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What's
New | Calendar | Current Exhibition | Auction CHINA: JUNE 4, 1989
On June 5, 1989, in response to the massacre of the students in Tiananmen Square, the Asian American Arts Centre in NY initiated a year long exhibition that eventually brought over 300 artists to participate, drawing attention to this historic tragedy. After the exhibit traveled to several sites over the next few years and the calls to have it and the informative materials that accompanied it died away, the exhibition and the art work that it encompassed lay dormant. Now, on the occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Student Movement this exhibition is being revised with this online exhibition for all to see. Much has passed and China may no longer be the China that it was. For this exhibition, this is not the issue. Tiananmen Square, however, must not be forgotten. So many artists came forward to give selflessly to this cause, creating innumerable memorable images. These images manifest & reflect the global outcry and passion that was felt around the world. If there is any message of these art works to be remembered, like the image of that sole resistor who stood before a line of tanks stopping them in their tracks, it is to stand up for what you believe. Remember Tiananmen Square... MORE... HOME MADE: Picturing Chinese Settlement in New Zealand
Kerry Ann Lee is an artist, designer and educator based in Wellington, New Zealand and is currently in New York doing an Artists residency at the School of Visual Arts with support from the Fulbright New Zealand and the Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust. 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-19thC Cantonese Diaspora and celebrates an alternative cultural history of Chinese settlement through cut-paper, paint, found text and images. [ PRESS RELEASE ] ART SLAM!
For the past several years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held a series of slide/art slams, allowing emerging artists 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. Last year, the Centre hosted two slide slams, showcasing the work of nine artists working in various media. 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. Admission is FREE. EVERYONE is invited. This event is organized by Adliana Bahrin. The ART SLAM Series is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and from The New York Department of Cultural Affairs. The Asian American Arts Centre was founded in 1974 in New York City as a not-for-profit organization to address the distinctive concerns of Asian Americans in the United States. Its mission is to promote the preservation and creative vitality of Asian American cultural growth through the arts, and its historical and aesthetic linkage to other communities. [ PRESS RELEASE ] "America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus Park PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY MAY 8, 3PM at AAAC A special outdoor art event will occur in Columbus Park this Spring/Summer. To rally the community to come together and speak about their community. From children to seniors, in English & in Chinese, with images or without, this opportunity is for all to be heard. Especially welcome are those atuned to the decisions that face Chinatown and know that the future of Chinatown is in our hands. Their voice, ideas, and statements will be painted on panels 18x24 inches all around the outside gates of Columbus Park at a distance of 15-20 feet of each other. A total of about 70-80 panels will be up, Once a week the artists (and volunteers) will come in on the weekend to repaint some panels, and repaint new comments and thoughts on the panels. On the weekends an Open Day where the artists will attend the installation and invite community members to write down their comments on the panels. Each panel will have an email address or phone where the community can email the artist their thoughts and comments to be posted the next week. Volunteers are welcome to sign up and help to mount this extensive weekly effort by contacting Nat@npham.com or aaacinfo@artspiral.org Please, check for updates at http://www.nycmetropoles.com [ PRESS RELEASE ]
Asian/Pacific American Archive Survey
AAAC has appeared as one of the Asian/Pacific American archives survey participants on the NYU website! Go here to read more. Made available by New York University, the Asian/Pacific American Documentary Heritage Archives Survey project is the first systematic attempt to map Asian/Pacific American archival collections in the New York metropolitan area. AAAC is represented as an important archive documenting the development of New York Asian/Pacific American community and art. We are one of the rare organizations that have a professional artists' archive. The archive, currently about 1,500 artists, include Asian Americans producing art, Asian artists who are active in the United States, and other Americans who are significantly influenced by Asia. The 30th Annual Asian/Pacific American Heritage Festival     Featuring a variety of Folk artists from different backgrounds, five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. As for this year, the artists joining Asian American Arts Centre are: Jampa Youden : a Tibetan folk singer who also does traditional jewelry design. Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists who demonstrate their crafts and will have the opportunity to ask questions, make requests and the chance to learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft! Go here to read more about our folk artists. This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances will delight both old and young alike. See you there this weekend! [ PRESS RELEASE ] Art Slam 2009 : Calling For Submission
For the past several years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held a series of slide/art slams, allowing emerging artists 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. Last year, the Centre hosted two slide slams, showcasing the work of ten artists working in various media. ArtSlam is an opportunity for artists to share their work with peers, general audience and art professionals in an open forum for critical exchange. This presentation can be done in slides or digital format. We are inviting all artists, Asian, and Asian-American descent as well as those who have been influenced by Asia to submit their work for participation. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND US:
- 6-10 images of your work (CDR with images in jpeg format or photographs are fine) All submission must be sent to: All Hands Deck: Crafting The Teachable Moment
AAAC education programs will be featured at Cool Culture from 9am to 130pm on March 26 at South St Seaport called Crafting the Teachable Moment. Come and experience AAAC culturally diverse approach to art education. Or book a tour of AAAC gallery directly through aaainfo@artspiral.org By encouraging an encounter with an art work in relation to one's own background, a viewer can become conscious of what is learned visually, intuitively. Doing this with young children for over a dozen years has demonstrated how diversity and visual games can be integrated seamlessly as a valid and enriching addition to education. You can become conscious of what is learned visually. The Digital Archive: artasiamerica
[ PRESS RELEASE ] Lunar New Year Folk Art Exhibition (extended) Exhibition of Tibetan Thangka Paintings Exhibition for the Tibetan Thangka Paintings is extended till the end of March 2009. For more information, see under Current Exhibition.
