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AAAC exhibitions program seeks to engage viewers in the historical presence of an Asian American artistic development, raising issues and aesthetics of particular interest from an Asian American perspective, while supporting creative opportunities for young artists. Many exhibitions include young Asian American artists or artists significantly influenced by Asia. The Mid-Career Artist Series presents a one or two person show. This is an occasional series focused on recognizing the achievements of a mid-career artist. Mid-career artists are nominated & selected by a panel of professionals in the arts.



2011-2012


33rd Annual Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Festival
Program

Date: Saturday, May 12th, 2012
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Archway in Dumbo, Brooklyn (underneath Brooklyn Bridge)

AAAC will have folk arts demonstration at our booth. Be sure to drop by!

Click HERE for more information.



Lunar New Year Festival 2012
Event

Date: Sat, Jan 28th, 2011
Time: 10:30am - 6:00pm
Location: Children's Museum of Art, 103 Charlton Street, New York, NY
Entrance Fee: $10

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2010-2011


AAAC Artist Archive - Present. Talk. Discuss
Presentation and Discussion

Date: Wed, Oct 12th, 2011 4pm-6pm;
Thur, Oct 13th, 6p.m. - 8p.m
Location: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Community Center (Los Kabayitos Theater), 107 Suffolk St (at Rivington), New York, NY

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Art Slam 2011
Dates: TBA/2011
Location: TBA



Kim Loo Sisters: Portraits in Four-Part Harmony
Film screening

Date: Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location: University Settlement's Houston Street Center 273 Bowery, New York, 10002

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32nd Annual Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Festival
Program

Date: Sunday, May 8th, 2011
Time: noon - 6:30pm
Location: Union Square Park

AAAC will have folk arts demonstration at our booth. Be sure to drop by!

Click HERE for more information.



To Japan With Love
Fundraising event

Dates: Monday, April 4th 2011
Location: Tenri Cultural Institute (map)

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Boom Box
Exhibition

Dates: March 16 - March 31, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 17, 5:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 2nd Flr. (map)

Artists: Amy Chan, Ming Fay, Jung Hyang Kim, and Hyungsub Shin.



Infinite Mirrors - Images of American Identity
travelling exhibition: part of Artrain

Dates: January 25th to March 20th, 2011
Location: Syracuse University Art Galleries

Artists: Tomie Arai, Sungho Choi, John Yoyogi Fortes, Eunjung Hwang, Indira Freitas Johnson, Scott Tsuchitani, Kakyoung Lee, Tara Sabharwal, China Marks, Chunwoo Nam, Swati Khurana



AAAC Lunar New Year Folk Festival
Program

Dates: Sunday, Feb 13th, 2011 | 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Location: Asian American Arts Centre
Admission: FREE!

"A Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival" featuring Asian Folk artists and musicians. Five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. Artists include Ming Liang Lu - master papercut artists particularly of portraits, Ye Xun - a Chinese miniature dough figurine artist, Kavita Vyas - an Indian Mahendi hand painting artist, Rose and Jampa Youden - a Tibetan folk singing performance.

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8 Artists: From The AAAC Archive
Exhibition

Dates: August - September 2010
Location: Cuchifritos Gallery, NYC

Artists: Charles Yuen, Dinh Q. Le , Dorothy Imagire, Eunjung Hwang, Howardena Pindell, Nancy Hom, Roger Shimomura, and, Sin-ying Ho.



Art Slam 2010
Dates: October 14 & October 21, 2010
Location: Asian American Arts Centre

THURSDAY OCT 14TH, 5PM-630PM
Participating Artists:
Jing Zhou, Vivian Oyarbide, Maia Cruz Palileo, and Uday Kdhar.

THURSDAY OCT 21ST, 5PM-630PM | POTLUCK!!! Bring your friends and food!
Participating Artists:
Carol Tanjutco, Susan Lee Yung, Justin Baldwin, Betty Taopat Kaos, and Roshani Thakore.

