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SUMMARY:Love and Protect Mural Series
DESCRIPTION:“Love and Protect” is a condemnation of violence and a commitment to uplift\, nourish\, fortify and pay homage to our communities so that when we rise\, we rise up together. On April 10th-11th\, 2021\, local Asian and Black Bay Area visual artists and community members came together to produce a series of mobile public art murals in Oakland Chinatown for communities impacted by Asian hate crimes. \nArtists Cece Carpio of Trust Your Struggle Collective and Tommy Wong of Civic Design Studio and Good Good Eatz brought together local artists who are deeply rooted in the fight for racial and environment justice. \nPARTICIPATING ARTISTS: \nEmory Douglas\, Tarika Lewis\, Cece Carpio\, Robert Liu-Trujillo\, Elaine Chu\, Priya Handa\, Miguel “Bounce” Perez\, Eric Norberg\, Karen Seneferu\, Malik Seneferu\, Thitiwat Phromratanapongse\, Cecilia Dong\, Catherine McMahon\, Ming Mur-Eay\, Elokin Orton Cheung\, Harrison Street Senior Art Collective\, Deanna Brownfield\, Malik Byers\, Greer Nakagawa Lee\, Maya Looney\, Lauryn Marshall\, & Asians 4 Black Lives.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:"Longing for Attachment" Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Longing for Attachment\nExhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024\nARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment\,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments. \nAs immigrants\, refugees\, and their descendants\, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true\, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts. \nWe invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment\, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee\, immigrant\, and children of immigrant artists. \nExhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27\, 2024 \nGallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM \nLocation: Oakland Asian Cultural Center \n388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n\nCheck out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition\, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o \n\nCurator\n\n \nBushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, and emigrated to Houston\, Texas\, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age\, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994\, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art\, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery\, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin\, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez\, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009\, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years\, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States. \nExhibiting Artists\nAmanda Messina Gerodias \nAnita Sulimanovic \nBushra Gill \nChristina Xu \nChupis \nDion \nEva Agus \nEzra Mara \nFernanda Martinez \nGlish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina) \nHargun Mahal Mann \nJaide Lin \nLark \nLeón Hernandez \nLeyla Jamil Rzayeva \nLinah Sofi \nLorraine Lawson \nMariel Paat \nMartin Rodriguez Serrano \nMichelle Lin \nNarges Valibeigi \nNgân Vũ \nNhien Le \nPeter Gee \nRenacimiento \nRia Sharma \nRussel Arelis \nSalma Arastu \nShooting Within \nTatiana Carvalho \nUjjayini Sikha \nVreni Michelini Castillo \nYouBeen Kim \nYuting Wang \nPerforming at the Opening Reception\n\nNadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer\, choreographer\, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place\, identity\, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian\, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews\, historical texts\, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor\, agency\, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre\, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program\, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi\, visit www.navadance.org.\n \nRoopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful\, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux\, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz\, soul/R&B\, and various global traditions\, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective\, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns\, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, Hedgebrook\, MASS MOCA\, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit\, www.roopamahadevan.com.
