AAWAA Bibliography

AAWAA Members

Books featuring the art, experiences or interviews with
Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) members

This includes videos and other references to current and past AAWAA members.

Reviews by Amazon unless otherwise noted.

For books by Asian American women who are not members of AAWAA, please see Asian American Women

By artists/writers:

The Costume-Maker's Art : Cloaks of Fantasy, Masks of Revelation by Thom Boswell (Editor). Lark Books, 1992.

Kim Anno

Buettner, Stuart. The Spiritual in Contemporary Art. 1996.

Anno, Kim. "Creativity, Context, and Competition.", Worlds In Collision: Dialogues on Multicultural Art Issues by Carlos Villa, ed. Paperback (March 1995) International Scholars Publications.

Yesterday and Tomorrow : California Women Artists by Sylvia Moore (Editor). Paperback (October 1989) Midmarch Art Press.

Art on the Line by Jack Hirschman. Paperback - 380 pages. Curbstone Press; (May 1, 2001). Anno is mentioned in Miranda Bergman's article, "Mural, Mural on the Wall".

Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures: Volume 1 (Special - Reference) by Bonnie Zimmerman. Library Binding - 700 pages. Garland Publishing; (December 1, 1999). Listed on page 66 among artists of the 1990s.

Kavita Bali

Learn More Now : 10 Simple Steps to Learning Better, Smarter, and Faster by Marcia L. Conner, illustrations by Kavita Bali. Paperback - 256 pages. John Wiley & Sons; (February 6, 2004).

Bernice Bing

Asian Traditions/Modern Expression: Asian American Artists and Abstraction 1940-1970 by Weschler, Jeffery, ed. Hardcover - 224 pages (April 1997) Harry N Abram. "This first survey of Asian American modernists active during the era of Abstract Expressionism reevaluates an entire generation of neglected but important artists. The works of 58 artists, including Isamu Noguchi and Kenzo Okada, reveal the strong tradition in Asian art of abstract techniques and show how East Asian art prefigured or paralleled "modern" stylistic developments in the West. 194 illustrations, 84 in color."

Krantz, Les. The California Art Review: An Illustrated Survey of the State's Museums, Galleries and Leading Artists. Chicago: American References, Inc., 1989. pp. 251, 169 (photos)

Art in the San Francisco Bay Area by Albright, Thomas. Paperback - 349 pages (June 1985) Univ California Press.

Bing, Bernice. Artist's Statement, Completing the Circle: Six Artists. Exhibition Catalogue. Asian Heritage Council. Triton Museum of Art, San Jose. 1990.

Roth, Moira and Diane Tani. Bernice Bing: Catalogue. Visibility Press, 1991.

Tsutakawa, Mayumi. "The Asian American West Coast, 1945 to 1965: A Renaissance in Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textile and Photography," With New Eyes: Toward and Asian American Art History on the West. exhibition catalogue, 1995.

The Art of Joan Brown by Karen Tsujimoto. Paperback - 320 pages University of California Press; (October 1, 1998). Bernice Bing was a friend of Joan Brown and is mentioned at least a couple times in this book.

Lenore Chinn

Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists by Cherry Smyth. Hardcover - 154 pages (September 1996) Unknown. "DAMN FINE ART BY NEW LESBIAN ARTISTS Cherry Smyth This groundbreaking book is the first ever to focus exclusively on lesbian art and artists. Fully illustrated with over 50 black and white and color pictures, it covers a range of artistic disciplines from sculpture and fine art to commix and SM/body decoration. The book is a wide-ranging study of recent work by lesbian-identified artists based in many countries."

Lesbian Art in America : A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond. Hardcover - 208 pages (August 2000) Rizzoli International Publications. "DAMN FINE ART BY NEW LESBIAN ARTISTS Cherry Smyth "It is no surprise to see a photograph by Catherine Opie on the front of this handsome and groundbreaking volume on lesbian art. Opie is now represented in most of the best public collections in America, and her inclusion, along with the current rise of Nicole Eisenman, suggests that the market for specifically lesbian imagery (as opposed to erotica, which has always had an audience) has finally widened to include the great art institutions that still set the canon for contemporary art. Although the text of Harmony Hammond's wonderfully rich book is a little too dense for casual consumption, the history she offers--especially of the middle decade represented here, the 1980s, with its porn wars and the emergence of both postmodernism and postfeminism alongside a remarkable boom in the art market--can be found nowhere else, and certainly not in so graceful a form, lavishly illustrated and perceptively annotated. --Regina Marler "

Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts by James L. Saslow. Paperback - 352 pages (Penguin Books; (February 1, 2001). Lenore is mentioned when discussing a 1998 SF exhibition of self-portraits.

Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures: Volume 1 (Special - Reference) by Bonnie Zimmerman. Library Binding - 700 pages. Garland Publishing; (December 1, 1999). Listed on page 65 among artists of the 1980s.

Real-World Readings in Art Education: Things Your Professor Never Told You Dennis Fehr, Kris King, Karen Keifer-Boyd, Paperback - 250 pages. Garland Publishing (December 1, 1999). Lenore is quoted on pages 118-119.

Forbidden Subjects : Self-Portraits by Lesbian Artists (Gallerie, Women Artists' Monographs, No 10) by Caffyn Kelley (Editor). Gallerie Publications, North Vancouver, Canada, 1992. Out of print.

Lesbian Women by Del Martin, Phyllis Lyon. Twentieth Anniversary Edition, San Francisco, CA 1991. Out of print.

Video

• Persona Video, Cut Sleeve: Documentary, N.A. Diamon, Producer/Director, San Francisco, CA, 1992.
• Persona Video, Lenore Chinn, Painter, Documentary Profile, N.A. Diamon, Producer/Director, San Francisco, CA, 1991.

Journal articles: For a comprehensive bibliography including print journal and newspaper articles, please go to Lenore Chinn's bibliography.

Wei Ming Dariotis

The Multiracial Experience : Racial Borders as the New Frontier Maria P P Root, ed. Paperback - 509 pages, SAGE Publications (November 21, 1995). Wei Ming is mentioned in the article "Race as Process: Reassessing the "What are You?" Encounters of Biracial Individuals" by Teresa Kay Williams.

Hisako Hibi

Peaceful Painter: Memoirs Of An Issei Woman Artist by Hisako Hibi, Ibuki H. Lee. Paperback. Heyday Books; (September 1, 2004)

The View From Within: Japanese American Art from the Interment Camps 1942-1945 by Yasuo Sakata. Paperback - 100 pages. Japanese American National Museum; (May 1, 1992). Features a few paintings by Hisako Hibi.

Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 by Patricia Trenton, Sandra D'Emilio, et al. Paperback - 320 pages. University of California Press; (October 1, 1995).

Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps by Deborah Gesensway, Mindy Roseman. Paperback. Cornell University Press (September 1, 1988).

War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century by Jay Winter, ed. Paperback - 270 pages. Cambridge University Press (August 27, 2000). The "social agency" approach highlights the behavior of small groups and individuals who do the work of remembrance. Hisako Hibi is mentioned among the incarcerated artists of WWII.

Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz s by Sandra C. Taylor. Paperback - 343 pages. University of California Press; (November 1, 1993). Taylor explores the impact on the issei and nissei of the San Francisco Bay area of their World War II journey from their homes to their assembly at Tanforan Racetrack and then their internment at the Topaz, Utah, camp.

Judy Hiramoto

The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly. Hardcover: Calyx Books; (November 1, 1989). Several of Hiramoto's artwork is in this anthology.

Nancy Hom

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray , Jenice View, Eds.. Paperback: 576 pages. Teaching for Change and PRRAC; (March 31, 2004). Nancy Hom wrote the article, "Drinking Tea with both Hands", see page 470-75.

Just Like Me: Stories and Self-Portraits by Fourteen Artists by Harriet Rohmer, et al. Reading level: Kindergarten to Grade 6. Hardcover - 31 pages. Children's Book Press (September 1, 1997). Representing the Hispanic, Black, Asian-American, Jewish, and Native American experiences, 14 artists who illustrate books for children discuss important moments in their lives and how they became artists.

Honoring Our Ancestors: Stories and Pictures by Fourteen Artists by Harriet Rohmer, et al. Reading level: 9-12. Hardcover - 31 pages. Children's Book Press (April 1, 1999). A companion to publisher Rohmer's Just Like Me, this one collects 14 artists' tributes to parents, grandparents and spiritual ancestors.

Asian American Dreams : The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia. Paperback: 368 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; (May 15, 2001). Nancy's poster art is mentioned.