ArtSlam event is to promote emerging artists allowing them the opportunity to present and talk about their work, meet and network with each other as well as with more established artists and critics/curators.



2009-2010


Asian American Arts Centre at The 31st CAPA Heritage Festival!

Date: Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Union Square Park (map)
Admission: FREE

For more information about CAPA Heritage Festival, go to www.capaonline.org



America's Chinatown Voices:
Exhibtion & Silent Auction

Exhibition

Date: April 23nd to May 9th, 2010
Bidding at Opening Reception April 22, 6-8pm
Location: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 3rd Floor
(map)

Panels/artworks by the community from the outdoor installation "America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus Park

Dozens of painted panels made by community people, children, artists & other New Yorkers from the previous installation "America's Chinatown Voices" will be mounted at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. There will be a night where the panels will be auction.

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New York Lunar New Year Flower Festival
Date: Fri. 2/12 10am-10pm & Sat 2/13 10am-7pm
Location: Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Chinatown, NYC (map)
Admision: FREE!

"A Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival" featuring Asian Folk artists and musicians. Traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. Artists include a Chinese miniature dough figurine artist, a calligrapher, a Korean Knotting artist, an Indian Mahendi hand painting artist, an Er Hu performer, together with a Tibetan folk dance and music performance. New Year delicacies will also be served. Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists and ask questions, make requests and learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft and music. This is an ideal event for families.



China on the Way to Modernization (From the Republic to the Present
Lectures by Dr. Fang Lili and Zhu Legeng

Date: Sunday, Dec 13th 2009
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Location: Univeristy Settlement/Houston Street Center, 273 Bowery (map)
Admission: FREE



Dialogues in the Visual Arts Series: Out of the Archive: Progress and Community
Artists Panel

Date: Wednesday, Dec 9th 2009
Time: 7:00PM - 9:30PM
Location: BMCC Tribeca Performance Arts Center
Admission: $5 inclusive of refreshments.

AAAC is collaborating with BMCC Tribeca Performance Arts Center for " Out of the Archive: Progress and Community", a lively artists' panel commemorating the recently launched digital archive, artasiamerica.org.

A panel conversation about the Asian American Art Centre's important web site artasiamerica.org, reflecting 60 years and several generations artistic production by Asian American artists and the organization’s current community development efforts.

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Out Of The Archive: PROCESS & PROGRESS
Date: September 18 - October 7, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday September 18th 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Gallery Talk with Artists & Scholars: Wed October 7th 6pm-8pm.
Location: White Box 329 Broome St.

To commemorate the launch of www.artasiamerica.org and the 35th Anniversary Celebration of the Asian American Arts Centre, AAAC exhibits Tomie Arai, Albert Chong, John Yoyogi Fortes, and Swati Khurana for the last exhibition at 26 Bowery.

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The Digital Archive - artasiamerica
Date: Spring/Summer 2009

Launching of artasiamerica. For more information, write to archive@artspiral.org or call us at 212-223-2154.

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2008-2009

Computer Art Residency: A Collaboration with Immigrant Social Service Inc.
Date: July 27 - July 31, 2009
Location: Immigrant Social Service (ISS), 137 Henry St Artist: Jiawei Gong

During the Residency, Jiawei Gong will interact with teenagers on a casual, informal basis, spending time with them, answering their questions and curiosity, and in this way introduce young people to creativity & how technology can be used to further creative goals.



HOME MADE: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand
Artist Talk by Kerry Ann Lee
Date: Wed, July 8th, 2009
Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM

Home Made is a visual art and design project that draws upon Lee's heritage to interogate Chinese identity in New Zealand. The lavishly illustrated artist book expands the discussion on mid-19th CenturyCantonese Diaspora and celebrates an alternative cultural history of Chinese settlement through cut-paper, paint, found text and images. See Press Release.