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LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Precious Beings Exhibition & Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION:PRECIOUS BEINGS\n Finding the connections between endangered ecosystems and the violence inflicted upon Indigenous women.   \nExhibition Dates:\nAug. 1\, 2024 – Sept. 7\, 2024\n\nClosing Reception: Wednesday\, Sept. 4\, 2024\, 5 PM- 7 PM \n(Link to Register Below)\n\nWestern scientific thought has long approached both nature and people of color as territories to be dominated\, inspected\, and mined for information and resources. Ecofeminism has made persuasive arguments connecting women and nature. \nKim Shuck’s (Cherokee) beadwork seeks to encourage more awareness of the biome around us and our place in that biome. Curious creatures of all kinds populate Kim’s beaded world. It is a world created bead by bead not to question or harvest but to recognize and acknowledge relationships and community. These precious beings are not fragile\, though they have been subjected to violent environmental change. We are all subject to these changes. \nBarbara Mumby’s (Patawomeck\, Pamunkey\, and Mattaponi) portraits of women seek to shift regressive narratives about how beauty is defined\, particularly for Indigenous women and women of color. The artist creates work\, not to cater to the male gaze\, but to shift power into the hands of the sitter. Intimate stories of family\, love\, trials\, and victories are subversively woven into each brush stroke\, resulting in large-scale\, vibrant works that force viewers to acknowledge their presence and force. These women refuse to be ignored\, sexualized\, erased\, or defined by others. \nTogether\, Shuck’s and Mumby’s work sit in dialogue with one another. Interwoven threads reach between and connect our endangered animals and plants to the silencing of and violence inflicted upon Indigenous women. \nThis exhibition’s closing reception will take place on Wednesday\, Sept. 4\, 2024\, 5 PM – 7 PM.  \n  \nGallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays\, 12 PM – 5 PM \nLocation: Oakland Asian Cultural Center \n388 9th St\, Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA \n\n\n\nRegister\n \n\nFeatured Artists\n \nBarbara Mumby (Patawomeck\, Pamunkey\, and Mattaponi) descends from the Powhatan Confederacy\, specifically the Patawomeck\, Pamunkey\, and Mattaponi Peoples. She was born and raised in California’s rural Central Valley\, where her family’s Native American heritage and work as migrant farmers greatly influenced her passion for social justice. The arts became an integral part of her life and worked as a coping mechanism for the poverty and instability surrounding her. \nBarbara is an artist\, activist\, curator\, consultant\, and Indigenous Narrative Shifter; she uses the arts to challenge inaccurate and outdated perceptions of Indigenous Peoples and other marginalized communities. She views the arts as a powerful and effective tool for survival and an instrument to unite communities and move public policy. \n \nKim Shuck (Cherokee) is the 7TH Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita and a silly protein. She has been making textiles well before she was in school\, and thinks of the textile process as a first language. Kim has an MFA in textiles from San Francisco State University\, and in Indigenous circles\, her beadwork is celebrated across the country. Many of the pieces shown here represent endangered and extinct biota from places that are important to her. \nCreative Work Fund has supported many of Kim’s pieces in this exhibition.
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/preciousbeings/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:From Chinatown to West Oakland: Community Portraits of Healing
DESCRIPTION:From Chinatown to West Oakland: Community Portraits of Healing\n  \nExhibition Dates:\nJan. 30\, 2025 – May 1\, 2025\n“There is actually a collective historical trauma that we hold\, and we carry… and that we are also trying to recognize and heal for our future generations…”  \n  \nIn this new photo exhibition titled From Chinatown to West Oakland: Community Portraits of Healing\, Oakland community members share their experiences of pain and trauma\, as well as their expressions of hope and humanity. \n  \nJoin Asian Health Services and Baywell Health on Friday\, February 21\, 2025\, for the opening reception of their new photo exhibition based on the Asian-Black Racial Healing Project. The two community health centers launched this project in 2021 in response to the heightened violence experienced by both communities. Over 1\,000 Asian and Black Oakland community members engaged in interviews and delved into conversations on race\, violence\, and healing. This exhibition and event celebrates our communities and our collective desire for connection\, safety\, and healing across cultures. \n\nRegister for the opening reception\n \nAbout Asian Health Services\nAsian Health Services\, founded in 1974\, provides health\, social\, and advocacy services for all\, regardless of income\, insurance status\, immigration status\, language\, or culture. Their approach to well-being focuses on “whole patient health\,” which is why they provide not just primary care services but include mental health\, case management\, nutrition\, and dental care to more than 50\,000 patients in English and 15 languages. \n  \nWebsite: https://asianhealthservices.org/our-mission/ \nAbout Baywell Health\nFounded by four African-American mothers fifty years ago amid the Civil Rights and Black Power movements\, Baywell Health’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of its communities by providing the highest quality of health care and treatment for its diverse patient population throughout Alameda County.  Each clinic’s health center strives to be a hub for health\, compassion\, engagement\, and inspiration. \n  \nWebsite: https://westoaklandhealth.org/
