#AAPI artists

[uwmspeccoll]

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: KEVIN MIYAZAKI

Today we highlight Milwaukee-based photographer and artist Kevin Miyazaki, and his book A Guide to Modern Camp Homes: 10 New Models & Plans for Persons of Japanese Ancestry. Our copy was published in 2024, but editions were also released in 2013, and 2018. Miyazaki’s statement on the final page characterizes the book as “a fictional publication containing only facts.” Styled after Sears Roebuck catalogues of the time, the optimistic salesmanship stands in harsh contrast to both the bleak descriptions of the camps, where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II, and the heavy legacy of our nation’s human rights abuses. In a section titled Home Design, the copy assures: “Constructed mainly from wood and tar paper, your new home is designed to conform to international law.”

The book draws extensively from archival materials. Photographs come from the catalogues of the Library of Congress and include documentary work by Ansel Adams, Clem Albers, Fred Clark, Hikaru Iwasaki, Dorothea Lange, Tom Parker and Francis Stewart. First person testimonials are from Densho, a public history project documenting and preserving oral histories and primary source materials related to the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Libby and Patrick Castro of LP/ws Design Studio crafted the architectural designs.

Copies of A Guide to Modern Camp Homes are available for purchase through the Japanese American National Museum.

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--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[quotidianish]

ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY DAYS HAPPY TIMES SOLIDARITY FOREVER!!!!! If u wanna see middle aged trans AAPI characters with messy situationships u should totally follow me and check out my ocs. WHO I PUT IN FANCY CONSTUMES 4 THIS MONTH!!!

Closeups under cut cus I’m super proud of this. Happy aapi month my guys

[erikohattori]

“The Moon Stays Bright in the Darkness,” 18”x24”, Graphite on paper, 2024.

[juliettelime]

Hi! I'm Kiara ✨

This account is a mix of art posting and occasional misc reblogs. Please follow my art archive account @juliettelimeillust​ if you'd like to solely follow me for my art. (NOTE: my archive account is currently locked for maintenance, apologies in advance.) Thank you!

Welcome to my main art account! I’m a Filipino-American illustrator based in the Pacific Northwest and my work centers around emotional characters and sentimental storytelling.

Check out my portfolio here!

Main tags on this account:

🎨 ART TAG - For all posts of my art

Business inquiry:

📌 (CLOSED) COMMISSION INFO (Tumblr post) 🌐 juliettelime.com - My portfolio website 💌 k.juliettelime@gmail.com - Please reach me here for any and all business/commission-related things!

Online shops:

🔆 ETSY - sticker store, currently only shipping within the US 💍 INPRNT - art print store ❣️ PATREON - paid memberships for behind the scenes goodies

Other places to find me:

🪞 INSTAGRAM - most active here 🦋 BLUESKY - 2nd most active here 📽 YOUTUBE - mostly reposted instagram reels ☕️ KO-FI - for tips, thank you!

[theoffingmag]

Untitled (202012-Oil), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in, © Candy Koh, 2020.

Dreaming plays an important role in Candy Koh’s artistic journey. Her dreams were intensely vivid, leaving her awash with emotions upon waking. These weren’t just typical dreams but intense experiences that were her reality. In moments when reality feels too heavy and expressing her internal world becomes challenging, she retreats into these dreamlike spaces, a place where her unutterable thoughts and emotions can exist freely beyond the confines of the physical world.

Jaeyeon Chung, "There Was Never a Beginning or End in the First Place"

[emberz7]

Another filipino/Chinese deltarune artist let's goooooo

0EMGEE THATS AWESOME

[thispapercloud]

Page 2 of my lunar year zodiac coloring book

[stevenfact]

Support Indie AAPI Publishing!!

Hi, everyone!!! I know it's been a while (like many years...) and Steven/Ryan kinda dropped the bomb by being a very lame capitalist (boo). This is why it's awesome that you can now support very cool & awesome AAPI creatives who are NOT trying to swindle you (YAY!)

I've been volunteering at Slant'd, an indie nonprofit publisher focused on uplifting and sharing AAPI writers, artists, and creatives! Issue 06: Homecoming is a collection of heartwarming and provocatively told stories that unpack the different layers of home and the complex feelings and experiences that come with it. You can pre-order here (+ other cool rewards you can check out!) Kickstarter operates on an all-or-nothing basis, so please consider backing us today. BONUS: Since we’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, some of our rewards are tax-deductible! We also have corporate deals/bundles, so let me know if you're interested in your 9-5 supporting Slant'd!  Instead of supporting very sad ex-buzzfeed employees who are now apologizing on the couch, you can now support upcoming AAPI artists! BTW here's our IG if you want to check it out.

