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SUMMARY:"What Color Am I?" Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening of our new Spotlight Series exhibition “What Color Am I” by Sarah Whyte. \nRSVP HERE \nDate: March 26\, 2023\nTime: 1-4pm\nVenue: Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 4th Fl\nAddress: 238 W 23rd Street\, Chicago\, IL 60616 \nStatement About the Art \nWhere does the paradox of being called a China doll and then being told that color does not matter leave you? What Color Am I? Is a series of artworks that talks about the complications of racial understanding as a person of color raised by white parents. \nThrough captivating embroidered slurs on fake Chinese silk and breathtaking self-portraits that are obscured with layers of text\, imagery\, embroidery\, and gesso\, this visual story explores the struggles between the duality of racial identity and relationship. \nThe embroideries and paintings start separately but merge as a visual representation of both the artist’s Asian ethnicity and their white upbringing being a part of who they are. In the embroidery pieces when people see the shiny brocade-style fabric with dragons and phoenixes on it oftentimes they think that’s what Chinese silk is\, but the material Sarah is using is actually 100% polyester. Synthetic fibers like polyester melt whereas natural fibers like 100% silk burn. This detail reveal can be seen on the edges of most of the embroidery pieces. Sarah chose this material as a play on her labeled identity as a “fake Asian”. \nFor the paintings\, Sarah creates colorfully rendered self-portraits and then covers up most of the image in a gray-white gesso wash. She obscured the portraits with layers because so much of her own identity is obscured by layers of racial ambiguity. Then she hands embroidered poems she wrote in relation to the piece onto the painting. After the embroidery was finished she would cover up the words with a block of paint. Physically the words are there but unless you take a close look at the painting the words are easy to miss. It’s almost like she is highlighting and yet also erasing the embroidered words\, sharing and yet also not making it easy for the viewer to read. \nSo often the question of race in transracial adoption is the elephant in the room because remember it doesn’t matter what you look like you are my child. But Sarah believes it’s essential that we acknowledge the issue of racism and systematic oppression that coincides. Through her work\, Sarah poses the question of perception. Do you understand the material\, the body\, and the form as authentic or inauthentic? How do we label and choose what belongs and does not belong to these categories of race\, identity\, and community? What are the lines of the social construct that are flexible and fluid? After all\, what is and is not considered to be a part of these groupings can change depending on the narrator and the social climate we live in. Does it matter if you perceive yourself differently than the general public? \nWhat does it mean to be Asian? To be Chinese? To be “yellow”? To be “white”? To be American? Where do people draw the racial lines and how do they categorize race? \nSo\, tell me What Color Am I? and What Color Are You? \nArtist Bio \nSarah Whyte is an interdisciplinary fiber artist and painter whose work questions her identity. As a Chinese American\, woman adoptee who grew up in a white family Sarah’s identity is complicated. Through her experience with both transracial and transnational adoption\, She examines the hierarchy of race\, gender\, and culture within her artwork. \nSarah was born in China and lived in an orphanage at the beginning of her formative years. Sarah was then adopted and brought to the United States where she grew up in Virginia and Texas before moving to Chicago for school. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and is currently getting her MFA in Studio Arts at The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and is expected to graduate in 2024. \nRegister on Eventbrite
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/what-color-am-i-exhibition-opening/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Kara Eng