[ PRESS RELEASE ] A Lunar New Year Folk Festival 2009 Date: Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Sunday, February 1, 2009 from 3:00 - 5:30 p.m. & Exhibition of Tibetan Thangka Paintings January 21 - March 13 2009 Opening Reception: Sun, Feb 8 2009 3:00pm-5:30pm 
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, the Arts Centre is pleased to announce "A Lunar New Year Folk Arts Festival" featuring Asian Folk Artists, and a Tibetan folk singer. Five traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on demonstrations. Artists include: Ye Xun - a Chinese miniature dough figurine artist, Rose Sigal-Ibsen - Sumi-e ink calligrapher, Kavita Vyas - an Indian Mahendi hand painting artist, Duong Truong - fortune teller, Kwok Kay Choey - an Er Hu performer, together with Jampa Youden - a Tibetan folk singing performance. New Year delicacies will also be served. Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists who demonstrate their crafts and will have the opportunity to ask questions, make requests and the chance to learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft and to enjoy traditional folk singing. This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances will delight both old and young alike. Festival Admission: General - $12; Senior Citizens, Students - $6; Children 3 - 12 - $6: and for Children 3 and under - Free. * Come early. Space is limited! For reservation and information, write to aaacinfo@artspiral.org or call (646) 831 9744. Tibetan Thangka Paintings Exhibtion [ PRESS RELEASE ] Zero Capital's CLUSTERBOMB! At Asian American Arts Centre Date: December 13 - January 15, 2009Opening Reception & Performance: Saturday, Dec 13, 6 to 9 pm Closing Night Reception: Thurs, Jan 15, 6pm - onwards
Zero Capital's CLUSTERBOMB! will open at the Asian American Arts Centre at 26 Bowery, 3rd floor with a reception and performances from 6 to 9 pm. Asian American Arts Centre welcomes Zero Capital and is proud to support their initiating exhibition. 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. Zero Capital is a collective of NYC based, as well as national and international artists, writers, activists, cultural workers and youth, with outsider artists messaging a possibility. Artists include: Tomie Arai, Regie Cabico, Fay Chiang, Jean Chiang, Jason DaSilva, Paul Gilman, Lauren Hokoyama, Arlan Huang, Jason Kao Hwang, Siddhartha Joag, Mia Kang, Perry Mamaril, Mari Nakano, Danny Phelan, F. Omar Telan, Laura Wilde and Bella Noir, Angel Velasco Shaw and others. [ PRESS RELEASE ] Asian American Arts Centre Presents: Panel Talk at AAAC: Friday, Dec 5, 2008, 5:30pm Press Conference at AAAC: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 3pm Walking Tour: Oct 27, Nov 12, Dec 5 2008
Participating Artists: Katarina Wong, Wennie Huang, Tamiko Kawata, Olivia Beens, Wan Ling Li, Angela Valeria, Tamara Gubernat, Laura Chipley, Francisca Porali, Nathalie Pham, Avani Patel, Yo Park. This Fall the Asian American Arts Centre joins in a cross-borough collaboration called Metro Poles occurring simultaneously in Jamaica, the Bronx & Lower Manhattan. Metro Poles in Chinatown marks the first time AAAC will partner with the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center & Chinatown Manpower Project & other local entities as installation sites for artists art works. This will open community institutions to the innovations and ideas of new art inviting a New York audience from Manhattan & other boroughs together with local people & residents. *** Note: Stay tune to the continuation of Metro Poles In Chinatown at Columbus Park! Date: TBA/Summer 2009 [ PRESS RELEASE ]ArtSlam 2008 Dates: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 , 7-9 pm and Friday, August 15th 2008 7-9pm Admission: FREE Click HERE for the ArtSlam flyer [ PRESS RELEASE ] 
