This limited edition print catalogue is an educational resource and memento featuring work by all artists involved in Sowing Agency (2021), including Pam Tau Lee, Erina Alejo, Priya Handa, Cindy Shih and many more. See the full list of artists here.

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AAWAA sits on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land in what is now known as San Francisco. As an Asian American women led organization, AAWAA recognizes many of our ancestors as displaced or pulled from their own indigenous roots to become guests on stolen land. We acknowledge both the erasure of indigenous knowledge and culture within our AAPI communities and the great debt we owe from benefiting off the genocide waged against the Ohlone people. In solidarity, we want to name and honor the lives and agency of native peoples who continue to steward the histories and futures of these places.

Your purchase toward Sowing Agency will help AAWAA contribute to an annual Institutional Shuumi Land Tax to support the critical work of Sogorea Te Land Trust to rematriate Indigenous land to Indigenous people. The Shuumi Land Tax is a voluntary annual contribution that non-Indigenous people, businesses and organizations can make. We encourage you to learn more, spread the word and engage with this significant work as an act of solidarity in returning the land to Indigenous people.

Sowing Agency is inspired by the fight for environmental justice, activating our Asian Pacific Islander communities to engage in the issues of today’s climate crisis. With a number of artistic disciplines represented, the pieces featured in the show work to realign our relationships with the Earth through introspection and collective leadership. The exhibition’s broad coalition of community partners amplifies calls for increased action to challenge extractive industries, monocultures, corporate greed and colonization. Weaving local and global climate resistance into our cultural consciousness, Sowing Agency is a visual and poetic address to the grief and resiliency rooted in “seeding the future.”