DESCRIPTION:A Free Event! Come meet the author of “Not Just a Simple Chinese Girl” \, Kara Eng and discuss her book. RSVP HERE or at the link below!  \nDate: March 25\, 2023\nTime: 2:00pm – 3:30pm\nVenue: Chinese American Museum of Chicago\nAddress: 238 W 23rd Street\, Chicago\, IL 60616 \nBook Synopsis:\nLiving in the outskirts of Chicago’s Chinatown\, Vanessa Jade Lee always believed that she knew the truth about herself and her family. Her days have been filled with nothing but bliss and joy…or so it seems… For the past ten years\, she had set her eyes forward\, determined to forget\, trying desperately to flee from the pain of the past.\nBut all efforts to avoid such memories slowly unravel when she encounters a mysterious photograph that threatens to tear apart her family and the reality of its troubled past. Forced to distinguish between truth and\, sometimes unintentional\, lies and deception\, Vanessa realizes that she must be willing to break through the glass of her own little world and consider the sacrifices she must make in order to get to the bottom of this.\nAbout the Author:\nKara Eng is a teen author and has been influenced by her Chinese-American family\, culture\, and community to write ever since she was a little girl. Her love for Christ has led her to found her Inspire Club to involve\, impact\, and inspire others in Chicago. When she is not writing or engrossed in books\, you will find her playing volleyball\, babysitting\, or hanging out with friends. \nRegister on Eventbrite
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/book-talk-with-kara-eng/
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Kara Eng: Not Just a Simple Chinese Girl
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SUMMARY:The Six Movie Screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Join us for viewing of “The Six”\, the movie will be followed by Q&A session with “The Six” co-creator\, Steven Schwankert\, the co-creator and lead researcher of The Six\, a book and documentary film project revealing the story of RMS Titanic’s Chinese passengers.\nMovie Description\nWhen RMS Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912\, barely 700 people escaped with their lives. Among them were six Chinese men. Arriving in New York with the other survivors\, the six were met not with compassion\, but suspicion and slander. Less than 24 hours later\, they were expelled from the country and vanished. What became of them\, and why did they disappear so completely? In an epic journey that crosses continents\, an international team of investigators sets out to uncover the truth about the six Chinese\, and to right a century-old injustice. For the first time\, we discover who these men really were\, tracing their origins and tracking down descendants denied access to their history. “The Six” is an extraordinary story of survival and dignity in the face of racism and anti-immigrant policy that still reverberates today. \nTO MEMBERS\n\n  \nMembers Tickets are FREE \n***please lookout for an upcoming email that will include your promocode to redeem your free ticket***
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/the-six-movie-screening-and-qa/
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SUMMARY:Sip & Paint Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Paint never-before-seen artifacts while sipping tea made in the traditional gongfucha style. All proceeds go to sustaining our museum. \n\n\n\nJoin the Chinese American Museum of Chicago’s Associate Board for paint and tea time!\nTicket Tiers\nTier 1 Donation\n$30 – Choose one item from the 4th floor public display to paint \nTier 2 Donation\n$50 – Choose one of three (3) never-before-seen artifacts to paint \nTier 3 Donation\n$100 – Choose one of three (3) never-before-seen artifacts to paint and receive a 1-year museum membership \n  \nAll tiers include tea\, snacks\, and paint materials. Food and drinks are prohibited on the 1st and 2nd floors of the museum.\nThe tea tasting is sponsored by Life is Tea.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/sip-paint-fundraiser/
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SUMMARY:UNITY\, Maggie Wong Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibit:\nThe Spotlight Series at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago is pleased to present UNITY\, Maggie Wong’s first solo exhibition in Chicago. \nThrough various manipulations of newsprint via sculptural and print interventions pulled from the artist’s collection of Unity Newspaper\, the show depicts a version of childcare that supported revolutionary action\, particularly the publishing of Unity by the League of Revolutionary Struggle\, a radical communist group that emerged in 1978 upon the merger between the August 29th Movement\, a Chicano revolutionary organization\, and I Wor Kuen\, an Asian American revolutionary organization\, both influenced by Mao and followed Marxist-Leninist thought. \nThis system is what raised the artist and countless other now-grown adults that now serves as a point of departure to feel through a movement as a mothering environment. \nAbout the Artist:\nMaggie Wong (b.1988\, Oakland\, CA) is a visual artist attuned to materiality and sculpture’s disciplinary capacity to shape social space. She creates multidisciplinary works that focus on care labor\, sentimentality\, and collectivity. As a teacher. Maggie is interested in the interplay between informal and experiential education amidst formal art ecologies. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is currently the Educator-in-Residence at the Luminary\, and lecturer at SAIC. Her work has been shown at Mana Contemporary Chicago\, Comfort Station\, Annas Projects\, take care (LA)\, Temple Contemporary\, YBCA\, and 99cent Plus\, and has been written about in ArtForum and Sixty Inches from Center. Her writing has been published by Yale University Press\, Viral Ecologies\, and the Journal of Art Practice.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/unity-maggie-wong-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
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SUMMARY:UNITY\, Maggie Wong
DESCRIPTION:The Spotlight Series at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago is pleased to present UNITY\, Maggie Wong’s first solo exhibition in Chicago. \nThrough various manipulations of newsprint via sculptural and print interventions pulled from the artist’s collection of Unity Newspaper\, the show depicts a version of childcare that supported revolutionary action\, particularly the publishing of Unity by the League of Revolutionary Struggle\, a radical communist group that emerged in 1978 upon the merger between the August 29th Movement\, a Chicano revolutionary organization\, and I Wor Kuen\, an Asian American revolutionary organization\, both influenced by Mao and followed Marxist-Leninist thought. \nThis system is what raised the artist and countless other now-grown adults that now serves as a point of departure to feel through a movement as a mothering environment. \nAbout the Artist:\nMaggie Wong (b.1988\, Oakland\, CA) is a visual artist attuned to materiality and sculpture’s disciplinary capacity to shape social space. She creates multidisciplinary works that focus on care labor\, sentimentality\, and collectivity. As a teacher. Maggie is interested in the interplay between informal and experiential education amidst formal art ecologies. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). She is currently the Educator-in-Residence at the Luminary\, and lecturer at SAIC. Her work has been shown at Mana Contemporary Chicago\, Comfort Station\, Annas Projects\, take care (LA)\, Temple Contemporary\, YBCA\, and 99cent Plus\, and has been written about in ArtForum and Sixty Inches from Center. Her writing has been published by Yale University Press\, Viral Ecologies\, and the Journal of Art Practice.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/unity-maggie-wong/
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception of "Guanyu Xu: to be seen"
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to announce the fifth exhibition of the Spotlight Series\, featuring artist Guanyu Xu. Please join us on Saturday\, November 5\, from 3pm-6pm CT for the opening reception.\nIn a new body of work centered on an imperial robe on display in the museum\, Chinatown\, and the New York Times repeated coverage of COVID featuring Asian faces\, photographer Guanyu Xu challenges the viewer to reconsider the parallel instances of colonization\, objectification\, fetishization\, and racism in three temporalities. Guanyu Xu: to be seen will run from November 5 through December 17.\nThe Spotlight Series is a new initiative to showcase recent and past work by emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent locally. Curated by Larry Lee (Molar Productions)\, the project aims to introduce\, promote and celebrate the divergent artistic visions and experiences of being Chinese in America looking at and reflecting upon our relationship to contemporary visual culture to a wider audience within our community and Chicago.\n\nAbout the artist:\n徐冠宇 Guanyu Xu (b.1993 Beijing) is an artist currently based in Chicago and a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Influenced by the production of ideology in American visual culture and a conservative familial upbringing in China\, Xu’s practice extends from examining the production of power in photography to the question of personal freedom and its relationship to political regimes. He negotiates this from the perspective as a Chinese gay man. In his work\, Xu migrates between mediums like photography\, new media\, and installation. These movements operate similarly to his displaced and fractured identity.