Left of the Color Line: Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States by Bill Mullen, et al. Paperback - 352 pages. University of North Carolina Press; (September 1, 2003). Nancy is mentioned among other visual artists in the Fred Ho chapter.

Legacy to Liberation: Politics & Culture of Revolutionary Asian/Pacific America by Fred Ho, Ed. Paperback - 417 pages. AK PRESS (March 1, 2000). Nancy is mentioned among Unbound Feet, a collective of six Chinese American performance poets in "Three Decades of Class Struggle on Campus" by Merle Woo and also in "The Art and Politics of Asian American Women" by Nellie Wong.

Travellers' Tales: Narratives of Home and Displacement by George Robertson, Melinda Mash, Lisa Tickner, Jon Bird, Barry Curtis. Paperback - 272 pages. Routledge (October 1, 1994). An excerpt of one of Nancy's poem appears on page 17.

From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Book by Kathleen T. Horning. Paperback: 240 pages. HarperTrophy; 1st edition (March 31, 1997) . Nancy's children's illustrations is mentioned.

Books she illustrated

Nine-In-One Grr! Grr!: A Folktale from the Hmong People of Laos by Blia Xiong, Nancy Hom (Illustrator), Cathy Spagnoli (Contributor). Reading level: Ages 4-8. Paperback Reprint edition (April 1993) Childrens Book Press. Also in hardcover. "When the great god Shao promises Tiger nine cubs each year, Bird comes up with a clever trick to prevent the land from being overrun by tigers. "

Judge Rabbit and the Tree Spirit : A Folktale from Cambodia/Bilingual in English and Khmer by Cathy Spagnoli, Nancy Hom (Illustrator), Lina Mao Wall, Lina Mao Wall (Designer). Reading level: Ages 4-8. School & Library Binding Eng/Khmer edition (June 1991) Childrens Book Press."

The Little Weaver of Thai-Yen Village/Co Be Th-Det Lang Thai-Yen by Khanh Tuyet Tran, Nancy Hom (Illustrator). Reading level: Ages 4-8. School & Library Binding - 24 pages Bilingual edition (February 1987) Childrens Book Press. "A young Vietnamese girl maintains her own cultural identity while struggling to adjust to the United States."

The Best of the Bay Area for You and Your Child : Where to Shop, What to Do, Where to Find Help by Susan D. Waldman, Nancy Hom (Illustrator). Out of print.

Books she designed

• Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado by Consuelo Mendez (Illustrator), Gloria E. Anzaldua, Nancy Hom (Designer), Lee Fatherree (Photographer). Reading level: Ages 4-8.
• La mujer que brillaba aún más que el sol / The Woman Who Outshone the Sun by Rosalma Zubizarreta, Harriet Rohmer, David Schecter. Reading level: Ages 4-8.
• China's Bravest Girl: The Legend of Hua Mu Lan by Charlie Chin, Tomie Arai. Reading level: Ages 9-12.
• The Harvest Birds/Los Pajarros De LA Cosecha by Charlie Chin, Tomie Arai. Reading level: Ages 4-8.

The Asian Pacific American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts by George Leonard. Library Binding: 690 pages. Garland Publishing; (October 1, 1998). One chapter is "Asian American Visual Artists: An Interview with Betty Kano", by Timothy Drescher.

The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, Margarita Donnelly. Hardcover: Calyx Books; (November 1, 1989). Several of Betty's artwork is in this anthology.

Nancy Kato

The Green Mile starring Tom Hanks. Nancy was the cg animator for Rhythm & Hues.

The Mouse Hunt starring Nathan Lane. Nancy was the 3d lead animator.

Toy Story II starring Tom Hanks. Nancy was one of the animators.

Hubert's Brain, 2001, a short, animation. Nancy was one of the animators.

Jenny Lin

The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Jenny Lin, Timothy Jones. Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) was a classical composer in the early 1900s who later concentrated on folk music studies. Jenny Lin plays her compositions on the piano. The last composition is a story/music combo which is narrated by Timothy Jones. Seeger's compositions are concise but very avant garde when she wrote them. Classical music. (Audio CD).

Chinoiserie by Adams, Arensky, Busoni, Chasins, Grainger, Tcherepnin, Jenny Lin. Jenny Lin plays non-Chinese composers compositions which were influenced by Chinese music. Classical music. (Audio CD).

