Call for Proposals: Fred Ho Fellowship 2025
Application Deadline: December 1, 2024
Asian Arts Initiative (AAI) seeks artists, activists, and collectives to be artist fellows during the 2025 exhibit, Fred Ho: We Wanted a Revolution, a survey exhibition on the life and career of Fred Ho (b.1957, d.2014). The exhibition will highlight Fred’s accomplishments as a jazz musician, a social activist who wove political activism into his musical career, and a community builder, who throughout his career actively asked the question, “what is Afro Asian community solidarity?”
Fred Ho Fellows will be asked to consider Fred Ho’s legacy as the inspiration for their projects/proposals: Ho combined music, dance, poetry, theatre, and performance of multi-media works that drew on traditional and contemporary aspects of Asian American culture and experience; Ho explored the relationship between music and social change; Ho sought to promote the unity of African Americans and Asian Americans in a myriad of forms, including political organization, cultural activism, artistic expression and cultural production. Continuing AAI’s dedication to building community through the power of art, Fred Ho Fellows will be asked to develop their projects/proposals during the course of their fellowship, in dialogue with AAI staff, with other Fred Ho Fellows, and with members of the general public. The intent of this iterative process is to foster conversation and collaboration through the duration of the exhibition. While allowing for more focus on relationship building as a process, this strategy, we hope, eliminates the pressure of producing a complete product for the Exhibition. This residency will allow for an ongoing exchange among collaborators. We encourage a diverse group of multidisciplinary artists and activists to join the experiment.