Flo Oy Wong's 30th Anniversary Keynote Speech

Video shot and edited by Diana Chen.

Missed AAWAA’s 30th Anniversary celebration? We got your back. Listen to the words of Flo Oy Wong in her Keynote speech at our 30th Anniversary Symposium, PEARLS IN THE FIRE.

To be an AAWAA Member is to be a PEARL IN THE FIRE…Continue to make art passionately. Believe in AAWAA. Advance the visibility and recognition of Asian Americans in the arts…May AAWAA sit firmly at the table of contemporary American art and culture.

Listen as Wong goes into the roots and struggle of co-founding AAWAA with Betty Kano and the support of Moira Roth and Bernice Bing. In their effort to create space for women artists of color at the National Women’s Caucus for Art (NWCA) in 1989, they ran into “art-world reality” and gathered the slides for a proposal that would eventually become available to art historians nation-wide.

Learn more about PEARLS IN THE FIRE and all of our #AAWAA30 campaign donors here.

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