• Art Asia Pacific: 113

    Art Asia Pacific: 113

    Laura Kina’s Dispatch on Chicago’s art scene is in the May/June 2019 print issue of ArtAsiaPacific with shout outs to Debra Yepa-Pappan, Janet Dees, 3Arts, Threewalls, Chicago Artists Coalition, Rebirth Garments, Love & Struggle Photos, Aram Han Sifuentes, Huong Ngo, DePaul Art Museum, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, 4th Ward Project Space, Alejandro T. Acierto, boundary, Larry…

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  • Federal Project No. 2 – Re-Examining America

    Federal Project No. 2 – Re-Examining America

    Laura Kina was one of fifty American artists invited by Topic magazine to make new work for the Federal Project No. 2- Re-examining America, which asked artists to look back at projects created during the New Deal, and make work that reflects the United States. Kina selected Yasuo Kuniyoshi for inspiration and created 6 new…

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  • Visible at the Gene Siskel Center

    Visible at the Gene Siskel Center

    Laura Kina’s art is part of “VISIBLE” March 28-June 9, 2019, curated by YoungSun Choi at the Gene Siskel Film Center for the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) in conjunction with the 24th annual Asian American Showcase.

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  • Announcing 2019 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-In-Residence

    Announcing 2019 Joan Mitchell Center Artist-In-Residence

    Laura Kina has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans for one month in 2019.

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  • Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos

    Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos

    Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos (Bess Press, 2019) is a trilingual feminist fairy tale set in Hawai‘i and Okinawa that illuminates an ancient tradition and pushes back against white normative standards of beauty. Okinawan Princess is written in Hawai‘i Creole by Lee A. Tonouchi and translated by Dr. Masashi Sakihara into a mix…

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  • Virtual Asian American Art Museum

    Virtual Asian American Art Museum

    The Virtual Asian American Art Museum (VAAAM), a multi-year, inter-institutional digital humanities project, is now live! It is led by the following major partners: the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Libraries, Getty Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution, DePaul University, Bowdoin Art Museum, San Francisco State University, Artl@s/BasART, and Japanese American Service Committee in Chicago. View Laura…

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