ART: inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE art exhibition, artist talks and workshops begin this month at RedLine

inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE

Art Exhibit, Public Lecture & Workshop on Asian America September 10 - October 10, 2021

RedLine Contemporary Art Center, 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver

inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE, a public humanities project on Asian America, consists of an art exhibition, artist talks, public lectures, and community-building workshops. The theme inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE captures the struggles of Asians and Asian Americans to survive and thrive in the face of strong anti-Asian sentiment. Asians and Asian Americans are alternately made invisible and hypervisible through stereotypes such as “model minorities,” “honorary whites,” “perpetual foreigners,” and “enemy aliens.” Yet, Asian America is remarkably complex due to cultural diversity, various migration routes, and different socioeconomic circumstances. inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE will showcase Asian and Asian American artists, scholars, performers, and community organizers from different ethnic, gender, and geographic backgrounds.

inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE will feature works by: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Yikui (Coy) Gu, Tsogo Mijid, Sammy Seung-min Lee, Yong Soon Min, Renluka Maharaj, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Suchitra Mattai, Scott Tsuchitani, Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza, and Joo Yeon Woo.

Public lectures will help place the exhibition within a social, cultural, and political context. A panel on Asian American feminism will feature Dr. Nami Kim (Professor of Religious Studies, Spelman College), and Dr. K Christine Pae (Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s and Gender Studies, Denison University). In addition to educating the public, inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE aims to build community. It will offer workshops by partnering with Denver-based Community Organizing for Radical Empathy and Asian Roundtable of Colorado.

RedLine Contemporary Art Center is a nonprofit that fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change. It is open to the public from 11am to 5pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Admission is FREE, with a suggested donation of $5 for adults, $3 for students and youth. There is limited private parking with one handicap accessible space, and free street parking. inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE is curated by Boram Jeong, Boyung Lee, Sammy Lee, and Chad Shomura. Contact the curatorial committee at invisible.hypervisible@gmail.com or visit www.redlineart.org/invisible-hypervisible.

Scott Tsuchitani Suchitra Mattai Tsogo Mijid

By GILLIAN SZE Illustrated by MICHELLE LEE

Hardcover | $16.99 Published by Philomel Books 32 Pages | 4-8 years Gillian Sze (gilliansze.com) is the author of multiple poetry collections, as well as a bedtime story for children (The Night is Deep and Wide). She studied creative writing at Concordia University and received a PhD in études anglaises from Université de Montréal. Originally from Winnipeg, Gillian now lives with her family in Montreal, where she teaches creative writing and literature. Follow Gillian on Twitter and Instagram @gilliansze.

Michelle Lee (mklillustration.com) studied printmaking and biology at UC Berkeley and earned her MS in education at the University of Pennsylvania while working as a K-8 science teacher. When not illustrating picture books, Michelle works as a freelance illustrator/designer and maintains a children’s clothing line she co-founded. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. Follow Michelle on Instagram @fromthebear.

CHiLDREN’S BOOKS

Warm like tea? Sweeter than red dates? A mother shares her love for her child as the two prepare a delicious meal together.

What is love? a child wonders. What does it feel like, smell like, taste like? How does it move? How long does it last?

And as she prepares a traditional Chinese meal for her family, the child’s mother replies: her love for him is rosy as wolfberries, warm like tea, sweeter than the red dates she puts in his soup. It shines through the water like its own brilliant sun. It goes round and round with no beginning and no end. Because a mother’s love for a child is always there, warm and soft, broad and tender.

In this tender story that pairs beautifully poetic words with brilliantly stunning art, a mother’s love comes alive on the page and wraps readers in its warm embrace.

I Dream of Popo

By LIVIA BLACKBURNE | Illustrated by: JULIA KUO When a young girl and her family emigrate from Taiwan to America, she leaves behind her beloved popo, her grandmother. She misses her popo every day, but even if their visits are fleeting, their love is ever true and strong.

This delicate, emotionally rich picture book celebrates a special connection that crosses time zones and oceans as Popo and her granddaughter hold each other in their hearts forever.

I dream with Popo as she rocks me in her arms. I wave at Popo before I board my flight. I talk to Popo from across the sea. I tell Popo about my adventures.

Chinese-American Livia Blackburne is a New York Times bestselling author who wrote her first novel while researching the neuroscience of reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Midnight Thief (An Indies Introduce New Voices selection) and Rosemarked (A YALSA Teens Top Ten nominee). Hardcover | $18.99 Published by Roaring Brook Press 40 Pages | 4-8 years

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Shout out to the bubble tea shops that have “popped” up recently! Pun intended! We can’t wait to try all these beverages across town. Congrats to all of the business owners and staff!

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