We're dangerously close to not hitting our goal :( so help us out by supporting our Kickstarter (you can donate from $1), signal boosting this post, and sharing more Slant'd content. Think of sharing this post like... if you don't reblog this post your worst enemy (Steven Lim) might haunt you with capitalist BS! And also we're accepting book proposals if you're an AAPI writer looking for a publisher!

[itsmaddiebee]

“green minnows” by mana (taken 08 apr. 2017)

[sonoe-13]

This is a more developed sketch of "Pet" which will be an illustration about the fetishization of Asian people by non-Asians. It is heavily referenced from an image I found in an article, I've posted the image below is an earlier post.

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a look at This Land is My Land, a newly acquired addition to our collection from book artist, concrete poet, & graphic designer Thad Higa. This 100-page work is “a fictional narrative from the imagined headspace of current day, online white supremacists, nationalists, and their sympathizers”. It was digitally printed, features Coptic binding with uncovered boards as well as two multi-page foldouts, and was self-published in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies in Oakland, CA in 2023. 

Higa is an Okinawan-Korean American cultural worker born in California in 1989 and raised in Hawaiʻi. His practice “investigates the intersections of language, technology, capitalism and eurocentrism, and their roles in controlling perceptions of reality and legibility.” In This Land is My Land, Higa “weaves together all manner of rhetorical devices and strategies, creating an experience familiar to anyone who has read the comments on an online article or listened to attendees at a Trump rally.” The structure of the book inherently encourages interaction, emphasizing the participatory and performative nature not only of reading & text-based communication but also of the formation and enaction of political identity.  

His work has been highlighted on the Lantern Review, Artists’ Book Reviews, Art Review, Art Papers & Hawai’i Public Radio, and featured in the exhibitions whistling the avant garde (Small Press Traffic, San Francisco CA, 2023) and O, (FiveMyles, Brooklyn NY, 2021).  

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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[rougedraconteur]

Nope you idiots, do your research.

Not my job to defend Darren Criss-endom (2019, Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Limited Series for The Assassination of Gianni Versace-American Crime Story, mom Cerena Criss is native of Philippines) but IT IS your job to get this right. I swear to god, so-called celebrity journalism is a joke. Just call yourselves marketing/public relations/say anything for a buck celeb wanna-bes and be done with it. Plus, whenweallvote idiots, Criss has always been a big campaigner for voting rights and educating his community to know the issues and register as soon as you are eligible, so double screw-up for you. Plus, let’s go three for three, you just managed to make the Golden Globes old guard look smarter than you young media hustlers and politicos, so there’s THAT. Get your shit together.

Congratulations to @steveyeun & @aliwong who each won ‘Best Actor in a Limited Series’ at the #GoldenGlobes! 😍

They’ve made history tonight as the first Asian-American woman and second Asian-American man to win in their respective categories 🏆 

[erikohattori]

“Someone’s at the Horizon,” 14”x17.5”, Gouache and Ink on Paper, 2020

IG 🥰

Buy my prints 😘

[mjrojasart]

I'm having a Christmas in July sale in my shop!

All items listed in the linked collection are 25% off (yes, including clearance items!) throughout the month of July. Discount will automatically apply to your shopping cart.

Sale ends 7.31.23 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Does not apply to wholesale, previous, or custom orders and cannot be combined with any other offer.

[art]

Meet the Artist: @nyangjinart

Hi everyone! My name is Jin (she/her) and I'm a Korean American artist from NYC. I love drawing magical retro aesthetic art and cute animals that are colorful and vibrant. Art has been my comfort zone and passion for as long as I can remember, so I hope that my art can give that sense of comfort and nostalgia for others! I would have never thought my art journey would bring me to such a community of vast people who also love what I love, so I hope that I can make more connections!

Nice to meet you, Jin! Below are some pieces she has picked out for you all.

Check out more of Jin's work over at her Tumblr, @nyangjinart!

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We are highlighting some of Tumblr’s talented artists of Asian descent all month as part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

[micronsizedbean]

egg tarts from my taiwan trip