"A Place of Your Own:" Artists-in-Residency at the de Young Museum January 20, 2009

AAWAA (Asian American Women Artists Association) presents:

“A Place of Your Own”
10 prominent Asian-American artists-in-residence at the de Young Museum’s Kimball Education Gallery.

Cynthia Tom, Curator
Participating artists: Keiko Nelson, Christina Mazza, Lydia Nakashima Deggarod, Shari Arai De Boer, Susan Almazol, Terry Acebo Davis, Machiko Kondo, Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Sue Tom, Anna X.L Wong

“If you had a place of your own, what would it be?”

Throughout the month of January, ten prominent Asian-American artists will be in residence at the Kimball Gallery, creating 3-D art installations that reflect their answers to the search for ‘place’. The artists will be working with a variety of media –sculptures, drawings, paintings, photography, and mixed media.

AAWAA invites visitors to bring a collection of favorite items, small enough to fit into a bread box, to the Kimball Gallery and the residency artists will provide guidance about making a place of one’s own.

AAWAA artists will be working onsite at the Kimball Gallery during regular museum hours. In addition to the residency in the Kimball Gallery, AAWAA will present two events. “Cheers to Muses” is a reading from the AAWAA anthology of the same name by the authors (Sunday, January 25, 1-3 pm at the Koret Auditorium, book signing to follow in the Kimball Gallery). And on Friday, January 30 from 6 – 8:30pm, AAWAA will celebrate their residency with a Closing Reception with live music played by DU UY Septet led by Danny Cao. Light refreshments will be served.

WHEN: January 7 – February 1, 2009

TIMES: Tuesdays – Sundays: 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Fridays: 1:00pm – 8:45pm

PLACE: Kimball Education Gallery at the de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco

TICKETS: Free admission into the Kimball Education Gallery
$10 surcharge above regular museum admission for entry to all special exhibitions: Asian/American Modern Art, Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes (both through 1/18/09), and Yves Saint Laurent.

PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR “A PLACE OF YOUR OWN”: (415) 750-3528 and aawaa.net

Admission to the Kimball Education Gallery is free of charge.

Official Website: http://www.aawaa.net