{"id":33882,"date":"2013-09-26T21:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T21:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33882"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:03:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:03:47","slug":"behind-the-curtain-race-is-common-theme-in-local-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33882","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Curtain | Race is common theme in local exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/citylivingseattle.com\/main.asp?SectionID=27&amp;SubSectionID=172&amp;ArticleID=89407\" target=\"_blank\">Behind the Curtain | Race is common theme in local exhibits<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citylivingseattle.com\" target=\"_blank\">City Living Seattle<\/a><br \/>\n2013-09-19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessica Davis<\/strong>, Columnist<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2000 Census, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington_(state)\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a> state ranks ninth in the country for interracial marriages. Overall, people of color make up more than 34 percent of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle<\/a> residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingrace.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">RACE: Are We So Different?<\/a>\u201d at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pacificsciencecenter.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Science Center<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wingluke.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience\u2019s<\/a> exhibit \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32645\" target=\"_blank\">War Baby\/Love Child<\/a>\u201d each take a different angle on racial themes and address some common misconceptions about race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of great work being done by all sizes of local arts and cultural groups around the topic of race,\u201d said Diana Johns, vice president of exhibits for Pacific Science Center. \u201cPacific Science Center is happy to be able to contribute to this continuum of broader community conversation alongside local institutions like the Wing.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;Different races, approaches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wing\u2019s exhibit \u201cWar Baby\/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art,\u201d curated by DePaul University associate professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Kina<\/a> and San Francisco State University associate professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsu.edu\/~aas\/dariotis-wei-ming.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wei Ming Dariotis<\/a>, includes works by 19 mixed-race artists and brings to light the different approaches to the identities and experiences of mixed Asian Americans and mixed Pacific Islander Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The project makes visible underrepresented histories with Asian-American studies, mixed-race studies and contemporary art. Through video, installation and other approaches, artists explore a range of topics, including multiculturalism, gender and sexual identity, citizenship and nationality, and transracial adoption.<\/p>\n<p>One such piece, \u201cGuardian,\u201d a painting at the entrance of the exhibit, gives a nod to creator <a href=\"http:\/\/eighthgeneration.com\/pages\/bio\" target=\"_blank\">Louie Gong\u2019s<\/a> Native and Chinese roots, with two <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foo_Dog_(disambiguation)\" target=\"_blank\">foo dogs<\/a> and three eagles stacked like a totem pole&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/citylivingseattle.com\/main.asp?SectionID=27&amp;SubSectionID=172&amp;ArticleID=89407\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the Curtain | Race is common theme in local exhibits City Living Seattle 2013-09-19 Jessica Davis, Columnist According to the 2000 Census, Washington state ranks ninth in the country for interracial marriages. Overall, people of color make up more than 34 percent of Seattle residents. \u201cRACE: Are We So Different?\u201d at the Pacific Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,8,20],"tags":[15944,15945,41,2077,5409,15943,42],"class_list":["post-33882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-city-living-seattle","tag-jessica-davis","tag-laura-kina","tag-louie-gong","tag-seattle","tag-washginton","tag-wei-ming-dariotis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882","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=33882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}