Slide from Ryan Lee Wong's talk "Asian American Arts in New York Collectives and Collaboration"

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 writer and cultural organizer Ryan Lee Wong, who has been conducting research on Asian American artist collective histories. Wong introduced the program and presented an overview of Asian American arts collectives from Godzilla to the present.