{"id":32263,"date":"2013-07-13T01:52:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32263"},"modified":"2015-01-21T20:33:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:33:44","slug":"qa-with-artist-and-author-laura-kina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32263","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A with artist and author Laura Kina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com\/2013\/07\/q-with-artist-and-author-laura-kina.html\" target=\"_blank\">Q&amp;A with artist and author Laura Kina<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Book Q&amp;As with Deborah Kalb<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-11<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109688143957917427377\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Deborah Kalb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Kina<\/a>, the Vincent de Paul associate professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University, is the co-editor of the new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/publications.html\"><em>War B<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/publications.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>aby\/Love Child: Mixed Race As<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/publications.html\"><em>ian American Art<\/em><\/a> and the co-curator of an accompanying art exhibit. She lives in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: How did you select these particular authors and artists to include in the book?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A: I\u2019m a visual artist, a painter, and much of my work has been about Asian American and mixed race identity and history. As a result, I\u2019m tapped into a network of artists, scholars, and activists working on similar topics. My co-editor <a href=\"http:\/\/wmdariotis.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wei Ming Dariotis<\/a> and I also teach classes on mixed race and Asian American studies so we were also both seeking out work by relevant artists and authors to share with our students.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually how we met. She was using my art in her classes at San Francisco State University and I was using her articles on \u201chapa\u201d mixed Asian American identity in my classes at DePaul University.<\/p>\n<p>The kernel for our book and the related traveling exhibition happened organically over several years of research and teaching and involvement with community multiracial organizations such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavinfoundation.org\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\">MAVIN<\/a> in Seattle and iPride and Hapa Issues Forum in San Francisco and then later working together with my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/las.depaul.edu\/lals\/People\/FacultyBiographies\/CamillaFojas.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Camilla Fojas<\/a> to found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticalmixedracestudies.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed Race Studies<\/a> biennial conference at DePaul University in Chicago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com\/2013\/07\/q-with-artist-and-author-laura-kina.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q&amp;A with artist and author Laura Kina Book Q&amp;As with Deborah Kalb 2013-07-11 Deborah Kalb Laura Kina, the Vincent de Paul associate professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University, is the co-editor of the new book War Baby\/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and the co-curator of an accompanying art exhibit. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,13743,8,20],"tags":[15157,15158,41],"class_list":["post-32263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-book-qas-with-deborah-kalb","tag-deborah-kalb","tag-laura-kina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}