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/from-chinatown-to-west-oakland-community-portraits-of-healing/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T120000
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SUMMARY:Satr-e Rahayi: An Exhibition of Calligraphy Works by Hakim Karimzada
DESCRIPTION:Satr-e Rahayi:\nAn Exhibition of Calligraphy Works by Hakim Karimzada\n  \nExhibition available to view May 16\, 2025 – Aug. 9\, 2025\, during OACC’s business hours\n“Satr-e Rahayi” (Line of Liberation) is the title of this solo exhibition showcasing Hakim Karimzada’s latest collection of calligraphy works. The name was chosen because the pieces in this collection represent a fusion of traditional and modern calligraphy. The conventional boundaries and constraints of classical calligraphy have been intentionally broken\, allowing for a freer\, more expressive approach to the art. \nThis sense of freedom opens new realms for artistic exploration\, making the creative process more natural and authentic. It invites the artist’s mind to expand and flow more openly\, enabling the creation of a collection that is spontaneous and deeply emotional. The artist seeks to convey a vivid sense of passion and artistic feeling to the audience through dynamic curves and movements of letters and words. \nIn doing so\, the works not only transmit emotional depth and beauty but also contribute to a broader atmosphere of artistic serenity—one that fosters peace\, friendship\, empathy\, and a shared appreciation of culture. It’s a creative journey that aspires toward well-being\, love\, and a profound respect for the universal value of art in our contemporary world. \nArt\, by its very nature\, belongs to all people\, transcending borders and backgrounds. Every human being has the right to experience and enjoy artistic expression. Hakim is truly delighted that at this moment in time\, in this beautiful space\, he has the opportunity to share a glimpse of life through the lens of beauty and artistic reflection—with those who appreciate and cherish art. \nThis exhibition is available to view during OACC’s business hours (Wed – Sat\, 12 PM – 5 PM). \nAbout the Artist\n \nAbdul Hakim Karimzada\, born in Afghanistan\, is a DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) and master calligrapher with over 30 years of experience in different types of calligraphy and fine writing\, such as traditional and modern scripts. He started calligraphy in the Herat Province of Afghanistan by learning different writing styles\, including Nastaliq\, Kofie\, Naskh\, and Thuluth scripts. He went on to create thousands of works by using these scripts. He also invented a new fine writing called Nilofar over the course of his calligraphy life. \nKarimzada is a senior board member and trainer at the Herat Calligraphy Association.⁠ He has actively participated in various calligraphy exhibitions inside and outside of Afghanistan and many solo exhibitions of his work. He has won numerous awards for his art and the collections of his calligraphy works. \nLearn more about Karimzada’s work at hakimkarimzada.com.⁠
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/satr-e-rahayi/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:She Isn't A Metaphor: An Exhibition of Mixed Media by Nimisha Doongarwal
DESCRIPTION:On view: August 14 – November 1 (during OACC open hours)\n\nWednesday–Saturday\, noon–5 pm\nShe Isn’t a Metaphor reimagines mythological women not as symbols or ideals\, but as powerful\, complex women. Drawing from Hindu mythology and other traditions\, this series of mixed media by artist Nimisha Doongarwal challenges how women have been used as symbols—Sita for purity\, Draupadi for sacrifice\, or Medusa for fear—while their own voices have been erased. \nThrough layered collage\, textiles\, and paint\, these figures are brought into the present\, where they speak back. They are not here to uphold expectations. They are here to reclaim space\, tell their truths\, and offer new ways of seeing ourselves. This work isn’t just about the past\, it’s about now. It’s a call to unlearn\, to reimagine\, and to find strength in stories told on our own terms. \nThe work asks the viewer\, “What parts of the past do we still carry? What do we need to let go of in order to become whole?” \nShe Isn’t a Metaphor is for anyone who has felt unseen or unheard. It’s about more than reclaiming the past\, it’s about reimagining the future. These figures aren’t just remembered\, they are rewritten\, reawakened\, and ready to speak for themselves. \nAbout the Artist\n \nNimisha Doongarwal is a San Francisco-based mixed-media artist originally from India. Her work explores identity\, memory\, and migration through layered compositions that blend traditional Indian textiles\, painting\, collage\, and archival imagery. Rooted in South Asian craft and personal experience\, her art challenges fixed notions of identity\, offering instead a space of transformation and resilience. \nNimisha’s work has been exhibited at institutions including the de Young Museum\, the San Francisco International Airport\, and the Museum of Northern California Art. She has been featured in Forbes\, ArtMarket\, Suboart and Sfumato art magazines. \nFind more of Nimisha’s work online at www.nimishart.com or on Instagram @nimishart.
