Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing
A retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as well as some early and new works on exhibit for the first time. Kina’s art collectively embraces “ikigai” or the Japanese belief of “a sense of life worth living” and reflects her “postcolonial pop aesthetic” as a multiracial Okinawan Jewish artist/educator/scholar living in a South Asian Indian neighborhood in Chicago.
April 2nd - May 30th
Opening Night: Friday, April 2, 2010 6-8pm
Gene Siskel Film Center Gallery
164 North State Street
Chicago, IL 60601
www.faaim.org/visual
www.siskelfilmcenter.org

The show is free and open to the public. The Gene Siskel Film Center is open M-F after 5pm when the box office opens and after 2pm on Sat and Sunday.
For sales, press inquiries or to arrange a private tour during business hours (M-F 10-5), contact the curator Larry Lee at llee2@saic.edu or 773-263-9961

Selected of the Selected
The 12 artists for this exhibition were selected by three person jury, made up this year by Alma Ruiz, Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA; and David Pagel, Associate Professor of Art Theory and History at the Claremont Graduate University and Art Critic for the Los Angeles Times.
May 7-26th, 2010
Opening Reception: May 7, 2010 7:00-9:00pm
Korean Cultural Center
5505 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 900036
Tel: 323-936-7141
www.kccla.org

Laura Kina: Sugar
Set during Hawai’i’s territorial years, 1900-1959, before statehood, Laura Kina’s SUGAR series recall Kaidan ghost stories and features picture brides turned machete carrying sugar cane plantation field laborers. Her paintings focus on Okinawan immigrants to the big island of Hawaii. Drawing on oral history and family photographs from Nisei (2nd generation) and Sansei (3rd generation) Piihonua, HI community members as well as historic images, Kina’s paintings take us into to a beautiful yet grueling world of manual labor, cane field fires and flumes.
September, 2010 (details TBA)
Opening Reception: details TBA
Woman Made Gallery
685. N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
Tel: 312-738-0400
gallery@womanmade.org
www.womanmade.org

FIRST ANNUAL CRITICAL MIXED RACE STUDIES CONFERENCE
Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies
NOVEMBER 5-6, 2010 DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO, IL

Conference Description: Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies, the 1st annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be hosted at DePaul University in Chicago, November 4-7, 2010. The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines nationwide. Recognizing that the diverse disciplines that have nurtured Mixed Race Studies have reached a watershed moment, the 2010 CMRS conference is devoted to the general theme Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed Race Studies.

Critical Mixed Race Studies: CMRS is the transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based on dominant conceptions of race. CMRS emphasizes the mutability of race and the porosity of racial boundaries in order to critique processes of racialization and social stratification based on race. CMRS addresses local and global systemic injustices rooted in systems of racialization.

The proposal deadline was May 7, 2010. We are currently reviewing submissions and we will finalize our selctions by July 1, 2010
All queries should be directed to the conference chairs:
cmrs@depaul.edu
773-325-4048
las.depaul.edu/cmrs

The 2010 CMRS is organized by Camilla Fojas and Laura Kina (DePaul University) and Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State University) and is sponsored by DePaul University Asian American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the MAViN Foundation.

Laura Kina: Devon Avenue Sampler
May, 2011 (details TBA)
Opening Reception: details TBA
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts
2043 N. Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127-4913
Tel: 305-576-1804
info@dlfinearts.com
www.dlfinearts.com