The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation hosts an in-depth look at the work of the late Chen Lok Lee, a multidisciplinary artist, printmaker, painter, and professor based in Philadelphia. His daughter, Romana Lee-Akiyama, will lead a panel discussion, to be followed by a live painting demonstration by Lok Lee apprentice and longtime friend S. Joon Thomas.
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The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation announced 14 projects to be funded as part of its call for proposals in March in support of Asian, Asian-American and Pacific Islander artists at Penn.
The projects include students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Six grantees are students, three are staff, two are alumni, one is faculty, and two others are recent alumni. Disciplines funded range from opera to children’s literature, film to mural arts.
“We felt that there were all of these issues locally and nationally around violence against Asian-American and Pacific Islanders, and we wanted to create this opportunity to support AAPI artists and practitioners in our community, to acknowledge their critical [contributions] to our creative community, and give them support to do work whether or not it was directly engaging these issues,” says Chloe Reison, associate director of The Sachs Program. “One thing we didn’t want to stipulate with these grant opportunities was that the p