\nHe is the recipient of the Chicago DCASE Artist Grant (2022)\, CENTER Development Grant (2021)\, Hyéres International Festival Prize (2020)\, PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai Exposure Award (2020)\, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Annual Competition (2019)\, Lensculture Emerging Talent Award (2019)\, and Kodak Film Photo Award (2019). He has received artist residencies including ACRE (Chicago\, IL)\, Light Work (Syracuse\, NY)\, and Latitude (Chicago\, IL). His works have been exhibited and screened internationally including the Aperture Foundation\, New York; International Center of Photography\, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago; New Orlean Museum of Art\, New Orleans; Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; Wesleyan University\, Middletown; Fotomuseum Winterthur\, Switzerland; Mint Museum\, Charlotte; 36th Kasseler Dokfest\, Germany\, and others. His work can be found in public collections including San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art\, Harvard Art Museums\, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago\, and New Orleans Museum of Art. His works have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times\, ArtAsiaPacific\, The New Yorker\, W Magazine\, Harper’s Magazine\, Dazed\, and China Photographic Publishing House.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-of-guanyu-xu-to-be-seen-2/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
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SUMMARY:Truths as We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at CAMOC for the first gathering of Truths As We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic on Oct 22! This open mic storytelling gathering\, hosted by Ada Cheng\, is co-sponsored by the Bronzeville Historical Society\, Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, and People Matter. \nThe open mic will rotate between Bronzeville and Chinatown neighborhoods. The inaugural event is on Saturday\, October 22\, at the Chinese Museum of Chicago and our next event is Saturday\, November 19\, at Bronzeville Historical Society. \nWe welcome everyone to participate in these two upcoming events and share their stories. \nOpen mic rules:\n– In-person sign up at 1pm.\n– Arrive early for seats.\n– All open spots are given 7 minutes with a courtesy warning at 6 minutes to perform and can perform more than once if time permits.\n– This is a safe space for all regardless of race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, and ability. \n  \nAbout the producer and host:\nAda Cheng is a professor-turned storyteller\, solo performer\, and storytelling producer. She has been featured in storytelling shows and done her two solo performances all over the country. She is the producer and the host of multiple storytelling shows\, including Pour One Out: A Monthly Storytelling Series\, Am I Man Enough?\, Talk Stories: An Asian American/Asian Diaspora Storytelling Show\, Speaking Truths Series\, and This Is America: Truths through My Body. \nHer motto: Make your life the best story you tell. \nCheck out her website here.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/truths-as-we-speak-them-a-storytelling-open-mic/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music, Film, and Theater,Talks and Gatherings
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SUMMARY:Truths As We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic in Bronzeville/Chinatown
DESCRIPTION:I am very happy to present Truths As We Speak Them: A Storytelling Open Mic in Bronzeville/Chinatown. \nThis open mic storytelling gathering\, hosted by Ada Cheng\, is co-sponsored by Bronzeville Historical Society\, Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, and People Matter.\nOur first event will take place in-person on Saturday October 22 from 1:30-3:00pm CT.\nPlease mask up for safety.\nThis open mic will rotate between Bronzeville and Chinatown neighborhoods.\nWe will have our inaugural event on Saturday October 22 at the Chinese Museum of Chicago and our next event on Saturday November 19 at Bronzeville Historical Society.\nWe welcome everyone to participate in these two upcoming events and share their stories.\nOpen mic rules:\nIn-person sign up at 1pm.\nArrive early for seats.\nAll open spots are given 7 minutes with a courtesy warning at 6 minutes to perform and can perform more than once if time permits.\nThis is a safe space for all regardless of race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, and ability.\n\n\nProducer and host:\nDr. Ada Cheng is a professor-turned storyteller\, solo performer\, and storytelling producer. She has been featured in storytelling shows and done her two solo performances all over the country. She is the producer and the host of multiple storytelling shows. Dr. Cheng uses storytelling to illustrate structural inequities\, to raise critical awareness\, and to build intimate communities.\nHer motto: Make your life the best story you tell.\nCheck out her website: www.renegadeadacheng.com.
