A video presentation on artasiamerica.org – an Asian American Artists Archive – will be showing 24/7 starting January 8th through March in the widow of 384 Broadway. Inside where its warm this short 20 minute video can also be seen & heard. Two score and ten artists works are brought together, presented as an introduction to the creative side of Asia America from the post WWII era to the present.

Since 1983 after thirty plus years of exhibitions, the AAAC has accumulated a research archive of over 1,600 file entries touching on the history of Asian American art in the United States dating back to 1945. In 2009, the AAAC transformed a portion of this material into a professional archive for long-term preservation. The digital archive contains a selection of nearly 200 artists and can be viewed online at artasiamerica.org. AAAC Blog and Permanent Collection reflects more recent artist developments.

Asian American Arts Centre brings cultural events in contemporary visual art to the general public. It aims for creative vitality by engaging other communities and concerns in a creative encounter. With roots in Basement Workshop and founded in 1974 as a not-for-profit Pan-Asian community arts organization, the Arts Centre has come to see the arts in their historical, and spiritual relationship to diverse neighborhoods, particularly midst the pressures of city life in Chinatown.

What does art have to say about our contemporary moment? Art Across Archives explores this question by drawing on the work of Asian diaspora artists active since the 60s and more recently. This exhibition features material from three New York collections, the Asian American Arts Centre (AAAC), the Asia Art Archive in America (AAAinA) in February, and the Asian/Pacific/American Collections at NYU (A/P/A Institute) in March. Think Chinatown’s goal is to open these archives to fresh perspectives to catalyze new ideas in the community.

THINK!CHINATOWN is a collective of neighbors and advocates working to keep Chinatown a vibrant place of inter-generational learning, cultural production & civic engagement. Join us in connecting past, present & future to ensure a resilient Chinatown. — www.thinkchinatown.org

384 Broadway is a temporary art space presented by THINK!CHINATOWN and ChaShaMa. With the mission to increase representation of Asian American artists and themes of concern to our community. We aim to engage a broader community in the practice of creating and presenting art, especially across generational and community boundaries.

Chashama supports artists by giving them the space to create and present their work. Chashama was founded in 1995 in response to the lack of affordable space for emerging artists in New York to create and present their work. Chashama partners with property owners to re-purpose unused commercial real estate into space for artists’ dreams to become reality.