph Street) in the G.A.R Hall & Rotunda and the Claudia Cassidy Theater. The event is free and open to the public.

A food reception featuring an exhibition of visual arts and a brief speaking program takes place from 6–7:30 p.m. in the G.A.R. Hall & Rotunda. Film screenings, musical performances and poetry readings take place in the Claudia Cassidy Theater from 7:30–9 p.m.

The works presented range from renowned masterpieces to contemporary explorations in various media including paintings, photographs, music, films and literature by artists from
Lahore and throughout Pakistan, and artists from the Chicago area, whose work collectively
builds cultural bridges through artistic expression. Through the work shown, the evening brings together the energetic and vigorous cultural life of both cities.

The exhibition is curated by visual artist and printmaker Sadia Uqaili, the Arts and Culture Chair of the Lahore Committee of CSCI, and showcases the works of masters as well as contemporary artists such as Syed Sadeqain Ahmad Naqvi, Ismail Gulgee, Bashir Mirza, Naheed Raza, Laura Kina, Shota Kawahara, Sumbul Nazir, Elizabeth Nuti, Sheheryar Hasnain, Jon Stein, Amna Siddiqui, Asif Raza, Marvi Mazhar, Michael Klaus Schmidt,
Durre Sameen Malik, Chandrika Marla, Allie Spicer and Zafar Mailk; films by Umar Riaz,
Suree Towfignia, Mikey Peterson, Sandeep Sharma, Shalalae Jamil, John Lyons, Ben Her
Uribe, Mian Adnan Ahmad; and poetry by Baba Bulleh Shah, Eric Elshtain, Daniela Olszewska, Razia Fasih Ahmad, Maureen Flannery and Hamza Hayauddin.

For more information on this event, visit www.ChicagoSisterCities.com, follow us on Twitter (@ChiSisterCities) or “Like” us on Facebook, Facebook.com/ChicagoSisterCities.

Arts and Culture in Lahore
As the second largest city in Pakistan, Lahore has a historic legacy as Pakistan’s cultural
capital. Lahore’s culture not only reflects the ethnic diversity of Pakistan, but also bears the
influence of numerous global elements, often blending South Asian, Central Asian, Middle
Eastern, Persian and Western cultural and artistic influences.

The city’s geographical placement on the route of the historic Grand Trunk Road, laid in the
early 16th century and linking the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, has long brought an influx of people travelling to and through Lahore, bringing with them their distinctive cultural heritages and adding renewed vibrancies to the city’s traditions.

Today, much of Lahore’s thriving art scene is fueled by the National College of Arts, the
country’s foremost university of art and design that serves as a breeding ground for many of the country's burgeoning artists. Locally known as NCA, the college gallery hosts both permanent and visiting exhibitions by Pakistani painters, printmakers, sculptors and other visual artists.

Beyond the visual arts, Lahore is internationally recognized for its music festivals and theatrical productions; is known as Pakistan’s center for dining and nightlife; and is the hub of the country’s fashion and film industries.

Chicago Sister Cities International
Chicago Sister Cities International provides leadership to develop, manage and coordinate
comprehensive programs and projects with Chicago’s sister cities. It aims to increase international trade, promote economic development and support exchanges in the fields of arts and culture, education, health, social services, environment and technology with its sister cities for the benefit of the City of Chicago, its residents and businesses.

Chicago’s 28 sister cities include: Accra, Ghana (1989); Amman, Jordan (2004); Athens,
Greece (1997); Belgrade, Serbia (2005); Birmingham, England (1993); Bogota, Colombia
(2009); Busan, Republic of Korea (2007); Casablanca, Morocco (1982); Delhi, India (2001);
Durban, South Africa (1997); Galway, Ireland (1997); Gothenburg, Sweden (1987); Hamburg, Germany (1994); Kyiv, Ukraine (1991); Lahore, Pakistan (2007); Lucerne, Switzerland (1998); Mexico City, Mexico (1991); Milan, Italy (1973); Moscow, Russia (1997); Osaka, Japan (1973); Paris, France (1996); Petach Tikva, Israel (1994); Prague, Czech Republic (1990); Shanghai, China (1985); Shenyang, China (1985); Toronto, Canada (1991); Vilnius, Lithuania (1993); and Warsaw, Poland (1960).

