Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) for a talk on, Visual Dialogues: Public Art and Social Transformations, by Katie Yamasaki, on Friday, March 11, 2011, from 6PM to 8PM, at the 25 W. 43rd Street, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan.
For Katie Yamasaki, public and mural art has the unique ability to create new dialogues that challenge the evolving identities of communities in transition, communities of political and/or cultural resistance and communities of the displaced/disenfranchised. Her work, culturally and politically is woven together by the common threads of communication, transformation and liberation.
Katie will share her global public art projects as well as her past and upcoming book projects. Fish for Jimmy is a book for children which will be published in September, 2012. Based on a family story, it tells the story of two boys in the Japanese Internment Camps. It is Yamasaki’s first published book as both author/illustrator. She will also discuss Yama, the illustrated biography of her grandfather, architect Minoru Yamasaki. This story tells the tale of the Nisei experience from the perspective of her grandfather who came to be known as one of the most influential American architects of the 20th Century.
Finally, the presentation will consider the evolving role of public art and art of cultural identity in the ever-changing Asian American community.
This talk is free and open to the public.
To register, please call 212-869-0182/0187. For security purposes, please be prepared to show identification when entering building.