ART SLAM 2009
Dates: July 3rd, 2009
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Admission: FREE

On Friday, July 3rd, Asian American Arts Centre will be hosting the annual ART SLAM, showcasing the work of emerging Asian-American & Asia influenced artists. Participating Artists are Hwa Hyun Kim, Kerry Ann Lee, Nung-Hsen Hu, and Xiaoqing Ding. More to be announce.



CHINA: JUNE 4, 1989
Online Exhibition
Date: June 4, 2009 - Ongoing
Go to Current Exhibition.



"America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus Park
Date: May 09 - August 08, 2009
Artists: Nathalie Pham and Avani Patel

A special outdoor art event will occur in Columbus Park this Spring/Summer to rally the community to come together and speak about their thoughts and experiences in the community.
See Press Release.



Asian American Arts Centre at The 30th CAPA Heritage Festival!
Date: Sunday, May 3rd 2009
Time: 12:00PM - 6:00PM
Admission: FREE

For more information about CAPA Heritage Festival, go to www.capaonline.org



Exhibition of Tibetan Thangka Paintings
Date: January 21 - March 31 2009
Opening Reception: Sunday, Feb 1, 2009 3:00pm-5:30pm

In addition to our Annual Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival, an exhibition of some high quality Tibetan Thangka paintings as well as works from AAAC Permanent Collection of Folk Art will be on view during this festival. The dates of the exhibition are January 26 till March 13, 2009. Thangka paintings usually depict deities and saints, aspects of the life of the Buddha, as well as the more abstract Mandalas, astrological charts, medical descriptions and scenes, usually serving as a supplementary aid to religious educational development. They are meant as focal elements for visualization, meditation and contemplation. See Press Release.



Annual Lunar New Year Folk Festival
Date: Sunday, Feb 1, 2009, 3:00pm - 5:30pm
Admission: $12 General, $6 Senior Citizens & Students; $6 Children 12 - 3 years old; Free under the age of 3.

"A Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival" featuring Asian Folk artists and musicians. Five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. Artists include a Chinese miniature dough figurine artist, a calligrapher, an Indian Mahendi hand painting artist, an Er Hu performer, together with a Tibetan folk dance and music performance. New Year delicacies will also be served. Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists and ask questions, make requests and learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft and music. This is an ideal event for families.



CLUSTERBOMB!
The First Zero Capital Exhibition

Date: December 13th, 2008 - January 15th 2009

CLUSTERBOMB! is a creative response to physical and psychological displacement in the post 9-11 era of disillusionment and artistic inertia. It is an interdisciplinary, intergenerational and transnational network of artists, writers, activists, cultural workers and youth. Participants are posing a collective challenge to the issue of have and have-nots, why those who have are getting more and those who don't have are getting less or nothing.



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GENERAL

Gallery Tour for Groups

By appointment; $2 per person attending; minimum 15 people; 30-45 min. Tours can be arranged according to the needs of each group. Tailored for each group talks normally cover an introduction to Asian art, the Arts Centre, its purpose, history or context in the Asian American community of Lower Manhattan, diversity as exemplified by the racial complexion of the present group, an introduction to selected art works, as well as a methodology to visual learning.

Asian American artists, talks and performance events on site also available for booking. Contact Us.



Community Art School

Art Classes for Children from 4 to 14 yrs old. Sundays 11:30 - 4:00 pm. Fall and Spring semesters. Classes are set for January 31st,2010 - June 5th, 2010. Parents interested in children classes on Sunday morning should call and let us know of your interest. Instructor - Bei Wen. Please read more in the education section for further information.

*** Community Art School no longer available. ***



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All exhibitions unless otherwise indicated was held at Asian American Arts Centre 26 Bowery 3 Fl above McDonalds, in Chinatown, one block below Canal St. New York NY 10013. Gallery hours are M-F 1230 to 630pm, Thurs till 730pm. Current exhibitions and much, much more, are posted on www.artspiral.org For further information call 212.233.2154 or write aaacinfo@arspiral.org

*Important Notice*
Asian American Arts Centre now is located at 111 Norfolk Street, 1st Flr. New York, NY 10002. For more information go to Contact Us

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