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Images and interviews available upon request.

Contact: Benjamin Kelner
Phone: 312.201.4535
Cell: 312.718.1186
bkelner@chicagosistercities.com

Mixed Roots Midwest at DePaul University Nov 1-3, 2012

MIXED ROOTS MIDWEST PRESENTS
SHORT FILMS, PANELS AND A LIVE EVENT
AT 2012 CRITICAL MIXED RACE STUDIES CONFERENCE 

 Nov 1-3, 2012

All events are free and open to the public and will be held at the DePaul Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield #120 A/B, Chicago, IL 60614

Join us for three evenings of Mixed Root Midwest thanks to the generous support of the Center for Intercultural Programs at DePaul.

Mixed Roots Midwest brings selected short films, a panel of filmmakers, and a live show
featuring local and national talent whose material explores the Mixed experience to Chicago as part of the 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference.

Nov 1: Selected Shorts (50 minutes): Silences, Crayola Monologues, Mixed Mexican, and Nigel's Fingerprint have received critical acclaim and have screened at national and
international film festivals. The films explore themes of racism, familial relationships, the
Census, and how we define ourselves in a world obsessed with categorizing people by color.

Nov 2: Filmmakers Panel: Three filmmakers discuss their storytelling journeys on film from pre-production through post-, and what inspired them to tell stories of the Mixed experience. Kip Fulbeck (The Hapa Project 2001-2006) received the Loving Prize at the first Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival and is a pioneering artist, spoken word performer, author and filmmaker. Jeff Chiba Stearns (One Big Hapa Family, 2010) is a multi award-winning animation and documentary filmmaker and founder of Meditating Bunny Studio Inc.. Kim Kuhteubl’s film, Nigel’s Fingerprint, which will screen as part of Mixed Roots Midwest, won multiple awards and was invited to travel with the Toronto International Film Festival’s Sprockets Globetrotter series. She is the founder of SingleWoman.TV – an online channel exclusively for single women.

Nov 3: Mixed Roots Midwest LIVE: join us for an evening of energetic, thought-provoking performances featuring spoken word artists from Chicago’s own 2nd Story, an excerpt from Fanshen Cox’s solo-show-in-progress: One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for her Father’s Racial Approval, and other exciting artists who meld performance art with an exploration and critical analysis of what it means to be ‘Mixed.

Contact: Laura Kina
Co-Coordinator, Mixed Roots Midwest
Phone 773-325-4048
Email: lkinaaro@depaul.edu

CALL FOR PROPOSALS—SPECIAL AALR ISSUE ON MIXED RACE

To all my critical mixed race studies academic and mixed race artist and community friends, colleagues, and kindrid spirits out there, check out this call for proposals from the Asian American Literary Review for a special issue on mixed race:
http://aalrmag.org/category/in-the-review/mixedrace/

Thanks to political organizing, scholarship, and the arts, not to mention media coverage, mixed race has become hyper-visible. So what’s next? AALR’s special issue on mixed race, due out in Fall 2013, won’t simply be a reexamination of race or a survey of mixed voices, important as both are. We envision our role as that of provocateur—inspiring new conversations and cross-pollinations, pushing into new corners.

What are the nerve centers of mixed race? How does mixed race mark fault lines the world over? We invite you to be the curators of this special issue, to tell us what about mixed race we need to address—and how.

All contributions to the issue will be collaborative, “mixed” in nature, bringing together folks across racial and ethnic boundaries, across disciplines, genres, countries, languages, and generations. We see the issue as a meeting point for visual artists and writers, filmmakers and activists, students and teachers and scholars of every stripe—an incubator of new ideas and fresh approaches. Multilingual exchanges and formal innovations welcome.

In Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 the issue will be a focal point for a multiinstitution synchronous teaching program that connects students and faculty across the world. So far 54 classrooms in universities and colleges in seven countries have signed up. Our goal is an international, livetime, region to region, country to country conversation that builds academic, social, and civic community, a conversation that challenges and grows our understandings of race and mixed race as well as the tools and lenses we use to understand them.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES
All proposals should briefly outline:
• who would be contributing to your collaborative project, with a 50-100 word bio for each contributor;
• what subject matter your collaborative project would engage;
• how it would engage that subject or set of subjects in terms of disciplinary approach(s), genre(s), and
form(s) or format(s); and
• why your proposed project would be vital to the special issue.

We are accepting proposals from fully formed groups; partial groups requesting to be matched with a
writer, scholar, activist, visual artist, illustrator, musician, or filmmaker; and individuals requesting to be
matched with a group.

Please direct proposals to AALR.MRI.CFP@gmail.com and any questions or inquiries to
editors@aalrmag.org. Deadline for proposal submissions is 11/9/12. We will inform of decisions by mid-December 2012. Final submissions of collaborative projects will be due February 2013.

AALR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization. All donations are fully tax-deductible.

Join me on Oct 5th for CARE Package c/o Philadelphia, PA

Twelve Gates Arts

51 North Second St., Old City

Philadelphia, PA 19106

info@twelvegatesarts.org

215.253.8578

http://www.twelvegatesarts.org/

CARE Package c/o Philadelphia, PA

Curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff in collaboration with the artists
October 5 - October 26, 2012

Opening Reception with the artists: Friday October 5, 6pm-8pm

Omiyage: Air Force (panel 4 of 4) 30x30, hand embroidery and acrylic on linen with patchwork quilt border - Laura Kina

Twelve Gates Arts is thrilled to host the inaugural showing of CARE Package a small-scale international traveling show of five female artists of Asian descent. Taking inspiration from the concept of care package sent to each host country, artists Shelly Bahl, Shelly Jyoti, Laura Kina, Saira Wasim, and Anida Yoeu Ali created multi-media "gifts" to be shared with local audiences. Philadelphia is the city where packages destined for Europe after WWII were assembled for shipment by the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE, Inc.); now it is set to be the first city to receive this unique gift. The universal concept of a gift here acts as a stage for the artists' stories, which promise to tackle issues of nationhood, race, gender, religion, & economic exploitation.

Shelly Bahl is a visual and media artist born in Benares, India, and currently based in New York City. Her interdisciplinary work in drawing, painting, sculpture/ installation, photography and video, has appeared in a number of solo and group exhibitions in North America and internationally over the past 16 years. Her recent projects include group exhibitions at: Queens Museum of Art, White Box, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, India Art Summit, Aicon Gallery, and Religare Arts Initiative.

Laura Kina is Associate Professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Her paintings and textile works address Asian American history and mixed race representations.  Her artwork has shown internationally andbeen published in Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing (Temple University Press, 2011); Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (Inanna Publications, 2010); and Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future (Cal State Fullerton, 2010); The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation (Spertus Museum, 2007).

Shelly Jyoti is a New Delhi based visual artist, fashion designer, and poet whose research centers on historical iconographic elements within the cultural context of Indian history.  Her art series Indigo Narratives 2009-12 and Beyond Mathila 2008-12 have shown internationally and been reviewed in Business Standard, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Open Magazine, Deccan Herald, ArtEtc. Magazine. Her literary works are in collection with Sahitya Akademi, the journal of Indian English literature.

Saira Wasim has carved a niche for herself with her innovative and meticulously crafted Persian miniatures, which she employs to make devastating political and social commentary. Ms. Wasim’s work has been widely feted, and has been exhibited at numerous prominent art institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Asia Society in New York, and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. She has recently noted that persecution as an Ahmadiyya Muslim was key in shaping her artistic perspectives.  New York Times describes her work as "exquisite political cartoons that conjure and sometimes borrow directly from Norman Rockwell”.