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/she-isnt-a-metaphor/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:"The Asian Elder Portrait Project:" An Exhibition of Drawings by Luke Sera-Tacorda
DESCRIPTION:NOW EXTENDED!\nOn view November 5\, 2025–January 31\, 2026\nFREE\n31 \nThe Asian Elder Portrait Project: The Heart of Chinatown as Seen through the Eyes of a Teen is Luke Sera-Tacorda’s first solo exhibition. Each portrait was drawn with graphite on paper\, using a photograph reference of the subject taken by the artist. \nSociety often chooses not to see the senior citizens who have built and continue to be part of our communities. Collectively\, we often fail to see their individuality or try to relate to them\, and we all lose when those relationships are unformed. The Asian Elder Portrait Project aims to depict the vibrancy and unique qualities of each elder. Each smile line\, glint in a pair of glasses\, and shy expression conveys a unique and intriguing narrative. \nAmerican painter Georgia O’Keeffe (an inspiration to Sera-Tacorda on how to convey mood and emotion through art)\, wrote in 1968\, “When I began to paint flowers\, I was sure nobody would pay attention. So I thought\, I’ll make them big and they’ll pay attention.” Through this project\, Sera-Tacorda aims to magnify the joyous expressions of our elders and show Oakland and the greater Bay Area community why they are worth paying attention to. \n \nAbout the Artist \nLuke Sera-Tacorda is the seventeen-year-old artist behind the Asian Elder Portrait Project. As a child\, his family recalls him doodling on notebooks\, restaurant napkins\, and church bulletins before he could talk. Unlike most young kids with an affinity towards visual art\, though\, drawing fantastical subjects never enticed him. Rather\, before he had the language to describe it\, he found joy in accurately depicting the smaller and unassuming details of everyday life: the subtle interplay of light and shadow\, the dynamics of movement\, the mechanics of perspective\, and most of all\, the emotional quality that drew him to his subjects in the first place. Thus\, after years of experimenting with different forms of art\, realism has proven to be his strongest and preferred form of self-expression. He hopes to continue his creative journey by pursuing architecture in college.
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LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Topaz Toddlers Exhibition: Children’s Art from an American Concentration Camp
DESCRIPTION:On view February 4-March 14\nWed-Sat\, 12 noon-5 pm\n\nFREE\nThis exhibit showcases the art\, stories\, and history of preschoolers incarcerated at Utah’s WWII Japanese American incarceration camp\, Topaz. Despite unjust imprisonment\, these toddlers experienced preschool life much like other American children\, taught by dedicated Japanese American teachers. More than 70 years later\, a collection of art created by the preschoolers resurfaced. Over 20 of the Topaz preschoolers—who are now elders in their 80s—have been interviewed and reunited with their art pieces. The exhibition was researched\, interpreted\, and designed in collaboration with current college students and an early childhood education scholar\, working alongside community members to share new perspectives and analysis. \nA panel discussion was held on February 22 with speakers who discussed the preschoolers’ artwork and the project that located nearly 30 of them\, as well as background on preschool education at Topaz\, analysis of the artwork from an early childhood education research perspective\, and reflections and reactions from some of the “toddler” artists. \nThe exhibition and panel discussion are sponsored by The Topaz Museum\, The Takahashi Foundation\, The Anthropological Studies Center at Sonoma State University\, and The Koret Foundation.