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SUMMARY:Sound Performance by Kikù Hibino and Chien-An Yuan
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to host the last of two free public programs inspired by the Spotlight Series exhibition Yuge Zhou: Moon Drawings. The program is a sound performance by Kikù Hibino and Chien-An Yuan on Saturday\, October 15\, from 1pm-2:30pm CT\, a day before the closing of the exhibition. \nRegister here \nAbout the artists:\nJapanese-born Chicago-based sound artist Kikù Hibino produces electronic music that focuses on unusual rhythmic structure and melodies that are inspired by optical illusion and moiré patterns. From chamber music for media productions to digital micro sound for art installations\, he has collaborated internationally with a wide variety of artists and scholars. He’s a 2017 Individual Artist Grant recipient from Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs\, 2021 Outer Ear Artist in Residency at Experimental Sound Studio\, and 2021 nominee for Best Asian Entertainer at Chicago Music Awards. In 2021\, Kikù and his creative partner Gregory Bae launched S/N\, an electronic music concert series. \nChien-An Yuan is an interdisciplinary artist\, designer\, and educator based in Ann Arbor\, MI. Yuan runs 1473\, a record label specializing in improvisation\, electronics\, and collaboration. He is also a founding member of IS/LAND\, a performance collaborative comprised of AAPI movers\, artists\, and collaborators. His work has been featured in The New Yorker\, Chicago Tribune\, ArtSlant\, Huffington Post\, WNYC and many other arts and cultural platforms. \nChien-An Yuan and Kikù Hibino have performed and shown in cultural institutions widely. \nYuge Zhou is a Chinese born\, Chicago-based artist whose videos and installations addresses connections\, isolation and longing across natural and urban spaces as sites of shared dreams. Zhou has exhibited nationally and internationally in prominent art and public venues. Her new dance film “Love Letters” is currently shown as part of Art on theMART’s fall program\, a nightly public art projection onto the facade of the Merchandise Mart\, Chicago. Recent awards include Juried Award in the installation category at ArtPrize 2021\, Artist Fellowship Award in Media Arts from the Illinois Arts Council and Honorary Mention in the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica in Linz\, Austria.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/sound-performance-by-kiku-hibino-and-chien-an-yuan/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events,Music, Film, and Theater,Tour
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SUMMARY:Poetry Session with Chicago Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to host two free public programs for the Spotlight Series exhibition Yuge Zhou: Moon Drawings. The first of these programs is a poetry session in collaboration with the Chicago Poetry Center on Saturday\, September 10\, from 12pm-1pm CT\, coinciding with the Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival. The poetry session will start with a poetry performance by Lisa Low followed by an ekphrastic workshop with participants create and share their poems in response to the themes of the exhibition.\n\nRegister here\n\nAbout the poet\nLisa Low is a poet and essayist from Maryland. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel\, Ecotone\, The Massachusetts Review\, Poetry\, The Southern Review\, and elsewhere\, and her essay “How to Apologize” won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize. She earned an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Cincinnati\, where she served as associate editor at The Cincinnati Review. Her debut chapbook\, Crown for the Girl Inside\, won the 2020 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest and is forthcoming from YesYes Books.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/poetry-session-with-chicago-poetry-center/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Events,Talks and Gatherings,Workshops and Classes
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception of "Yuge Zhou: Moon Drawings"
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to announce the fourth exhibition of the Spotlight Series\, featuring artist Yuge Zhou. Please join us on Saturday\, September 3\, from 3pm-6pm CT for the opening reception. This exhibition will run from September 3 through October 16. Collateral programs of the exhibition include a poetry session in collaboration with the Chicago Poetry Center and a sound performance by local sound artists Kikù Hibino and Chien-An Yuan. \nRSVP for the opening reception here \nIn Yuge Zhou’s ongoing video series Moon Drawings\, we watch her dragging a suitcase in concentric circles through the winter snow and a summer beach under the moonlight in Chicago. The videos were created during the global pandemic