Valerie Matsumoto

Over the Edge : Remapping the American West by Valerie J. Matsumoto(Editor), Blake Allmendinger(Editor). Paperback - 397 pages (January 1999) University of California Press. Featuring the latest work by some of the best new writers both inside and outside academia, the original essays in Over the Edge confront the traditional field of western American studies with a series of radical, speculative, and sometimes outrageous challenges. The collection reads the West through Ben-Hur and the films of Mae West; revises the western American literary canon to include the works of African American and Mexican American writers; examines the implications of miscegenation law and American Indian blood quantum requirements; and brings attention to the historical participation of Mexican and Japanese American women, Native American slaves, and Alaskan cannery workers in community life.

Farming the Home Place : A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 by Valerie J. Matsumoto. Paperback -- 280 pages (February 1994). Cornell University Press.

Uncommon Common Women : Ordinary Lives of the West by Anne M. Butler, Ona Siporin(Contributor) Paperback - 138 pages (September 1996) Utah State University Press. Valerie J. Matsumoto contributed. Uncommon Common Women is a multi-genre collection that will broaden and enrich the general reader's understanding of women's lives during the western emigration era. Uncommon Common Women is not about the school marm or the dance hall girl, rather it focuses on the forgotten roles and gritty realities of women's lives during an often brutally difficult time. Featured are nonwhite pioneers, indigenous women, criminals, nuns, educators, and suffragists. By combining historical narrative with storytelling and photographs, Uncommon Common Women takes the reader on a rich and rewarding historical journey of many images and many voices.

The Forbidden Stitch : An Asian American Women's Anthology by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa (Editor), Donnellym Margarita (Editor), Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (Editor), Margarita Donnelly (Editor). Paperback - 138 pages (December 1991) Utah State University Press. Valerie J. Matsumoto wrote a short story. The Forbidden Stitch received the American Book Award and includes the work of Chitra Divakaruni, Diana Chang, Jessica Hagedorn, Marilyn Chin, Nelllie Wong, Mitsuye Yamada, among the 80 contributors. It also includes the only extensive bibliography of Asian American women's work. Cited by reviewers across the country. "...a breakthrough book...provides a good introduction to the mysteries surrounding Asian women.

Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork by Diane L. Wolf (Editor). Paperback - 226 pages (February 1996) Westview Press. Valerie J. Matsumoto is a contributor. From Book News, Inc.: "Eleven essays by economists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and others provide an interdisciplinary exploration of the kinds of dilemmas feminist researchers have confronted in the field. Through experientially-based writings, the authors unravel the contradictions stemming from their contradictory positions as "insiders," "outsiders," or both, and from attempts to equalize the research relationship."

Dawn E. Nakanishi

Creative Spirituality: The Way of the Artist
by Robert Wuthnow. Paperback - 319 pages. University of California Press; (July 7, 2003). Dawn and her work appears several times in this book.

Fundamentals of Metalsmithing
by Tim McCreight. Hardcover - 144 pages (September 1997) Cape Elizabeth: Brynmorgen Press, 1997.

See her bibiliography at the Women Artists of the American West site.

Moira Roth

Women Artists of Color Phoebe Farris, ed. Hardcover - 520 pages. Greenwood Press; (May 30, 1999). Moira wrote the Afterword, "Pieces of a Puzzle."

Dinh Q. Lê: From Vietnam to Hollywood by Dinh Q. Le, Christopher Miles, Moira Roth. Hardcover - 48 pages. Publisher: Marquand Books; (October 2003). "Haunting and provocative, Dinh Q. Lê's billboard-scale works interweave stills from Vietnamese films with war pictures, news photographs and archival documentary images"

Difference / Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Moira Roth. Paperback - 184 pages. G+B Arts International; (October 1998). "This book brings together for the first time Moira Roth's influential articles, lectures and interviews on the two men who embodied the very spirit of the avant-garde: Marcel Duchamp and John Cage.

Rachel Rosenthal (Paj Books - Art+ Performance Series) by Moira Roth . Paperback - 223 pages. Johns Hopkins University Press; (November 1, 1997)

Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art, 1970-1980 by Moira Roth. Paperback - 165 pages. Astro Artz; (February 1, 1984).

