Please find the upcoming Diasporic Asian Art Network [DAAN] events happening during the College Art Association 2018 week in Los Angeles from February 21-24, 2018. We hope that you can attend one or all of them!
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
DAAN PANEL SESSION:
Title: The Virtual Asian American Art Museum: Postwar Japanese American Art in Chicago
2:00–3:30PM
At College Art Association L.A. Convention Center
1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Room: 503
CAA Conference registration required
Chair: Laura Kina, DePaul University
“Chicago: Someday, Somewhere — the Photography of James Numata and Yasuhiro Ishimoto”
Jasmine Alinder, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; John Tain, Asia Art Archive
“Ray Yoshida’s Museum of Extraordinary Values”
Karen Patterson, John Michael Kohler Arts Center
“Michiko Itatani: Painting the Cosmic Novel”
Laura Kina, DePaul University
This panel focuses on the work and transnational lives of four Japanese American postwar artists—James Numata (1918–1997), Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012), Ray Yoshida (1930–2009), and Michiko Itatani (1948–)—featured in the “Chicago-Midwest” module of The Virtual Asian American Art Museum (VAAAM). VAAAM is a large-scale digital humanities project led by New York University Asian/Pacific/American Institute (A/P/A) and the New York University Division of Libraries in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and the Getty Research Institute that features enhanced access to an array of art and tools for presenting new collaborative scholarship on Asian American art history.
The “Chicago-Midwest” module geospatially maps the careers of artists in Chicago against known social patterns and settlements in the city. The first portion of this scalable module is a series of submodules highlighting Japanese American artists whose biographies reflect immigration and migration paths of Japanese to Chicago including pre-WWII labor migration, post-WWII Japanese American internment camp resettlement, migration from Hawaii to Chicago, and post-1965 immigration from Japan. The role that institutions such as the Institute of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago had in drawing artists from around the world is examined, as is the role of archives and collections, such as those of the Japanese American Service Committee and the Art Institute of Chicago, in recording and preserving their histories. These artists are historically and/or artistically significant, but have been underrepresented in the canon of art history and master narrative of the Japanese American experience.
This new scholarship on Chicago-based content has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of the foundation’s initiative Art Design Chicago, an exploration of Chicago’s art and design history and legacy.
The A/P/A Institute at NYU is the institutional sponsor of the Diasporic Asian Art Network.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Affiliated Society Business Meeting: Diasporic Asian Art Network (DAAN)
12:30–1:30 PM
Scheduled Room at the LA Convention Center: 507
CAA Conference registration required
Please come to the DAAN business meeting to talk about the future of the network including its planned restructuring for 2019 and open positions.
The agenda will include:
• leadership positions that are open for 2019 with DAAN (organizer, regional reps, and secretary positions)
• DAAN panel topics and panel committee members
• member projects and opportunities
Friday, February 23, 2018
Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) Journal Spring 2018 Issue Celebration!
3:00-5:00PM
At College Art Association L.A. Convention Center
1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
A/P/A Institute at NYU Exhibit Booth number 428, Concourse Hall EF
DAAN members are invited to the Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas journal celebration at the exhibition hall during the conference.
Join the editors of the Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) journal for a toast as they celebrate the latest ADVA journal Spring 2018 double issue “Beyond Canada 150: Asian Canadian Visual Cultures” guest edited by Chris Lee, Glenn Deer, and Marissa Largo. ADVA journal is published by Brill and is a collaboration between A/P/A Institute at New York University and Concordia University’s Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art.
CAA Conference registration required or please email achang@nyu.edu to request a free exhibition hall pass for the event (limited amount available).
Friday, February 23, 2018
Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles “Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art” Tour, Catalog Launch, and Reception
6:00PM DAAN Tour of the exhibition
6:30PM Catalog Launch Panel/Reception
Location: Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles
425 N Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
DAAN members are invited to meet the museum staff and view the exhibition “Circles and Circles II: Contemporary Chinese Caribbean Art,” which is part of the “Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art” exhibitions at CAMLA and the California African American Museum, which is hosting “Circles and Circles I: History and Art of the Chinese Caribbean Diaspora.” The exhibitions are part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 at more than seventy cultural institutions across Southern California. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty.
Join us in celebrating the release of Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art exhibition catalog with a reception and panel discussion featuring co-curator Alexandra Chang, catalog contributors: Lok Siu and Sean Metzger, and artists featured in the exhibition including Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Richard Fung, and Yoland Skeete. The evening will include a screening of short films by Richard Fung and Peter Chin, and a performance by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons during the reception.
Please RSVP for this tour and program to achang@nyu.edu.
Saturday, February 24, 2018
DAAN Patio Party at the home of artist Yong Soon Min
Time: Afternoon from 1PM
Please RSVP to achang@nyu.edu for location details.
Relax and mingle with refreshments. DAAN member artist Yong Soon Min will host a special gathering during the last day of College Art Association at her new Los Angeles home. She welcomes new and old members for some lively conversation post conference!
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