Anida Yoeu Ali is a performance artist, writer, and global agitator. She is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. In 2011, Ali returned to work in Phnom Penh as part of her U.S. Fulbright Fellowship research on creation mythologies. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to artmaking, her installation and performance works investigate the artistic, spiritual and political collisions of a hybrid transnational identity. From the Faroe Islands to the Bronx, Copenhagen to Ho Chi Minh City, she lectures, exhibits and performs internationally. Ali is a collaborative partner with Studio Revolt, an independent media lab operating out of Phnom Penh where she currently resides.

Ombretta Agrò Andruff is a New York-based freelance curator, art critic and consultant. She has curated solo and group shows in Europe, the US, and India, collaborating with museums, art festivals, and art fairs - such as Queens Museum of Art, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Armory Show, The Art Basel Miami Fair, The Downtown Arts Festival, The d.u.m.b.o. art under the Bridge Festival. She is a New York contributor for Italian art magazines Arte Critica, Tema Celeste, and Label and collaborates as well with the New York-based, The Art Tribune and New York Arts Magazine. She has recently joined the staff of Asian Contemporary Art Week as Associate Director.

Watch the video for War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art

Special thanks to new media artist Chris Naka for making this promotional YouTube video for our forthcoming book War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Daritotis (University of Washington Press, 2013). This short video (4:26) features images from the book interspersed with clips of interviews with artists and contributors to the book.

Featured voice overs and interviews listed in order of appearance: Serene Ford, Albert Chong, Richard A. Lou, Adrienne Pao, Chris Naka, Jane Jin Kaisen, Kip Fulbeck, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Laura Kina, and Wei Ming Dariotis.

Featured artwork listed in order of appearance: Mequitta Ahuja, Serene Ford, Albert Chong, Gina Osterloh, Kip Fulbeck, Li-lan, Richard A. Lou, Louie Gong, Laurel Nakadate, Jane Jin Kaisen, Adrienne Pao, Debra Yepa-Pappan

Sharing pictures from the NEH Summer Institute Re-envisioning American Art History: Asian American Art, Research and Teaching

We are heading into the final two days of the NEH Summer Institute "Re-envisioning American Art History: Asian American Art, Research and Teaching" July 9-28, 2012 at New York University in NY. I'll blog about this life changing experience when I've had some time to reflect and the vertigo settles down but I wanted to share my snapshots in the meantime. I hope the NEH will sponsor another institute (maybe in Chicago or LA or SF?) in the future. There are so many other artists, curators, critics, and art historians and academics working on Asian American art out there that need to be part of this conversation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63834915@N03/sets/72157630562336122/

Margo Machida and Alexandra Chang

Co-Directors:
Alexandra Chang, Margo Machida

Core faculty:
Alexandra Chang
Dipti Desai
Karin Higa
Mark D. Johnson
Margo Machida
Marvin J. Taylor
Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen
Jeffrey Wechsler
Tom Wolf
Midori Yoshimoto

Participants:
Jan Christian Bernabe
Abby Chen
Julianne Gavino
Curt Hansman
Krystal Hauseur
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer
Laura Kina
Mariam Lam
Viet Le
Kyoo Lee
Sonia Mak
Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker
Susette Min
Joann Moser
Eun Park
Alpesh Patel
Greg Robinson
Amy Tang
Chuong-Dai Vo
Aileen Wang
ShiPu Wang
Steven Wong
Midori Yamamura
Michelle Yee

Awarded "Top 100 Under 50" from Diversity MBA

I am honored to be selected as one of the "Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Emerging Leaders" by Diversity MBA. 

Diversity MBA Magazine names 2012 Diverse Executive & Emerging Leaders

 CHICAGO, IL - DiversityMBA Magazine, an internationally distributed publication targeting women and multicultural professionals in corporate America, entrepreneurs and business students, has named the 2012 Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive  & Emerging Leaders.

The leaders were selected based on their position within a publicly or privately held company, a successful entrepreneurial company or not-for-profit organization, and for their scope of responsibility, community service work and education achieved.

“We wanted to celebrate leaders who value higher education, giving back while achieving their career goals,” said Pam McElvane, CEO & Publisher of Diversity MBA Magazine. “Many of the other mainstream publications recognize currently celebrated leaders, but I wanted to show the world that companies have leaders championing change and are the pipeline for the future.”

