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It is with great joy that I, Angela Han, write this letter of celebration as AAWAA’s newly elected Board President. I want to take this opportunity to shine a spotlight on our incredible Staff and Board who have worked tirelessly…
It comes with tremendous pride and gratitude for me to announce that I will be transitioning out of my role as Director of AAWAA and continue on as a fellow artist, member and advisor to the organization. I leave AAWAA in the capable and collective hands of our staff and board in this transitional period and look forward to witnessing AAWAA grow…
Congratulations to AAWAA Artist Member Lydia Nakashima Degarrod for receiving the fellowship at the Women’s International Study Center (WISC)…
FROM OUR MEMBERS
Congratulations to AAWAA Artist Member Lydia Nakashima Degarrod for receiving the fellowship at the Women’s International Study Center (WISC)…
AAWAA is proud to recognize and celebrate the dedication and commitment of our long-term members. These members have been a part of the AAWAA community for at least 3 years, and their contributions to the organization and to the arts have been invaluable.
With AAWAA Members in mind, we are excited to announce the launch of a few resources, including a helpful FAQ page and AAWAA Discord Server for members!
“For me as an artist, a painter and photographer, I would be hard pressed to pick just one or two favorites in Hung Liu’s expansive body of work. Paintings, works on paper, mixed media, sometimes with a bird cage attached, or installations with thousands of fortune cookies, would be employed in her arsenal of ideas. Her works were at once insightful and transgressive in illuminating the hidden stories of subjects largely absent in the public’s consciousness here and in China.”
In 1989, after the national meeting for the Women’s Caucus for Art, the Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) was established by Betty Kano, Flo Oy Wong, and Moira Roth in San Francisco (fig. 5). Bing joined the group soon after. AAWAA is unique as one of the only arts organizations in the United States explicitly created to support Asian American women artists. Beyond organizing exhibitions and public programs, AAWAA also runs the Emerging Curators Program, which offers opportunities for Asian American women to gain experience in the curatorial realm. For AAWAA and many other Asian American art collectives, it is not just the representation of Asian Americans on museum walls that matters; they recognize the need for Asian Americans to occupy important roles as public and creative leaders within institutions and beyond.
Betty Louie, a longtime supporter of AAWAA, could still her her dad’s voice screaming at her in the fall of 2014. “Don’t ever get rid of those tenants,” he’d shout. “No one is ever going to want a restaurant on the second floor. You’re going to be really, really sorry!” Her dad was referring to the restaurant owners inhabiting the space at 28 Waverly Place, a two-story, spacious building in San Francisco’s Chinatown, that was originally built in the 1800s.
What had been simply an art project for an ‘artists in residence’ program in 2009 at San Francisco’s de Young Museum has now blossomed into something profoundly transformative as “A Place of Her Own ™” workshop brings art and healing together.
“There's a lot of resilience and power in sitting and listening and watching – which my work is about. I'm not a photographer that puts out my work all the time. I'm really slow. There's a certain timing to when I realize the relevance of a particular photo or a series.” Listen to AAWAA Artist Member, Erina Alejo, talk about their project, A Hxstory of Renting on KQED’s Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw.
Eddie Wong, editor of East Wind Ezine asked AAWAA Artist Member, Lenore Chinn to pen an article as we anticipate the release of the US Postage Service stamps honoring Ruth Asawa. Read more on East Wind Ezine!
“Lola Marina (lola - grandmother, in Tagalog) turned 98 last month. She has lived through and is part of nearly a century’s worth of hxstory.” Artist Member, Erina Alejo reflects on their Lola’s immigrant story through their anti-displacement narrative project, A Hxstory of Renting.
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It is with great joy that I, Angela Han, write this letter of celebration as AAWAA’s newly elected Board President. I want to take this opportunity to shine a spotlight on our incredible Staff and Board who have worked tirelessly…
It comes with tremendous pride and gratitude for me to announce that I will be transitioning out of my role as Director of AAWAA and continue on as a fellow artist, member and advisor to the organization. I leave AAWAA in the capable and collective hands of our staff and board in this transitional period and look forward to witnessing AAWAA grow…
Congratulations to AAWAA Artist Member Lydia Nakashima Degarrod for receiving the fellowship at the Women’s International Study Center (WISC)…
Take part in AAWAA's 35th anniversary and feature up to 2 images of your artwork in the upcoming exhibition, In the Presence of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association, at Berkeley Art Center (opening January 27th, 2024).
A few weekends ago, AAWAA Managing Director, Diana Li, made a visit to Sonoma County. Read more to learn about the launch of Cantadora Wine’s new set, including a feature of “The Dream Builder”, Nancy Hom. Purchase a bottle with Nancy's label and 10% will go back to AAWAA.
It's that time of year again! We are releasing a survey to AAWAA Members. Whoever finishes the survey will have a chance to win a pair of San Francisco museum tickets and more!
AAWAA is proud to recognize and celebrate the dedication and commitment of our long-term members. These members have been a part of the AAWAA community for at least 3 years, and their contributions to the organization and to the arts have been invaluable.