Story and photos by Adam Chau, AsAmNews
MINNEAPOLIS-Less than a year since the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was unarmed, by Brooklyn Center police on April 11, 2021, has angered and frustrated communities around the state.
AsAmNews reached out to members in the local Minnesota AAPI community for their perspective and thoughts on the shooting of Daunte Wright.
David Mura: Novelist, poet, playwright, performer, teacher, and long standing activist in the Twin Cities. David is the recipient of multiple awards and honors including two NEA and two Bush Foundation Fellowships.
“Watching the video of Daunte Wright being shot and killed and the videos of George Floyd’s arrest and murder, I keep thinking: If only the police had said to Daunte and George, ‘Take a breath, relax. We’re not here to hurt you. It will be all right.’ But then they would have had to look at Daunte and George as fellow citizens, as innocent b
By Adam Chau, AsAmNews Staff Writer
ATLANTA-It’s the first time I’ve flown since the pandemic. I wear a double mask–a medical grade mask underneath my cloth mask. Even though I’ve been fully vaccinated for over a month, I still want to be careful because I don’t know what I don’t know.
Inside Minneapolis/St. Paul airport, I can’t help but notice all of the people whose masks are only covering their mouths and I think to myself that they just don’t want to wear their masks the right way–because the data and science is out there.
by Lian Xi
This article was first published in the December 22, 2011 issue of
This autumn, China has been marking the one hundredth anniversary of the collapse of its last imperial dynasty, the Qing, with a series of grand celebrations. The government has released an epic film showing how the revolution of 1911 prepared the way for the Communists’ takeover in 1949. It’s also just opened a museum about the uprising in the Yangtze metropolis of Wuhan where the revolution started. And the National Library in Beijing is hosting an exhibition with the not-so-subtle title “Awakening of the East.”
These celebrations have focused on the political implications of the Qing’s fall, but the 1911 revolution was a major change in a less obvious realm: the spiritual. This might seem obscure, of interest perhaps only to specialists in religious studies. In fact, China’s religious upheaval around 1911 is central to its last hundred years of tumult, helping to explain the fanatical to
American Craft Council unveils reimagined American Craft Magazine
Magazine to feature more visual storytelling and modern design.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
.-The American Craft Council announced that its launching its newly redesigned American Craft magazine. The magazines new editor, Karen Olson, helped reimagine the award-winning publication, which will be released in four issues per year, following the themes: Nourish, Flourish, Kinship, and Wonder. In addition to taking on a fresh, modern look, the magazines content will focus on telling the stories of the people, processes, and materials behind the craft community.
The restyled magazine examines how craft and its artists shape American life with a focus on visual storytelling. The publication will include three main sections: (1) New + Noteworthy, (2) a series of feature articles, and (3) The Crafted Life, which highlights the voices of artists themselves offering insight, advice, and experiences both in and out of the studio
Claire Brassil Wed, 02/10/2021 - 11:30am
“Cosmic Portals” by The Color Network artist Natalia Arbelaez installed on Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts’ campus in 2020. Courtesy of Claire Brassil
Artist Salvador Jiménez-Flores of The Color Network works on a piece in the Watershed studio in 2016. He will return to Watershed this summer as part of a residency session that is supported by a Grant for Arts Projects award from the NEA. Courtesy of Claire Brassil
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts was recently awarded a $30,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support a three-week artist residency organized by members of a national ceramic artist collective called The Color Network (TCN).