travel bans\, and inspired by a Han Dynasty legend about missing loved ones in a faraway land. Much of Zhou’s recent work centers around the great physical and emotional distance between China and America\, two lands she calls home. \nThe Spotlight Series is a new initiative to showcase recent and past work by emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent locally. Curated by Larry Lee (Molar Productions)\, the project aims to introduce\, promote and celebrate the divergent artistic visions and experiences of being Chinese in America looking at and reflecting upon our relationship to contemporary visual culture to a wider audience within our community and Chicago. \nAbout the artist\nZhou has exhibited nationally and internationally in prominent art and public venues with an upcoming premiere of her dance film Love Letters at Art on theMART\, a nightly public art projection onto the facade of the Merchandise Mart\, Chicago. Recent awards include Juried Award in the installation category at ArtPrize 2021\, Artist Fellowship Award in Media Arts from the Illinois Arts Council and Honorary Mention in the 2020 Prix Ars Electronica in Linz\, Austria. (yugezhou.com) \n  \n\nCOLLATERAL PROGRAMS\n\nPoetry Session with Chicago Poetry Center\nDate: Saturday\, September 10\, 2022\nTime: TBA\n\nSound Performance by Kikù Hibino and Chien-An Yuan\nDate: Saturday\, October 15\, 2022\nTime: 1pm – 2:30pm CT\n\nAll events will take place on the 4th floor of the Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, located at 238 W 23rd Street\, Chicago\, IL 60616.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-of-yuge-zhou-moon-drawings/
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception of “Priscilla Kar Yee Lo: Aiming to Please”
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to announce the third exhibition of the Spotlight Series\, featuring glass artist Priscilla Kar Yee Lo. Please join us on Saturday\, July 16\, from 3:00-6:00pm CT for the opening reception. This exhibition will run from July 16 through August 28. \nRSVP here. \nThe Spotlight Series is a new initiative to showcase recent and past work by emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent locally. Curated by Larry Lee (Molar Productions)\, the project aims to introduce\, promote and celebrate the divergent artistic visions and experiences of being Chinese in America looking at and reflecting upon our relationship to contemporary visual culture to a wider audience within our community and Chicago. \nAbout the artist:\nAs a child of a Chinese immigrant family in North America\, Priscilla was perpetually reminded to be practical about her future. But after over a decade as a health care professional\, she began to feel dissatisfied with the direction of her life. Priscilla turned to creative outlets to find a voice and to explore her identity as a woman of color. She was drawn to glass because it is inherently paradoxical\, constantly in a state of fragility and permanency. She returned to school in 2015 to pursue a Bachelor’s in Craft and Design from Sheridan College and completed her Master of Fine Arts at Illinois State University in 2022. \nPriscilla uses glass and other media to create work as an act of remembrance of the collective intersectional adversity minority women continue to face. Her work highlights the astute way in which our inherent patriarchal society has affected the Asian female position within its structure and how it maintains control through cultural and social expectations and normalized gender roles. Priscilla employs visual language containing artifacts of patriarchy from her childhood that have since become pop culture icons. The symbolism of these images is far removed from their original medium and their patriarchal foundation\, making them easy to manipulate and go undetected while subtly reinforcing social norms and binary systems. Ultimately\, Priscilla views her work as a nostalgic and whimsical\, yet mischievous way of documenting where women\, particularly immigrant women\, are placed within a societally prescribed racial framework. She hopes to initiate discourse about this reality to validate our collective experiences and raise awareness to the continual existence of these issues.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-of-priscilla-kar-yee-lo-aiming-to-please/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:Screening for Vincent Chin 40th Remembrance & Rededication
