Artists explore the image of mixed race Asian-Americans in DePaul exhibitPosted in Articles, Arts, Asian Diaspora, Media Archive, United States on 2013-04-20 00:11Z by Steven |
Artists explore the image of mixed race Asian-Americans in DePaul exhibit
Medill Reports, Chicago
2013-04-18
Medill Reports is written and produced by graduate journalism students at Northwestern University’s Medill school.
In college, Wei Ming Dariotis used to want a T-shirt with “war baby” on the front and “love child” on the back. That way whenever people asked her “what are you?” she could just point to the T-shirt and say, “take your pick.”
Now her imaginary T-shirt has turned into an actual exhibition. The “War Baby/Love Child” show at DePaul University features artworks from 19 contemporary artists, all of whom are of mixed heritage, meaning either they are mixed-raced or they are transracial adoptees.
“This is part of a beginning that people can see visually what it means to be mixed raced,” said Debra Yepa-Pappan, a Jemez Pueblo and Korean artist who lives in Chicago.
The title “War Baby/Love Child” comes from the experience Dariotis, co-curator and associate professor of Asian-American studies at San Francisco State University, had when she was young. When she said her mom is Chinese and her father is Greek /Swedish /English /Scottish /German /Pennsylvania Dutch, people would always ask, “did your parents meet in the war?”…
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