In September 2019 I will be in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a multidisciplinary international art center in the Marin Headlands. As a recipient of a McLaughlin Foundation Award for Social Practice, I will receive a fully sponsored residency and the opportunity to work on new projects and share in a peer-to-peer creative exchange with Headlands’ dynamic artist community. http://www.headlands.org/artist/tomie-arai/

In September 2019 I will be in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, a multidisciplinary international art center in the Marin Headlands. As a recipient of a McLaughlin Foundation Award for Social Practice, I will receive a fully sponsored residency and the opportunity to work on new projects and share in a peer-to-peer creative exchange with Headlands’ dynamic artist community. http://www.headlands.org/artist/tomie-arai/

https://vimeo.com/256650984

https://vimeo.com/256650984

On April 9, 2018 the Laundromat Project and the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture sponsored, 'Reimagining Community:Finding Sanctuary in Public Spaces' a conversation with Tomie Arai, Sydnie Mosley, Justin Garrett Moore. To view the video: https://www.facebook.com/SchomburgCenter/videos/10155292270455079/

On April 9, 2018 the Laundromat Project and the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture sponsored, 'Reimagining Community:Finding Sanctuary in Public Spaces' a conversation with Tomie Arai, Sydnie Mosley, Justin Garrett Moore. To view the video:

https://www.facebook.com/SchomburgCenter/videos/10155292270455079/

The Chinatown Art Brigade received a production grant from the Magnum Foundation for the AR Mapping Project, Here to Stay: Placekeeping in NY Chinatown

The Chinatown Art Brigade received a production grant from the Magnum Foundation for the AR Mapping Project, Here to Stay: Placekeeping in NY Chinatown

CAB co-founders, Betty Yu, ManSee Kong and Tomie Arai were recently invited to speak at the Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland. After our talk,Weston Teruya conducted an interview for his podcast,'unmaking' through Art Practical, that focuses on the work of artists of color. To hear the (un)making podcast: https://soundcloud.com/artpractical/sets/un-making-podcast

CAB co-founders, Betty Yu, ManSee Kong and Tomie Arai were recently invited to speak at the Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland. After our talk,Weston Teruya conducted an interview for his podcast,'unmaking' through Art Practical, that focuses on the work of artists of color. To hear the (un)making podcast:

https://soundcloud.com/artpractical/sets/un-making-podcast

The Chinatown Art Brigade has been awarded a 2018 Create Change Artist Residency for the Here to Stay/Housing for the People Mapping Project.

The Chinatown Art Brigade has been awarded a 2018 Create Change Artist Residency for the Here to Stay/Housing for the People Mapping Project.

The Chinatown Art Brigade is pleased to be a recipient of a 2018 LMCC Creative Engagement Grant.

The Chinatown Art Brigade is pleased to be a recipient of a 2018 LMCC Creative Engagement Grant.

CAB members, Betty Yu, ManSee Kong and I were invited to speak at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation's 2018 Symposium: Exploring Public Art Practices , held at the Oakland Museum on March 10, 2018. Our talk and the proceedings from the symposium can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/album/5163880

CAB members, Betty Yu, ManSee Kong and I were invited to speak at the Kenneth Rainin Foundation's 2018 Symposium: Exploring Public Art Practices, held at the Oakland Museum on March 10, 2018. Our talk and the proceedings from the symposium can be viewed here:

https://vimeo.com/album/5163880

Sitting beside May Chen and Bhairavi Desai --2 of my movement heroes--and Minju Bae, organizer of the panel, "Labor of Love" held at the Tamiment Library on February 13, 2018 and co-sponsored by the A/P/A Institute, the NY Labor History Assn. & LaborArts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HE8OZqWSPw

Sitting beside May Chen and Bhairavi Desai --2 of my movement heroes--and Minju Bae, organizer of the panel, "Labor of Love" held at the Tamiment Library on February 13, 2018 and co-sponsored by the A/P/A Institute, the NY Labor History Assn. & LaborArts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HE8OZqWSPw

This winter, I will be participating in Wavehill's Winter Workspace 2018 Program with artists Jean Shin, Camille Hoffman, Pedro Ramirez, Jessica Roher and Austin Thomas. Excited to be a new member of the WaveHill artist community!

This winter, I will be participating in Wavehill's Winter Workspace 2018 Program with artists Jean Shin, Camille Hoffman, Pedro Ramirez, Jessica Roher and Austin Thomas. Excited to be a new member of the WaveHill artist community!

Fooling around with DJ Rekha, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang and Regie Cabico at the #APATwenty:Artist-in-Residence Anniversary Reunion--celebrating 20 years since I was the first Artist-in-Residence at the A/P/A Institute at NYU.

Working collectively, as the Chinatown Art Brigade, Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong and Betty Yu are recipients of a 2016 A Blade of Grass Fellowship for their project, "Here to Stay", a collaboration with CAAAV's Chinatown Tenant's Union.

Thank you to the Women's Caucus for Art for honoring me with a 2016 National Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual conference in Washington DC. on February 9, 2016. Congratulations to my fellow honorees; Helene Aylon, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Juana Guzman. L to R: Joyce Kozloff, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Maria de los Angeles, Juana Guzman, Helene Aylon, Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Tomie Arai, Margo Machida.

Thank you to the Women's Caucus for Art for honoring me with a 2016 National Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual conference in Washington DC. on February 9, 2016. Congratulations to my fellow honorees; Helene Aylon, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Juana Guzman.

L to R: Joyce Kozloff, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Maria de los Angeles, Juana Guzman, Helene Aylon, Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Tomie Arai, Margo Machida.

The Portrait of New York Chinatown project was the recent recipient of a 2013 Asian Women's Giving Circle Women Arts and Activism grant and a grant from the Puffin Foundation.

Click here to view the video "You Know...The Struggle" about murals on the Lower East Side: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjx_nhkJfM

Click here to view the video "You Know...The Struggle" about murals on the Lower East Side: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjx_nhkJfM

Here to Stay Philadelphia 2018

June 13, 2018

On May 4, 2018, the Chinatown Art Brigade collaborated with Asian American United’s Chinatown Youth Organizing Project (CYOP) to stage a projection in Philadelphia Chinatown that amplified resistance to ICE and Trump’s unjust immigration policies. Working in close partnership with The Illuminator, the projection included speeches, music and know your rights information for undocumented immigrants.

Join us on July 6th for our second Here to Stay projection event. The Chinatown Art Brigade will be collaborating with Asian Americans United and Viet Lead who will be hosting the National Grassroots Asians Risings’ Youth Summit in Philadelphia this summer. With support from the Asian Arts Initiative, The Chinatown Art Brigade and The Illuminator will be projecting a Know Your Rights PSA as well as messages from organizations across the country who demand an end to the increased threats of ICE deportations and attacks on our immigrant communities. CAB is will be celebrating stories of resistance and resilience, putting a human face on immigration and generating a nation-wide response to this urgent issue.

Chinese Youth Organizing Project and Chinatown Art Brigade members

Chinese Youth Organizing Project and Chinatown Art Brigade members

Source: https://www.asianarts25.org/