DESCRIPTION:June 19\, 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the attack on and death of Vincent Chin. OCA Detroit is hosting a 4-day program (06/16 – 06/19) in Detroit that will be live-streamed. On the 19th\, there will be two programs: (1) Community Dialogues: Remembrance & Rededication (10:30 AM – 12:30 PM CT); (2) Interfaith Remembrance Ceremony (2:00 PM – 3:30 PM CT).\n\n\n\n\n\nIn collaboration with the Greater Chicago chapter of OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates\, Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community\, and Chinese American Citizens Alliance\, the Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) will have an in-person program on June 19th from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM CT that includes a brief presentation about the incident\, screening of two short films “Justice for Vincent” and “Vincent Who?” and a Q&A session. The presenter is Mark Chiang who is the Board Director of Chinatown Museum Foundation which governs CAMOC. Please join us at the Museum for this important event.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nDate: Sunday\, June 19\, 2022 Time of in-person screening: 12:30 – 2:00pm CT Full event run including livestream from national event: 10:30 – 3:30pm CT\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation: Chinese American Museum of Chicago 238 W 23rd St.\, 4th floor Chicago\, IL 60616\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n\n\n\n\n\n(Photo of Vincent Chin used on the poster is courtesy of The Estate of Vincent and Lily Chin)
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/screening-for-vincent-chin-40th-remembrance-rededication/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music, Film, and Theater,Talks and Gatherings
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for "Spotlight Series: Nicole Leung"
DESCRIPTION:The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to announce the second exhibition of the Spotlight Series\, featuring artist Nicole Leung. Please join us on Saturday\, May 21\, from 3:00-6:00pm CT for the opening reception. Leung’s site-specific piece “Untitled (Nicole Leung is too American to be Chinese and too Chinese to be American)” will be on view. This exhibition will run from May 21 through July 2.\n\nThe Spotlight Series is a new initiative to showcase recent and past work by emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent locally. Curated by Larry Lee (Molar Productions)\, the project aims to introduce\, promote and celebrate the divergent artistic visions and experiences of being Chinese in America looking at and reflecting upon our relationship to contemporary visual culture to a wider audience within our community and Chicago.\n\nRSVP here\n\nAbout the artist\nNicole Leung is an artist born in Queens\, New York\, currently based in Chicago\, Illinois. A recent graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BFA in Fine Arts\, their work reroutes spatial and interrelational dynamic\, considering the roles and circumstances we have come to believe are inherent to life itself.\n\nNicole explores notions of inclusion and exclusion in their experience of diaspora as a second-generation Chinese-American through the manipulation of the museum space itself\, intentionally obstructing the audience’s ability to enter the gallery space and (experience the text within it) to mimic a sense of displacement in fully identifying with\, and belonging to\, a single culture. This projection of self-assessment is intended to prompt said audience to reconsider their relationship with Chinese heritage in Chicago and throughout the United States\, as one that is too often overlooked\, overgeneralized\, and pushed to the peripherals of our visions. \n\nI bet you can tell just by looking at the back of my head.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/opening-reception-for-spotlight-series-nicole-leung/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions and Gallery Events
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SUMMARY:“Ye-Xian: The Chinese Cinderella” (“C2”)
DESCRIPTION:Fiery Seahorse Productions presents a reading of “Ye-Xian: The Chinese Cinderella” for the young and the young-at-heart..!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nPlease join Fiery Seahorse Productions for an afternoon of theatre at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago (4th Floor Gallery)… https://ccamuseum.org/ \nADA Info: Side Entrance with Ramp \nInfo: ENERI Communications \ninfo@enericom.net \n—- \nAttendance Policies \n(In-person performance status is subject to State\, federal and local including the City of Chicago\, health and safety protocols in position at that date/time. Visitors are required to wear a mask at all times while in the Chinese American Museum of Chicago. \nThere is an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 at any public gathering. Those visiting this event voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19. \n—- \nThe Show! \nQuite possibly the oldest version of Cinderella in the world\, this adaptation of the story of Ye-Xian (which predates the French version by about a thousand years) is about strength and kindness and fun and friendship — and magic! \n  \nMeet Ye-Xian\, daughter of Chief Wu who is made to be a maid-of-all-work for her Stepmother and whose only friend is Jin-Yu\, a talking fish. Now a talking fish is magical enough — but when Jin-Yu goes missing\, Ye-Xian learns from a kindly Old Sage what to do and to provide for herself — especially when she’s prevented from going to the Festival by Stepmother. \nSee what happens when Ye-Xian is recognized at the Festival. Learn what becomes of a lost golden slipper. And see that when Ye-Xian meets the King of Tuo Han for the first\, second and third time that she is loved for Who she is at the end.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/ye-xian-the-chinese-cinderella-c2/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music, Film, and Theater
