Asian American art and art by Asian Americans has not been highly visible in museum contexts, especially in thematic museum exhibitions and art histories.
The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum will be looking at ways to bring Asian American art to a future project at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis museum thanks to a Warhol Foundation grant.
for the Visual Arts has awarded a $50,000 curatorial fellowship grant to the Manetti Shrem Museum, independent curator , who is also a 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis professor and Department Chair of Asian American Studies, and contemporary art writer, juror and lecturer Amy Sadao.
Their work is already underway.
The 鈥淎bolition of a Category鈥 project started with an open invitation Min and Sadao issued in in 2022 urging a collective rethinking of the category of Asian American art and how it鈥檚 presented. Among their many questions: 鈥淗ow might we figure Asian American art as bringing on a new system that reveals and revels in decolonial arrangements and projects already underway, and/or makes room for new alliances, unexpected juxtapositions, connections, tensions, and dynamic collaborations?鈥
The grant allows Min and Sadao to further explore these and other questions and work toward a future project to be presented at the Manetti Shrem Museum.
The Warhol Foundation announced $4 million in arts grants in July, with 49 recipients in all.
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