Slide from Margo Machida's talk "Asian American Art, Activism, and the Transnational Turn"

For decades, Manhattan’s Chinatown has been a home for socially engaged art movements and collectives. In this critical moment of arts organizing, both against injustices in the art world and towards larger political questions like gentrification and immigration, this historical archive is vital. This program documented a series of presentations and a group discussion on the history of Asian American art collectives in New York, from the seventies to the present.

This image is a slide from the talk by Margo Machida, Professor Emeritus of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut and a founding member of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, outlining the rise of an Asian American arts movement and the turn toward transnationalism.