AAWAA PROGRAMS

Programs

Adopt-a-Program Click to support the program of your choice

AAWAA invites you to adopt one of our growing programs. Become a sponsor of …

• A Place of Her Own
• Emerging Curators Program
• Archives
• LP Series

You will stay updated on your program’s milestones, during the year, invited to “behind the scenes” activities such as a special donor reception with your program artists, an artist studio tour and many more supporter only enriching opportunities.

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Every donation matters. Thank you for your continued support.

Beverly, Cristal, Cynthia, Pallavi, and Shari
AAWAA Board of Directors

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Programs

Archives: Creating opportunities to build an archive of works by Asian American women the arts through documentation of oral histories, digital images, videos, electronic records and scholarly research thereby providing online resource for art historians, curators, artists and the publications.

AAWAA plans to make information about and samples of works by Asian American women in the arts available online to anyone internationally.

 

A PLACE OF HER OWN - www.aplaceofherown.org

A multi-disciplinary arts program that asks, “If you had a place of your own, what would it be?” Asian American women artists answer with the use of various media, including visual art, performance, and literary art. Women are asked to sweep away all extraneous rules and outside expectations to discover what has significant meaning to them alone. As it traverses different avenues, the project will become a means to cultivate dialogue that raise consciousness about women’s issues and builds stronger interactive communities. 

A PLACE OF HER OWN Social Service Initiative. AAWAA is currently conducting artistic workshops with social service providers to develop A PLACE OF HER OWN Social Services Initiative to include creative healing tools for women and girls.    

AAWAA is a proud partner in the WomenArts Harmony Project, which has been generously funded by the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Special thanks to Martha Richards at WomenArts.org, California Arts Council and San Francisco Arts Commission.

 

Emerging Curators Program: An opportunity for new curators to develop their vision and focus  on Asian American Art.  AAWAA assists them curating and documenting exhibitions at small venues, growing the dialog between emerging curators and Asian American women artists.

 

Literary & Performing Arts Project: AAWAA will present an innovative series of literary/performance events hosted by guest curators. The events will be filmed and made available to the public online as part of our Archives Project, a portal to Asian American women in the arts. 

 

Other Activities

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Art Salons:

Bi-monthly get-togethers for members and prospective members to share their art, writing and perspectives, in a safe and supportive environment. They can ask for feedback on a proposal or share best practices. Open to all Asian American women artists working in any media (including literary and performance), arts supporters and those thinking about art.

Purpose: to build community, allowing members to get to know each other on a deeper level, providing each other information, feedback and inspiration.

Exhibitions - AAWAA uses this platform to both present the works of Asian American women in the arts and to document and archive information and images from the exhibitions. Innovative concepts, interactive art works and educational programming invite the community to learn on a deeper level.

Professional Workshops: AAWAA provides workshops that address professional development, artistic practice, public relations and technology. These are open to the public, geared toward the arts, individuals and organizations, but are often suitable for non-profits and arts advocates.

Speakers' Bureau: AAWAA works with an ongoing pool of speakers. These speakers are artists, scholars and others who provide professional presentations about AAWAA, Asian American women in the arts and themselves and their work. AAWAA's speakers' bureau is available for lectures in the classroom, during functions and events. 

CAA Affiliates: AAWAA presents scholarly panels during the College Art Association Annual Conferences to increase the national discussion on Asian American women in the arts.

Cheers to Muses- outreach, presentations and a pioneering anthology featuring visual art, fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction by Asian American women who challenge contemporary and historical assumptions about what it means to create Asian American art. What distinguishes Cheers to Muses from many other anthologies are the moving dedications, written by our contributors, to other Asian American women whose lives or works have influenced and inspired their own. They serve as a testament to the fact that these contemporary artists and writers are part of a continuum of the Asian American woman’s struggle for independence and creative freedom.

Contribute Your Skills

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AAWAA seeks volunteers of all kinds. You don't have to have any art experience. We also need donations of space, funding and beautiful found objects info@aawaa.net