The honorees will be featured in DiversityMBA Magazine’s Summer 2012 issue and will be honored at the magazine’s Awards Gala held September 20^th & 21^st  at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel. The gala and leadership forum has proven to be one the of the most powerful and engaging forums of its kind, with 85 percentof the Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive and Emerging Leaders in attendance.

A list of the honorees is at the bottom of this press release.

Diversity MBA Magazine is the global leadership publication for professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge base from a thought leadership perspective.

“As Diversity MBA Magazine celebrates our sixth year of recognizing women and diverse talent in leadership, we know we have established a niche that is second to none in recognizing talented individuals who make significant contributions in the workplace and community,” McElvane said.

Another product of the magazine is “50 Out Front List: Best Places for Diverse Managers to Work,” which recognizes companies that not only demonstrate their strong commitment to diversity, but also understand the value of supporting external programs that enhance leadership and retention within their organizations.

This year’s honorees come from around the world, including China, Africa, and Europe, and from a wide spectrum of industries, including retail, financial services, automotive, railroad, healthcare, education, medical, pharmaceutical, communications, government and consulting. Eighty percent are from corporate America. The percentage of honorees with MBAs (as opposed to other advanced degrees) is 80 percent, up from 50 percent in previous years. The list also shows a small increase in the nonprofit sector.

Please visit www.diversitymbamagazine.com for more information about DiversityMBA Magazine.  To schedule media interviews, use the contact information at the of of this press release.

From: 
http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/818929/c2643b70ad/ARCHIVE

Along with seven other Asian American studies scholars, I was asked to respond to the Asian American Literary Review's April 2012 symposium "Asian American Portraits of Encounter Between Word and Image" at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. "This thrilling exchange of visual portraits and literary response will be captured in our Fall-Winter 2012 issue." In this forthcoming virtual round table, I focus on artist Shizu Saldamando's work and the responses of writers Garrett Hongo and Anna Kazumi Stahl.

The symposium features:
Featured visual portraits by artists Roger Shimomura, Satomi Shirai, Shizu Saldamando, CYJO, Hye Yeon Nam, Zhang Chun Hong, and Tam Tran.

Featured literary responses by Bao Phi, Garrett Hongo, Anna Kazumi Stahl, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Marianne Villanueva, Kazim Ali, and David Henry Hwang; additional invitees include Molly Gaudry, David Mura, Roy Kamada, Brian Komei Dempster, and others to be announced soon.

Participating scholars include Laura Kina, Alexandra Chang, Joseph Jeon, Susette Min, Floyd Cheung, Vincent Pham, Shilpa Davé, and Douglas Ishii.

Pre-order your copy of the Fall-Winter 2012 Issue of the Asian American Literary Review with a 2012 subscription:
http://aalrmag.org/

JASC: Living Our Culture June 7th spring benefit

Watch a video from this event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UhQMPOgfMI&feature=youtu.be

I'm  currently serving on the board of the Japanese American Service Committee (JASC). Please consider attending our June 7, 2012 spring benefit. I'm donating an original painting "Flower for your Heart" (see below) to the silent auction and I'll be showing two new paintings in a special one night group exhibition.

Laura Kina "Flowers for your Heart" Acrylic and mixed media on paper, 30 x 30 in. (framed 32 x 32 in), 2003

This event is open to the public. To RSVP and preview the silent auction art donations visit:
http://www.jasc-chicago.org/loc12/

 

Living Our Culture: A celebration of Japanese American art and culture
to benefit the Japanese American Service Committee

June 7^th 2012

6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Greenhouse Loft – 2545 West Diversey Avenue, Chicago, IL

Details: Asian-inspired appetizers and cocktails, and an art show and auction featuring the work of established and emerging Japanese American artists

The new Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) spring event, Living Our Culture, is just a few short weeks away.  This is an exciting new event for our organization and I sincerely hope you’ll be able to join us for a reception, exhibition and silent auction on the evening of Thursday, June 7th at the Greenhouse Loft at 2545 West Diversey Avenue – recently opened as among the premiere LEED-certified event venues in the country, with an 8,000 foot organic sky garden that will be open for our event, weather-permitting! 

