May 17, 2025 ECO Art on Governors Island~ Stay Tuned~
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May 17, 2025 ECO Art on Governors Island~ Stay Tuned~ 〰️
Building bridges between communities, nationally and internationally through art and culture to deepen our senses of beauty, inspiration, and empathy.
We believe racial equality is an ultimate humanity to be pursued. The discussion should not be confined to only one voice, one direction. The source of our problems as well as the solution is to be found in the heart of the society in which we live and work
Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC), established in 2014, is committed to fostering awareness of Taiwanese-American art and supporting cultural exchanges. We are delighted to facilitate this connection and look forward to your response.
Season Close at TAAC House 7B, Nolan Park, Governors Island.
From blooming flowers to sweeping fall foliage, from island sunrise to sunset, we bid farewell to the "Island Sunrise" exhibition at TAAC House 7B, Nolan Park, Governors Island as we close for the season. We are deeply grateful to the friends who helped us with packing and cleaning during the challenging deinstallation, and to the wonderful artists who stayed with us until the very end. Many of these artists joined us throughout the spring, summer, and fall, and together we created lasting memories of 2024 on Governors Island.
Art as resistance, selected works of STEVEN BALOGH, exhibit at the 228 National Memorial Museum in Taipei City, TAIWAN. Opening celebration on December 07, 2024 2-5 pm.
Open from 12/07 2024 to 03/23 2025.
Tap on the photos to see the full images..
“Some masterpieces aren’t just art - they’re acts of rebellion, daring the world to confront beauty, power, end the raw edge of human emotion.”
Upcoming ~
Island Sunflower reflections
Island Sunflower Reflections to be exhibited at QCC Art Gallery/CUNY, Queens. From November 18, 2024 to February 2025. Venue QCC Art Gallery/CUNY https://artgallery.qcc.cuny.edu/about/
Exhibition dates: November 18th 2024 ~ February 28th, 2025 Opening reception: January 2025 (TBA)Curators: Luchia Meihua Lee, TAAC； Faustino Quintanilla, QCC Art Gallery/CUNY Participating artists: Pin-Hsin Chu 朱品馨Wen-Jen Deng 鄧文貞Chia-Hsuan 郭佳瑄Ming-Jer Kuo 郭明哲Tsung-Jung Liu 劉宗榮Island Sunrise TeamCarle ShiKacey Wong 黄國才
New Season will be start from May TAAC House 7B, Nolan Park, Governors Island. Thank you!
From blooming flowers to sweeping fall foliage, from Island sunrise to sunset, we bid farewell to the "Island Sunrise" exhibition at TAAC House 7B, Nolan Park, Governors Island as we close for the season. We are deeply grateful to the friends who helped us with packing and cleaning during the challenging installation and deinstallation, and to the wonderful artists who stayed with us until the very end. Many of these artists joined us throughout the spring, summer, and fall, and together we created lasting memories of 2024 on Governors Island.
Screening Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024, 14:00-16:10
Venue: Culture Center of TECO in New York
133-32 41 Road Flushing, NY 11355
Tel:718-886-7770 Ext.105 Fax:718-961-3303
Contact person: Mary 929-310-9451
Fee: Free to sign up
Agenda:
2:00 PM– 2:30 PM / Check-In, Refreshments
2:30 PM – 3:10 PM / Film Screening
3:10 PM – 3:40 PM / Q&A with Director and Panelists
3:40 PM - 4:10PM /Networking Session and Event Close
RSVP: https://shorturl.at/67ZYa
請於2024年10月23日之前報名，
聯絡人與電話：Mary 929-310-9451
或華僑文教中心：Tel: 718-886-7770 Ext. 105
SPECIAL SCREENING
STORIES FROM A COAL MINING TOWN – JINGTONG
BY Wei Jane Chir
PAST EVENTS:
The new exhibition opening reception: Saturday September 21, 2024. An performances and new exhibition opening reception.
2pm: “Traces” performance by Bipasha Hayat, Hayat makes marks on the stone as a visual representation of the marks created by humanity throughout time. The chiseling symbolizes the permanence of human marks and displays how they cannot be erased once marks are made through actions and words
A special multi-channel site-specific projection by Jeremiah Teipen, "Spatiotemporal Invaders" As a metaphor for our relationship to complex systems, biological or digital, this piece presents an immersive space between the physical and virtual, where pseudo-biological entities feed on information in crystalized forms, akin to crystal balls that allow one to see through time and space, only these crystallized forms are fractured, multifaceted digital media streams. The combination of these elements creates a game-like environment and illustrates communications beyond our consciousness.
“Tomorrow” series by Gao Yuan, a three-dimensional photographic essay about time.
Yin-Chen Chen, “The Black Earth,” a series of seven works
AND many other exquisite art works indoor and outdoor.