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/topaz-toddlers/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our Language\, Our Story: Photos by Joyce Xi
DESCRIPTION:On view: March 18-May 23\, Wednesday-Saturday 12 noon–5 pm\nOpening reception: Saturday\, April 4\, 4-6pm\n\nFREE\nOur Language\, Our Story is a photo storytelling project by photographer Joyce Xi. It uplifts the stories and lived experiences of Bay Area immigrants through the lens of language. The exhibit\, featuring stories from 20+ community members in 10+ languages\, celebrates Bay Area immigrants\, refugees and language justice. Through each person’s own words and photos\, it explores the joys and challenges of experiencing the world in one’s mother tongue\, and the barriers when it is not available. \nThe public is invited to an artist reception with Joyce Xi on Saturday\, April 4\, from 4-6 pm. Light refreshments will be served. The reception is free to attend\, but registration is requested at the link below. \nOur Language\, Our Story was created in partnership with the Asian Law Caucus and in collaboration with community organizations including PODER\, Chinese Progressive Association (CPA)\, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants (CERI)\, Trabajadores Unidos Workers United (TUWU)\, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)\, California Karen Youth Connection (CKYC)\, Filipino Community Center (FCC)\, Meadi Wellness\, California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA)\, and Asian Health Services. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for Artist Reception\n \nABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER\n \nJoyce Xi is a community photographer and activist based in the Bay Area. Her work \ncovers Asian American and immigrant communities\, solidarity building\, and social \nmovements. She makes photos as a way to envision and create a more just and free \nworld\, and works in relationship with the people\, communities\, and organizations \ninvolved. Her work has been exhibited across the Bay Area – most recently at the Yerba \nBuena Center for the Arts and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, in media publications\, \nand as part of advocacy campaigns. She was an awardee for the California Creative \nCorps Initiative\, which helped support the Our Language\, Our Story project and exhibit. You can find her work online at joycexiphotography.mypixieset.com.
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/joyce-xi/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260624T120000
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SUMMARY:From Ochazuke to Adobo: Care\, Memory\, and the Immigrant Kitchen with Julia LaChica
DESCRIPTION:On view through August 15\, 2026\nOACC open hours Wed-Sat\, 12-5 pm\nClosing Reception and Artist Tour: Sat\, Aug 15\, 1-2 pm\nFREE\nFrom Ochazuke to Adobo: Care\, Memory\, and the Immigrant Kitchen is a multidisciplinary installation that grows out of artist Julia LaChica’s ongoing work on caregiving\, family history\, and diasporic identity. Building on themes first explored in A Promise Unspoken\, a memorial project for her mother\, this installation extends that inquiry into food\, migration\, and the ways culture is continually made within everyday domestic spaces. \nLaChica understands ochazuke and adobo as living archives—recipes as pedagogy\, kitchens as classrooms\, and caregiving as cultural transmission. Growing up Japanese/Filipino in San Francisco\, she learned culture not through formal institutions but through daily acts of cooking\, storytelling\, and adaptation. This project situates those intimate memories within broader immigrant and diasporic histories. \nThrough visual art\, text\, and ritual gestures\, she examines how families preserve\, hybridize\, and reinvent traditions across generations. LaChica is particularly interested in how memory is carried forward within queer\, mixed-race\, and diasporic communities. In this work\, cooking and caregiving become forms of cultural production and resistance—acts through which we sustain one another and make belonging possible. \nThe exhibition will be on view from June 24-August 15 during OACC open hours (12 noon-5 pm) or by appointment. The August 15 closing reception and tour with Julia LaChica is free to attend with registration at the link below. Light refreshments will be served. \n\nRegister for Free Tickets\n \nABOUT THE ARTIST \n \nJulia LaChica is a queer Japanese/Filipino multidisciplinary visual artist\, designer\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. Her work explores intergenerational memory\, caregiving\, diaspora\, and the everyday rituals through which culture is made and transmitted. Drawing from family archives\, spoken word\, and a visual language shaped by protest and pedagogy\, LaChica centers domestic spaces—kitchens\, altars\, and archives—as sites of cultural production\, resistance\, and healing.
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/ochazuke-adobo/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Exhibitions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc
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