Soumya Sitaraman

Chachaji's Cup by Uma Krishaswami, illustrated by Soumya Sitaraman. Ages 4-8. Hardcover - 31 pages (March 2003) Children's Book Press.

Valerie Soe

Mixed Blessings: New Art in Multicultural America by Lucy Lippard. Paperback - 288 pages (April 2000) New Press.

Soe, Valerie. "Turning the Tables: Three Asian American Artists." Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies. Diane Neumaier, ed. Paperback - 336 pages (August 1998) Temple University Press.

Reynaud, Berenice. "New Visions/New Chinas.", Resolutions Contemporary Video Practices by Michael Renov and Erika Suderberg, eds. Paperback (December 1995) University of Minnesota Press.

Soe, Valerie. "A Critical Agenda for the l990s: Hopes and Fears.", Worlds In Collision: Dialogues on Multicultural Art Issues by Carlos Villa, ed. Paperback (March 1995) International Scholars Publications.

Fung, Richard. "Seeing Yellow: Asian Film Culture", Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media by Angie Valdivia, ed. Paperback - 394 pages (November 1993) South End Press.

Heung, Marina. "Re-presenting Ourselves: Asian American Women." The State Of Asian America: Activism in the 90's by Karen Aguilar-San Juan, ed. Paperback (November 1995) Sage Publications. From Books News: "Illustrates how issues of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, global origin, and ethnicity affect all aspects of all forms of communication media. The 13 essays consider theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and a variety of media. Among the topics are daily life of a graduate student, the Mohawk/Canadian conflict of 1990, women's features."

Soe, Valerie. "Fighting Fire With Fire: Detournement and Video Art." Countervisions : Asian-American Film Criticism by Sandra Liu and Darrell Hanamoto, eds. Paperback - 288 pages (September 2000) Temple Univ Press.

The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art by Lucy Lippard. Paperback (March 1995) The New Press.

Soe, Valerie. "On Experimental Video." Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific Media Arts 1970-1990. Russell Leong, ed. Paperback (January 1992) University of California Asian American Studies Center.

Indigo Som

SURFACE TENSION : Love, Sex, and Politics Between Lesbians and Straight Women by Meg Daly. Paperback - 256 pages. Touchstone; (January 18, 1996). Indigo Som's essay "The Queer Kitchen" is is quoted or referenced several times. Making Memory Books by Hand: 22 Projects to Make, Keep, and Share by Kristina Feliciano . Paperback - 127 pages. Rockport Publishers; (May 1, 1999). Indigo's book Howards & Hoovers: A Sample Book of Chinese-American Male Names is referenced.

Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures: Volume 1 (Special - Reference) by Bonnie Zimmerman. Library Binding - 700 pages. Garland Publishing; (December 1, 1999). Listed on page 73 among writers appearing after the 1970s.

Diane Tani

Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies. Diane Neumaier, ed. Paperback - 336 pages (August 1998) Temple University Press.

See her bibiliography at the Women Artists of the American West site.

Katherine Westerhout

Stirring the Waters: Writing to Find Your Spirit by Janell Moon. Paperback - 256 pages. Charles Tuttle Co.; (May 1, 2001). Mentions Katherine as using photography to explore the world of spirt and light.

Flo Oy Wong

Creative Spirituality: The Way of the Artist
by Robert Wuthnow. Paperback - 319 pages. University of California Press; (July 7, 2003) . Flo and her work appear several times in this book.

Legacy to Liberation: Politics & Culture of Revolutionary Asian/Pacific America by Fred Ho, Ed. Paperback - 417 pages. AK PRESS (March 1, 2000). Flo's piece "Lucky Daughter: 1996 Suitcase" is mentioned on page 20.

Wong, Flo Oy. "There is More to Being Chinese in America than Chop Suey: Narrative Drawing as Criticism in Oakland Chinatown."Pluralistic Approaches to Art Criticism. Kristin G. Congdon and Doug Blady, eds. Hardcover (May 1992) Popular Press.

See her bibiliography at the Women Artists of the American West site.. Journal articles listed here are not also listed there.

Wendy Yoshimura

The Forbidden Stitch : An Asian American Women's Anthology by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa (Editor), Donnellym Margarita (Editor), Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (Editor), Margarita Donnelly (Editor). Paperback - 138 pages (December 1991) Utah State University Press. Wendy's artwork appears in this anthology.

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