THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF PAINTING & PRINTED MEDIA: Artist lecture & creative lab
THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF PAINTING & PRINTED MEDIA:
Artist lecture & creative lab
We ensure our histories are not lost by documenting them and Lenore Chinn has been documenting the broader LGBTQ community in San Francisco for over 30 years. Her larger photo-realist paintings began as community portraits, of her friends really, and are now a beautiful and sometimes haunting history. Lenore wraps up this series of workshop with a special artist lecture. She’ll discuss some of the highlights of her career as a painter and social justice founder of some of the most influential LGBTQ and Asian arts organizations in the Bay Area including the Lesbians in the Visual Arts, Queer Cultural Center, and Asian American Women Artists.
We’ll include an open Q&A section to open up the floor for conversation. Also view printed works inspired by the stories from the Dragonfruit Project and see works from other LGBTQ AAPI artists. The lecture will immediately be followed by an open creative lab where we’ll provide materials to create works around the LGBTQ AAPI communities and stories. You’ll see art that’s already been created and share space with other working artists. This is a great opportunity to share creative space with other working LGBTQ AAPI artists.
PROVIDED: A variety of creative materials will be provided to create works in class paper, pens, scanner, printer, glue, tape, scissors, etc.
INSTRUCTORS
Lenore Chinn: Artist
Mia Nakano: Director, Visibility Project
Sunday, August 7th
10am – 2pm
LOCATION
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Auditorium
388 9th St. #290
Oakland, CA 94607
ABOUT THE RESLIENCE ARCHIVES
LGBTQ Asian Pacific Americans have made historic contributions to art, labor rights, and immigration reform, but their stories are truncated footnotes, if mentioned at all. APAs are the fastest growing population in the U.S., but have one of the lowest amounts of visibility in media.
With little to no LGBTQ AAPI representation in popular culture or history, it is often up to these individuals to seek out their own community in order to hear stories and experiences. This process can be a huge struggle, resulting in conflicts of identity, religion, familial obligation, and self worth. LGBTQ AAPIs face intense discrimination and racism from mainstream LGBTQ communities, and must often choose to be LGBTQ or Asian.
The Resilience Archives will exist online as community created history through photographs, slideshows, audio clips, multi-media, and much more. The first iteration of the project starts in the SF Bay Area with a series of four free workshops that teach practical, technical, and artistic skills in different mediums: archiving, storytelling, print media, performance arts, and film practices.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
Workshops are open to LGBTQ AAPI community, family, and allies. Due to limited space in some workshops, priority will be given to LGBTQ AAPI community members. Please view individual workshop pages to see if there are any restrictions.
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
Resilience Archives is a collaboration between API Equality – Northern California (APIENC) and Visibility Project Director, artist Mia Nakano. APIENC and the Visibility Project are a part of the Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality Network (AACRE).
This collaboration was made possible by the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Artists and Communities in Partnership Grant.