This event is organized by Adliana Bahrin, program assistant at AAAC. Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Friday, August 15th 2008, from 7 to Onwards: For more information please email aaacinfo@artspiral.org or call 212.233.2154 "What I found that evening [of the ArtSlam] was a group of artists who were hungry to show their work and to dialog with other artists and critics. They absorbed the conversation around each others' work and participated generously, giving their own thoughts and observations. I thought the ArtSlam was exactly what a community of artists needs periodically. They need a chance to come together, share and test out their work and ideas in an intimate environment. Outside the university setting, this kind of evening is all too rare and precious." Emily Cheng (read full letter) ArtSlams "I cannot begin to express what you gave me other than to say a whole new confidence in the value of continuing to take risks, make mistakes and do it all again. Thank you for the opportunity you gave my work to be seen and criticized by young professional artists and educators and well-informed artists as yourselves." -- Lathoriel Badenhausen "I cannot quantify the impact that ArtSlam has brought to my art career since the event, but the confidence that I got from the success of the event was tremendous, and gave me the strength and belief required to further pursue and sustain my practice in the art which eventually led to more valuable opportunity and endeavors." -- Eugenie Tung "ArtSlams program provides emerging and young artists a competitive yet productive occasion for presenting their works and receiving feedbacks. "-- Reiko Tomii "I am sure that the artists felt fantastic from the serious manner in which their work was discussed by the audience critics and curators. I thought the program was well organized and the tone was casual yet professional." -- Barbara Ellmann "The ArtSlam afforded me a much needed chance to express my views on my work in a supportive environment. This was very beneficial as English is not my mother tongue." -- Soyeon Cho "The audience benefits because it lets them into a world seldom seen other than within the artist's studio. For the artist it is invaluable. Contact with a community group enriches the solitary artist by provocative feed back to take to their studio."-- Akiko Kotani "In addition, ArtSlams are also a very unique and valuable program that offer the kind of opportunity that is unlike other art institutions, such as commercial galleries and museums that don't always focus on assisting young and under-represented artists to develop their professional portfolios and skills necessary for their budding careers." -- Bovey Lee "The ArtSlam programs are an invaluable resource for artists, from which they can develop networks, receive feedback, and learn presentation skills. Artists thrive best within a community that allows a free exchange of ideas and opinions, and this dynamic allows their work to thrive as well." -- Deanna Lee "...the AAAC's ArtSlams have offered [participating artists] the rare opportunity to transcend the myriad cultural and ethnic barriers that can falsely and sadly divide New York's artists rather than offer them a larger and richer heritage." -- Libby Seaberg
Saturday Children Art Classes
Fall term: Sept 27, 2008 - Jan 24, 2009. 1st Art Class, Ages 4-6: A program designed for those new to the arts to stimulate the student's creativity and capacity to explore their own artistic originality and cultural background. 2nd Art Class, Ages 6-8: This program is designed to further stimulate student's creativity and capacity to explore their own artistic originality and cultural background. 3rd Art Class, 9-14: For children focuses on portfolio-building with an emphasis on advanced techniques with individual personal instruction by the Centre's art educators and specialists. $195 Tuition, $30 Supplies and Materials CALL US AT (917) 923-8118!
Tai Chi Classes with Eleanor Yung
Tai Chi for 8 weeks, the first chapter. ($100 for 8-week session/$20 for a single class) *Ongoing Advanced Tai Chi Class: Every Saturday 10:15am - 11:15am The practice of Taichi Chuan is known to be beneficial to health and wellbeing. It is found to lower blood pressure, increase bone density, reduce stress as well as improve balance, co-ordination and body alignment. Learn to move gracefully while improving health and wellness. Eleanor Yung, acupuncturist, has been teaching the form as taught by the late Master Ham King Koo since 1995. This nei-gung taichi form consists of 81 moves and is divided into three chapters. The form is accompanied by a series of warm-up qi-gung exercises. To sign up, please email esyung@aol.com or call AAAC at 917.923.8118.
See: addition to Programs Chronology from
2002 to present, particularly the AAAC Story conference materials. See: Chinese article about Nuo that can be
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