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Sue Bell Yank, Former AAI Consultant, Featured in Hyperallergic

AAI in the News
10.08.2020
Sue Bell Yank, Deputy Director of 18th Street Arts, is leading amazing social practice art initiatives in Santa Monica, CA. Learn about Sue's upcoming projects at 18th Street as well as the progression of her artistic practice, which began in Philadelphia. Article by Elisa Wouk Almino for...
Sue Bell Yank wears a cobalt blue dress and stands in front of navy blue wall.

Asian Arts Initiative Raises Money for USPS with Pen Pals Project

AAI in the News
10.02.2020
Read about how we adjusted our AAI pen pals program to support the USPS in this article by Alice Heyeh for 34th Street.
A white USPS logo overlays three AAI postcards.

The Uncertainty Mindset

Featured Writing
9.29.2020
I love a big, juicy "five dollar" word. I daresay I'm even a fan of jargon, if sometimes just as an outdated cultural artifact (“tech disruption” anyone? bahaha). Being a word nerd was a little rough as a kid, but later I’d be criticized for coming off as condescending, which is harder to hear than...

Asian Arts Initiative Raises Money for USPS with Pen Pals Project

9.29.2020
"As USPS faces pressure to perform amid financial constraints, this project merges art activism with the need for communication to buoy the social service. " Read more at 34th Street Magazine.
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The 2020 National Book Awards Longlist: Translated Literature

AAI in the News
9.17.2020
The judges for the category this year are Heather Cleary, whose translation of “Comemadre,” by Roque Larraquy, was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Anne Ishii, the executive director of Asian Arts Initiative; John Darnielle, the leader of the Mountain Goats, whose novel “Wolf in White...
Illustration by Daniel Liévano as originally seen on The New Yorker website. Illustration of an outline of a person speaking into a book which transmits to another book and into another outline of a person listening to convey translated writing.

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