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Past event
Governors Island House Fest- Friday, Saturday and Sunday August 16, 17, and 18, 2024
More information about House Fest:
https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/events/house-fest-2024?fbclid=IwY2xjawEf_o1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUskL_29RjwG5jmq6T_lR5aI6DzzrE7BjgyTzBWcTDH8a9Eutxd-MmWf7Q_aem_fcZcj_f1IcawFB2qMOpe8Q
House 7b, Taiwanese American Arts Council | Governors Island (en-US) (govisland.com)
Don't miss the rare opportunity to view unique new media art works at house 7b, Nolan Park. New Media artists from Taiwan: Chin-Hsiang Hu/Peppercorns, Pey-Chwen Lin, Ching-Yi Chuang & Chun-Kai Yang, and more..
More information: https://conta.cc/3yibWax
Current programs:
exhibition: from July 19 to August 11
🌻Pey-Chwen Lin solo exhibition, “Eva Clone Babel I”, AR project
🌻Ching-Yi Chuang & Chun-Kai Yang, a special mapping projection"Gigantic Taiwan mobile Platform: Toward the path of Freedom"
🌻 Yu-Jei Yen: “Sitting on the Unsettling”, innovative fiber art
outdoor installation until end of October
🌻 Ching-Hsiang Hu/Peppercorns: “Between Mountains and Seas”
a large-scale transparent outdoor new media installation.
More at 7b:
· Room 2: Kevork Mourad “City Gate” installation and video projection.
· Room 3: Chia-Hsuan Kuo “Longing for Home” ceramic series
· Backroom: selected works reflecting Taiwan's Sunflower Movement, and other peoples’ movements around 2014 - namely Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, the Arab Spring, the Chilean Winter and Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity
· Porch installation: Gordian Knots by Chin-Chih Yang
· Outdoor installation: Jade Mountain by Chin-Chih Yang
· Outdoor planting sculptural installation “What and How are We Growing” by Atu Ram
Open Studios
· July 7b studio artists: Ching-Yi Chuang, Chun-Kai Yang, Ching-Hsiang Hu/Peppercorns, Chin-Chih Yang, Carle Shi, Huey-Min Chuang, Eun Young Choi, Ping-Hsin Chu, Chia-Hsuan Kuo, Gracy Wen, Atu Ram, Yung-Chieh Kao
newsletter https://conta.cc/4aRhyFW
Past Events:
Saturday June 1, 2024 1-4 pm Workshop and lectures
Session 1: 1:10pm Introduction to the 7b exhibition "Peoples' Movements" reflect the 5 world peoples’ movements around 2014 - namely Taiwan's Sunflower Movement, Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, the Arab Spring, the Chilean Winter and Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity.
Session 2: 1:20 - 2:50: Workshop and presentation subject: The Power of Art for Peace and Social Impact co-organized by the Shield Art Foundation
Session 3: Subject: Once upon a Time, Animals of Governors Island, a talk by international expert Dr. Mona Lung whose PhD. is in Philosophy of Science and Technology, on the subject Animals of Governors Island
From 4:00 to 4:30, people will be free to mingle and discuss the talks and other topics that may arise.
(drinks and snacks will be served.)
General Open Hour: 11 am -5pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday
TAAC is in the organizational residency at Governors Island with a multiethnic residency and various open houses and exhibition programs. From Island to Island programs start from May 5th to October 30, 2023
Taiwanese American Arts Council -TAAC (2023 Governors Island TAAC at House #7B, Nolan Park)
Meet the 2023 #GovIslandArts Organizations in Residence! From May through October 2023, this dynamic mix of arts, cultural, educational, and environmental organizations from all five boroughs will present free public programs, exhibitions, workshops, artist residencies, and more in the historic houses of Nolan Park and Colonels Row on Governors Island.
Presented through Governors Island Arts, the Trust for Governors Island’s signature arts and cultural program, the seasonal Organizations in Residence initiative annually invites nonprofits from across the city to present engaging public programs while providing workspace and artist residencies. The 25 nonprofits represented here reflect the incredible diversity of New York City and will bring hundreds of unique, free programs to the Island starting this spring. Learn more about the Organizations in Residence program and meet this year’s cohort at
https://www.govisland.com/.../trust-for-governors-island...residence-selected-for-2023-programming-season
In addition to the 25 selected organizations, NYU Gallatin WetLab and Cumbe: Center for African and Diaspora Dance will present free outdoor programs, classes, workshops, and events at different locations around the Island during the programming season.
NYC ART BRIDGE: Wellness through Art
September 8 to October 29 at house 7b, Nolan Park, Governors Island NYC ART BRIDGE - Exhibition section two will be display from September 8 to October 29 at TAAC House 7b on Nolan Park on Governors Island. NYC Art Bridge is a cross-disciplinary program in which psychiatrists and professional artists will help us promote mental wellness.
"NYC Art Bridge" at house 7b in Nolan Park on Governors Island has been included in the recommended venues for AACAP [American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry] international conference which will meet in midtown Manhattan October 23 to 28. The exhibition will start from September 8 to End of October.
