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AAWAA PAST EVENTS
Saturday, September 26, 2009
6:30-9:30 PM
SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco
Tickets: $15-$50 sliding scale, students $10
Click here to purchase tickets online
Any amount over $10.00 per ticket is tax deductable to the extent allowed by law.
20th Anniversary Art Exhibitions
September 22—October 4
free admission during gallery hours
Made in AAWAA—20 Years of AAWAA
A Place of Her Own—Artists respond to
“If you had a place of your own, what would it be?”
Cheers to Muses—Contemporary works
SOMArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th Streets), San Francisco, CA 94103
www.somarts.org
(415) 863-1414
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Friday, 2–7 pm & Saturday 12–5 pm
Plus Saturday, October 3, 12 pm–9 pm & Sunday, October 4, 3–6 pm
Panel Discussion: Asian American Women,
Feminism, and the Arts
Monday, March 9, 2009
Femina Potens Art Gallery
2199 Market Street
(at 15th St. and Sanchez)
5:30 pm Registration
6:00-7:30 pm Program
Reception to follow
$5 Members/Students, $12 Non-members
Asian American Women, Feminism, and the Arts brings together a range of feminists—an author, a visual artist, and a performance artist—in a panel discussion focused on the dynamics of gender, race, and activism.
Panelists include Minoo Moallem (moderator),
Shailja Patel, Cynthia Tom and Karen Tei Yamashita.
This event is co-sponsored by The Asian American Women Artist Association, Center for Asian American Media, Chinese Culture Center, Hyphen magazine, Kearny Street Workshop, Mills College, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, San Francisco State University-Asian American Studies Department, UC Berkeley- Gender and Women's Studies, and USF Center for the Pacific Rim
SOMArts Cultural Center Presents
Hybridity
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 5, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition: February 5 - 25, 2009
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday 2:00 - 7:00pm, Saturday 1:00 - 5:00pm
Hybridity: how do the themes, subject matter, and aesthetics of two cultures speak to the relationship, permissions, and boundaries that exist between them?
Featured artists include: Rio Yanez, Shizu Saldamondo, Mari Naomi (AAWAA), Miho Toyoda, Kathy Fujii-Oka (AAWAA), Mae Suzuki, Ava Alamshah, Jos Sances, Nicole Schach, Cynthia Tom, Lydia Nakashima Degarrod.
http://www.somarts.org/content/view/407/27
de Young Museum
San Francisco
January 30, 2009, 6:30-8:30
Closing Reception, featuring the musical stylings of
Mr. Danny Cao or www.DuUy.net
January 7–February 1, 2009 Artists-in-Residence
AAWAA embarks on a new 3–5 year multi-disciplinary project.
Artists respond to the question,
“If you had a place of your own, what would it be?”
www.famsf.org/deyoung
Cheers to Muses: A Reading Sponsored by the Asian American Women
Artists Association
Sunday, January 25, 1–4 pm, including a book signing
Koret Auditorium, de Young
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
In conjunction with the de Young's Artist in Residence: A Place of Your
Own, members of AAWAA will read poetry and prose, including work from
the anthology, Cheers to Muses, Contemporary Works by Asian American
Women. This diverse collection comprises a compelling part of today's
literary voices.
Admission into the Koret Auditorium is free
www.famsf.org/deyoung
Readers:
- Grace Ilagan Angel
- Olivia Boler
- Clara Hsu
- Michelle Meeseon Koehn
- Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen
- Grace Tseng
- Maw Shein Win
- Nellie Wong
- Debbie Yee
Reader Bios
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Grace Ilagan Angel
- is a painter, poet, mother of two girls, successful
event planner and a breast cancer survivor. She is currently working
on her latest collection of poetry entitled, "Dreams from the
Orchard."
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Olivia Boler
- is the author of a novel, Year of the Smoke Girl. She has
written for a variety of publications including the America 24/7
photojournalism book series, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Marin
Magazine.
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Clara Hsu's ensemble Lunation
- combines poetry with musical
instruments. She is the keeper of the Poetry Hotel and organizes free
social activities for the San Francisco poet community.
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Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen
- holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College
and her work has been published in journals and anthologies. She has
performed at numerous venues in the Bay Area including Kearny Street
Workshop's APAture 8 & 9, San Francisco's Litcrawl and Writers with
Drinks.
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Grace Tzeng
- was previously a preschool teacher, but now is re-pursuing
a writing career. She has written for In the Classroom (educational
topics) for AsianWeek and the former Millbrae/San Bruno Sun and San
Mateo Weekly.
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Maw Shein Win's work
- has appeared in 2River, No Tell Motel, Big
Bridge, Babel Fruit, Moria, and other journals. She was an Artist in
Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and has an upcoming
residency at Can Serrat in Spain.
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Nellie Wong
- is the author of three books of poetry. She's in the film,
"Mitsuye & Nellie Asian American Poets," and has poems engraved on
public sites.
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Debbie Yee
- is a trusts and estates attorney and poet. A Kundiman
fellow, Debbie's poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Barn Owl Review and
MiPOesias, among others.
October 25, 2008–January 18, 2009
de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
On Saturday, December 6, 2008 the Asian American Women Artists
Association (AAWAA) presented a panel presentation of artists at the
de Young Museum in San Francisco. This engaging conversation was
facilitated by CBS 5 Eyewitness news reporter Sue Kwon,
AsianAMERICANArt: Re-framing the Genre in conjunction with the de
Young's exhibition, Asian | American | Modern Art: Shifting Currents,
1900 - 1970.
Shifting Currents curator and SFSU art professor Mark Johnson gave
introductory remarks, contextualizing AAWAA's parallel history as an
arts organization which began when he and others launched their
research on the role of Asian American artists in our country's
cultural landscape.
The video clip is a little low res but his intro to this historic event can be heard on on YouTube!
Places at the Table: Asian Women Artists and Gender Dynamics
Saturday, September 13, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Symposium at UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art Museum
Followed by a reception with the speakers and artists at Mills
For more information: http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2008.09.13w.html
Note that the conference will be at the Berkeley Art Museum Theater beginning at 9:00 AM on Saturday, September 13, while the reception to follow at 5:30 PM will be at the Mills College Art Museum.
The Offering Table: Women Activist Artists from Korea
Opening reception: Saturday, September 6, 4:00-6:00 PM
An exhibition taking place at Mills College
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Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women
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“Cheers to Muses
is a spirited tribute to the creative efforts of Asian American women artists and writers across generations and cultural backgrounds. Honoring those who inspired them, the works in this collection offer readers intimate glimpses into the contemporary sensibilities and experiences of Asian American women's lives.”
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— Margo Machida, Associate Professor, Art History and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut
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