We have an extraordinarily talented, well-regarded and diverse group of artists who will be showing work of all kinds on that evening.  Our list of featured artists includes Irene Suyeoka, George Suyeoka, Mayumi Lake, Michiko Itatani, Lisa Nishi, Michio Iwao, Amy Lee Segami, Tony Fitzpatrick, Laura Kina, Michael Tanimura and David Tanimura. 

Thanks to staff and our group of volunteers, we have an incredible list of auction items that go far beyond art – including a one-week stay in Hawaii, a weekend at a Michigan lakehouse, gift certificates to some of Chicago’s best restaurants (including Tru and NoMi) and a variety of special packages for cultural events and experiences throughout Chicago. 

The JASC has never planned an event quite like this – between the incredible space, the innovative Asian-inspired cuisine, great wine and an exciting auction – there will be something for everyone. The event won't be complete without having you there! So please register to attend! http://www.jasc-chicago.org/loc12/

About the JASC:

The Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) was founded in 1946 as the Chicago Resettlers Committee with a mission to preserve and raise awareness of Japanese American culture and heritage and to promote the physical and spiritual well-being of Japanese Americans and the greater multicultural community in the Midwest. The Legacy Center and cultural programs at the JASC seek to highlight the rich heritage of Japanese Americans in Chicago while highlighting their contributions to the cultural vitality of our society.  The JASC’s programs include The Legacy Center Collection, an archival collection of national significance that paints a powerful and complex portrait of the community’s life before, during and after the period of World War internment.  The organization additionally operates, independently and in concert with an impressive roster of partner agencies, a series of exhibits and programs that explore history, open dialogues, advance tolerance and celebrate diversity.

Coming Jan. 2013 through UW Press - War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art

Wei Ming Dariotis and I have been working on this project since 2008 and it's almost here! Get your pre-orders in for this exciting new book. Foreword by Kent Ono. Artists and authors included in the book: Rudy Guevarra Jr., Lori Kay, Gina Osterloh, Jenifer Wofford, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Chris Naka, Laurel Nakadate, Eleana J. Kim, Jane Jin Kaisen, Cathy Schlund-Vials, Serene Ford, Lori Pierce, Margo Machida, Adrienne Pao, Li-lan, Kip Fulbeck, Amanda Ross-Ho, Debra Yepa-Pappan, Louie Gong, Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Mequitta Ahuja, Albert Chong, Richard A. Lou, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Camilla Fojas, Stuart Gaffney, and Ken Tanabe.

War Baby / Love Child

Mixed Race Asian American Art

Edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis

• $45.00 paperback (9780295992259) Add to Cart
• hardcover not available

• Published: January 2013
• Subject Listing: Contemporary Art, Asian American Studies
• Bibliographic information: 304 pp., 63 illus., 44 in color, maps, 7 x 10 in.
• Territorial rights: World
• Contents

War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews with nineteen emerging, mid-career, and established mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American artists, including Li-lan and Kip Fulbeck, with scholarly essays exploring such topics as Vietnamese Amerasians, Korean transracial adoptions, and multiethnic Hawai'i. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age in an era of "optional identity," this collection brings together first-person perspectives and a wider scholarly context to shed light on changing Asian American cultures.

Laura Kina is associate professor of art, media, and design at DePaul University. Wei Ming Dariotis is assistant professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University.

