Exhibits
In/Visible A: The Building of an Asian American Film Community
In/Visible A: The Building of an Asian American Film Community
January 25, 2024
- July 2, 2024
Austin History Center - 810 Guadalupe St.
About the Exhibit
Now on view in the Holt Gallery
This vibrant exhibition reveals Austin Asian American Film Festival's (AAAFF) evolution from a small film-centric event to a major cultural arts organization.
In/Visible A provides a comprehensive look into AAAFF's history, featuring photographs, posters, program guides, and other records. The exhibit traces the festival's origins and growth, highlighting its role in amplifying Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) voices in Austin's cultural landscape and its emergence as a hub for storytelling and cultural exploration.
This retrospective aims to emphasize the significance of representation in media and the influential role of film in community dialogue. It offers visitors insights into AAAFF's dedication to showcasing diverse AANHPI narratives and its contributions to Austin's cultural diversity.
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Artwork displayed in the banner was created by Emily Ding
The Bobby Dixon Kollective Fusion Poster Exhibition: Celebrating Hip Hop Through Artistry and Design
The Bobby Dixon Kollective Fusion Poster Exhibition: Celebrating Hip Hop Through Artistry and Design
Bobby Dixon (KLCTVE Design + Illustration)
March 26, 2024
- May 23, 2024
Ruiz Branch - 1600 Grove Blvd.
About the Exhibit
This exhibition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop through the work of local artist and designer Bobby Dixon of Kollective Fusion (AKA KLCTVE Design + Illustration).
About the Artist
For two decades, Bobby has produced screen-printed concert posters for local, national, and international acts. The posters in this exhibition showcase Bobby's artistic design in works created for prominent hip-hop performers that have graced Austin stages.
Travelling Exhibit of Bookmark Art
Travelling Exhibit of Bookmark Art
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: A Community Mural Project
May 1, 2024
- May 31, 2024
Hampton Branch at Oak Hill - 5125 Convict Hill Rd.
About the Exhibit
This community mural in three panels contains a total of around 250 bookmarks created by Austinites of all ages, expressing their thoughts about what “the freedom to read” means to them, and showing love for their favorite books - especially those that are being challenged or banned across the state and the U.S. This is a travelling exhibit and will be visiting different locations around Austin. See below for the schedule.
TOUR SCHEDULE 2024
- JANUARY - Teen Central @ Central Library
- FEBRUARY - Twin Oaks Branch
- MARCH - Southeast Branch
- APRIL - Pleasant Hill Branch
- MAY - Hampton Branch @ Oak Hill
- JUNE - Teen Central @ Central Library
- JULY - Old Quarry Branch
- SEPTEMBER - Windsor Park Branch
- OCTOBER - Little Walnut Creek Branch
- NOVEMBER - St. John Branch
About the Artist
250 bookmarks created by Austinites of all ages!
Image credit
Kathleen Houlihan
Gnortsmra
Gnortsmra
Yamin Li
May 2, 2024
- July 14, 2024
Central Library - 710 W. César Chávez St.
Gallery (2nd Floor)
About the Exhibit
Artist Exhibition Reception: Thursday, May 2, 2024, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Art-making Workshop with Yamin at Central Library's Signature AANHPI Event: May 19, 2024, 2pm-4pm, 2nd floor Art Gallery
Artist Statement: As an immigrant, I often feel out of place. Entangled in the present, I long for the past and worry about the future. Observing my own relationships with my family and friends reveals the impact our relationships to our surroundings have on our psychological beings. Art provides a way to explore my attachment to and detachment from my habitats in my journey.
In this series of paintings, I use childlike graffiti, playful shapes, humorous visual language and bright colors, to create visual images of everyday life. I put familiar habitual objects such as houses, trees, figures and toys together with seemingly random fragments extracted from our surroundings to portray psychological habitats and portraits. Through these paintings, we experience/re-experience, understand and embrace challenges of being out of place.
About the Artist
Growing up in Suzhou, China, Yamin Li never remotely imagined herself pursuing art. Even in her early 20s, it was for studying Molecular Biology that she came to the US on a student visa and enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin PhD program. But she soon grew apart from studying the effect of alcohol on human brains through science, and instead dedicated herself to studying the influence of culture on the human mind through art. Yamin started the BFA program at the UT-Austin College of Fine Arts in 2012. She has exhibited in many local Austin venues, including UT’s Visual Arts Center, Women and Their Work Gallery, Co-lab, EAST Austin, Julia C. Butridge Gallery, People's Gallery and Canvas | ATX Gallery, as well as in Shanghai and Chengdu during her recent two-year stay in China.
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Yamin Li