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SUMMARY:Laura Lynn Hsieh: Mahjong and Dumplings
DESCRIPTION:This spring\, the Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) will launch the Spotlight Series\, a new initiative to showcase recent and past work by emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent locally. Curated by Larry Lee (Molar Productions)\, the project aims to introduce\, promote and celebrate the divergent artistic visions and experiences of being Chinese in America looking at and reflecting upon our relationship to contemporary visual culture to a wider audience within our community and Chicago. \nJoin us on Saturday\, March 19th from 3-6pm CT for the inaugural opening reception of Laura Lynn Hsieh: Mahjong and Dumplings featuring ceramics and video by the artist Laura Lynn Hsieh. This exhibitition will run from March 19 through April 29. \nPlease RSVP here \nAbout the artist\nLaura Lynn Hsieh is a first-generation Chinese American who doesn’t speak Chinese. \nGrowing up in an all-white\, Massachusetts town has influenced her work as much as having parents who fled their homeland during wartime and who expect her to maintain ties to a culture she has never known. As an installation artist\, Hsieh’s creative processes involve writing\, text usage\, sculptural and ceramic components\, as well as video and performance. Her work investigates notions of community\, culture\, family\, and the routine of the everyday. \nShe has worked in the apparel\, computer\, and housewares product industries\, working with Chinese manufacturers\, factories\, and laborers and has taught various high school\, undergraduate\, and graduate-level classes in sculpture\, ceramics\, 2D design\, computer programming\, and non-ferrous metals. Hsieh has a B.A. from Hamilton College\, a degree in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising\, and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/laura-lynn-hsieh-mahjong-and-dumplings/
LOCATION:Chinese American Museum of Chicago\, 238 W. 23rd St\, Chicago\, IL\, 60616\, United States
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SUMMARY:#BreakTheSilence Justice for Asian Women Event
DESCRIPTION:Space is limited to 40\, RSVP here\n\n\nThe Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is honored to be a community partner and to provide the space for the #BreakTheSilence Justice for Asian Women event\, hosted by Chicago Asian Women Empowerment. March 16 marks the first anniversary of the Atlanta spa shooting. Held in partnership with the Asian Justice Movement and other community partners\, this Day of Healing will focus on speaking up and breaking the silence. Sessions include healing meditation led by Elizabeth 방실 Smith\, PsyD\, CCTP-II\, ASDCS; open-mic dialogue; group yoga led by EZ Yogaspace; a self-defense workshop led by 10-year Krav Maga practitioner\, Natalie Chan; and a virtual Korean Drums Performance by the youth of KPAC.\n\n\nCapacity is limited to 40\, so RSVP is required. We request you be sure you are able to attend before RSVPing.\nPlease note the national Asian Justice Movement team plans to live stream parts of each city’s event. Should you be uncomfortable being filmed\, please let us know when you arrive\, and we will try to accommodate your request.\nPlease wear comfortable clothes\, bring a water bottle\, and bring a mat if you would like to participate in the yoga session.\n\n\n\n5:15 – 6:00 Self-defense q&a with Natasha Chan\, 10 year Krav Maga practitioner\n6:00 – 7:00 Meditation session led by Elizabeth 방실 Smith\, PsyD (She/Her/Hers)*\n7:00 – 7:30 Yoga session led by EZ Yogaspace\n7:30 – 7:40 Virtual Korean Drums Performance by KPAC\n7:40 – 7:45 Wrap up\n\n\nDisclaimer*\nThis is a welcoming community space\, it will be conducting in English\, and is not designed as a therapeutic session. All in the AAPI community are welcome to attend until the capacity of the venue space is reached. Reservation required\, as this is an in-person event.
URL:https://www.chicagoculturalalliance.org/event/breakthesilence-justice-for-asian-women-event/
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CATEGORIES:Member Events,Talks and Gatherings
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