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CAA Feb 13, 2025 “Okinawan Diaspora Indigenous Solidarities and the Shimanchu Hajichi Tattoo Revival”
College Art Association Feb 13, 11 am-12:30 pm EST New York Hilton Midtown 3rd Floor Grand Ballroom West 10 Years of ADVA Journal: Hindsights, Insights, Futures Thinking Chairs: Alice M. Jim Concordia University Alexandra ChangRutgers University Newark State University of New Jersey Discussant: Marissa Largo York University “In Relation to Asian American” Tom Wolf, Bard…
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Blue Gold Catalog now available
Mingei’s collection holds over 30,000 objects of folk art, craft, and design. With storage at capacity, acquisitions are carefully considered to align with our mission—especially the commitment to exhibit and collect the work of contemporary artists. Recent highlights include incredible works featured in “Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo” by Laura Kina, Christina…
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Laura Kina’s painting was featured in Awich – The Union concert
Okinawan hip-hop musician Awich commissioned me to create a painting for her song Ryukyu Love Song Remix. The painting was featured on an LED screen on stage on Nov 5, 2023, as part of her The Union concert at the K-Arena in Yokohama, Japan.
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Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within – Yale University Press/The Noguchi Museum. Preorders now available
We are excited to announce an expansive monograph titled, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, by The Noguchi Museum, in association with Yale University Press, is available for preorders! https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267402/toshiko-takaezu/ Edited by Glenn Adamson, Dakin Hart and Kate Wiener Contributions by Ai Fukunaga, Nonie Gadsden, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Laura Kina, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Margo Machida, Laura Mott and…
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Verge Spring 2023 cover artwork and Featured article
Laura Kina’s 2019 painting “Ufushu Gajumaru (Giant Banyon Tree), Valley of Gangala, Okinawa, Japan” is on the front cover and her “Holding On” series is featured in an article by Ryan Buyco “Finding New Routes”: Visualizing an Oceanic Okinawa in Laura Kina’s Holding On (2019) in the Spring 2023 issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias.
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Oct 30th lecture – Tracing Uchinanchu Roots
Watch Laura Kina’s Oct 30, 2023 artist talk “Tracing Uchinanchu Roots” ) at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum.
Laura Kina
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