"War Baby / Love Child is an interesting, original, and innovative project that expands the field of Asian American studies by using visual art as a point of entry and analysis for the discipline." - Mark Johnson, editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970

"One of the strengths of this original volume is its holistic combination of interviews with premier fine artists along with the textual, historical, and scholarly context provided by established and emerging scholars in Asian American Studies." - Nitasha Sharma, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Americans, Blackness, and Global Race Consciousness

Reviews

To place an order visit:

http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/KINWAR.html

4/24/12 Video Screening and Artist Talk: Valerie Soe

Video Screening and Artist Talk: Valerie Soe

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5-6:30pm

The Chinese Gardens and The Oak Park Story
Two film screenings and an artist talk by acclaimed experimental video artist Valerie Soe

DePaul University Art Museum
935 W. Fullerton
Chicago, IL 

Sponsored by Global Asian Studies and the Department of History of Art and Architecture
This event is FREE and open to the public

Valerie Soe is a San Francisco writer, educator, and artist whose experimental videos and installations, which look at gender and cultural identity and anti-racism struggles, have exhibited at venues such as the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum in New York City, and at film festivals worldwide. Her most recent award-winning documentary, The Oak Park Story (2010) has exhibited widely across the country. Soe is also the author of the blog beyondasiaphilia.com, which looks at Asian American art, film, culture, and activism. beyondasiaphilia is the recipient of a 2012 Art Writers’ Grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, one of only seven such grants awarded in the U.S. She is an Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University, where she teaches film history and production, cultural criticism, art and social practice, and media
studies.

Chinese Gardens (17 min, 2012)

The Chinese Gardens – Racism, resistance, and the hidden history of Chinese Americans
The Chinese Gardens looks at the lost Chinese community in Port Townsend, Washington,
examining anti-Chinese violence—lynchings, beatings, and murders—in the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800s and drawing connections between past and present race relations in the U.S.
http://www.thechinesegardens.com/

The Oak Park Story (22 min, 2010)

The Oak Park Story
The Oak Park Story (2010, 22 min.) is a documentary film that recounts the journeys of three families – from Cambodia, Mexico, and California – who band together at a run-down slum in Oakland CA and win a landmark settlement against their landlord.
The film is directed, edited, co-produced and co-written by Valerie Soe and co-produced and co-written by Russell Jeung, both of whom are professors of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.
http://www.theoakparkstory.com/

Call for Papers - Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies

Call for Papers - Inaugural Issue: Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies
“Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies”

The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS). Launched in 2011, it is the first academic journal explicitly focused on Critical Mixed Race Studies. Sponsored by UC Santa Barbara's Sociology Department, JCMRS is hosted on the eScholarship Repository, which is part of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library. JCMRS functions as an open-access forum for critical mixed race studies scholars and will be available without cost to anyone with access to the Internet.

JCMRS is transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational in focus and emphasizes the critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based on dominant conceptions and constructions of race. JCMRS emphasizes the constructed nature and thus mutability of race and the porosity of racial boundaries in order to critique processes of racialization and social stratification based on race. JCMRS addresses local and global systemic injustices rooted in systems of racialization.

Some questions to consider:

·       Why Critical Mixed Race Studies rather than mixed ethnicity or mixed heritage?

·       How does CMRS transform Ethnic Studies?

·       What does CMRS mean in transnational contexts?

·       What are some ways that CMRS can be institutionalized?

·       How do foundational articles or books in CMRS resonate today?

·       How does CMRS relate to the Multiracial Movement or social activism around mixed heritage identities?

·       How does post-racial discourse factor into the development of CMRS?

·       How is CMRS transdisciplinary or interdisciplinary?

Papers that were presented at the Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference in 2010 are invited for revision and submission. JCMRS encourages both established and emerging scholars to submit articles throughout the year. Articles will be considered for publication on the basis of their contributions to important and current discussions in mixed race studies, and their scholarly competence and originality.

Submission Deadline: July 1, 2012

Submission Guidelines: Article manuscripts should range between 15-30 double-spaced pages, Times New Roman 12-point font, including notes and works cited, must follow the Chicago Manual of Style, and include an abstract (not to exceed 250 words).

Visit our website for complete submission guidelines and to submit an article: http://escholarship.org/uc/ucsb_soc_jcmrs

Please address all inquiries to: socjcmrs@soc.ucsb.edu

Founding Editors G. Reginald Daniel, Wei Ming Dariotis, Laura Kina, Maria P. P. Root, Paul Spickard