Here is the link: https://lnkd.in/e_2h_9Qa.
2022 URBAN TRIBES series: From Urban Reverence to Urban Divergence
OPEN CALL for Jade Mountain paintings
OPEN CALL for Jade Mountain paintings - E. Sun Awards (畫家畫玉山）: Jade Mountain painting, first prizes up to US$ 36,000, open to Taiwanese & international artists
Tina Keng Gallery with 4 artists in the Frieze Art Fair, NYC (May 18-22) in The Shed
More information view the page link https://conta.cc/3wgAPyr
Artist to Watch
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Panel Discussion
This Saturday April 23 at Noon, Join us with the artist Eleen Lin, a Moby Dick expert Samuel Otter,from University of California at Berkeley, and Luchia Meihua Lee in this fun panel. It's open to the public.
2022 NYFA Hall of Fame
Honoring Taiwanese-American Performance artist CHIN CHIH YANG (楊金池）
TAAC 2022 Art in Focus - NFT Formosart Store
Enjoy Urban Reverence VIRTUAL TOUR !
Clink the link to view virtual tour of the exhibition:
Artist in Focus
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About TAAC
The Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC) fosters awareness of Taiwanese American art within the broader community by coordinating, sponsoring, and presenting high quality programs in all disciplines of art, and encourages cross cultural exchange between Taiwanese Americans and others. From 2014 to 2019, TAAC has organized and presented numerous multi-disciplinary arts programs, partnered with various art organizations, and utilized digital media to realize the goal of promoting Taiwanese American artists and art professionals in the US. TAAC hopes to build bridges between communities, nationally and internationally, through art and culture to deepen our senses of beauty, inspiration, and empathy.
2020 Programs
Urban Tribes 都會部落 2019-2021
2020 Special Exhibition
228 and Modern Chronicle —— "Song of Taiwan Youth": Poster Exhibition by KC
二二八與現代紀事——《台灣青年の歌》：氫酸鉀海報作品展
Image: Otome in Taiwan / Maid of the Governor's House 台灣乙女／總督府少女
The image of a Taiwanese aboriginal girl as a symbol of Taiwanese women; her garment is half kimono and half aboriginal. The building in the background, displaying Japanese architectural style of the time and hence consciousness of Taiwan's history and culture, is Taiwan's post-war presidential palace. (台灣乙女／總督府少女｜以著台灣原住民少女為形象，一邊著和服、一邊著原住民服飾來象徵台灣女性；背後的建築運用從日本時代的總督府到戰後的總統府為象徵，貫穿對台灣意識及歷史文化的傳承。
About artist KCN (氫酸鉀)
KCN was born Wu Hsuyao in 1972 in Beidou, Changhua county, Taiwan. He debuted as a cartoonist, with two cartoons, "Kirin the Beast" and "Journey to the West", and then turned to illustration and game art work. For a long time, Taiwan's pre-war history has been the main axis of his creation. His works have been popular with painters in Taiwan and Japan. Over the years, he made hundreds of artworks. KCN's grandfather was a renowned person in the village of Beidou, and was loved by the villagers for his integrity and affection.
KCN was deeply inspired by grandfather's teaching. After the ban on "Taiwanology" was lifted, KCN read many books about Taiwan's history. He deeply understood the social atmosphere before World War II and the special emotional ties between Taiwanese and Japanese. His illustrations were also based on the suppressed history and characters of the Japanese colonial era in Taiwan (1895-1945), and his enthusiasm has also inspired many people from all over the world, possibly because of the special historical and emotional bond between Taiwan and Japan. His works have great resonance in Japan and the world.。
https://www.228.org.tw/228museum_exhibition-view.php?ID=237 https://www.zeczec.com/projects/taiwanishin?r=k4163732510&fbclid=IwAR3C27Pw-gZKa3i8XLId65C--SEfv29T3_pWw1qfPlmiDHLesOhxEAut0fc
PAST Program
2019 Exhibition:
Chih-Hui Chuang : Coding & Decoding 莊志輝紐約個展「記。符號」
Opening reception: Thursday Oct 24, 6-8pm
Exhibition date: October 24 to November 15, 2019
TAAC Tribeca/E. TAY Gallery, 39 White Street, NYC
SAKULA OBSESSION: Chuang Chin-Lung 黃進龍
Opening: Thursday October 24, 2019 5-7 pm
October 24 – November 29, 2019
Pey-Chwen Lin: Eve Clone Augmented Reality 林珮淳：夏娃再製擴增實境
Opening Reception: Thursday September 26, 5-7 pm
September 20 – October 25, 2019
Venue: QCC Art Gallery/CUNY, Bayside, NYC
Discussion: An Archtecture for every place and no place
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RUR and TAAC sincerely invite you to join us for the gallery discussion An Architecture for Every Place and No Place in Particular on Thursday, October 10th, from 6:30-8pm. It will take place at TAAC Tribeca/ E.Tay Gallery (39 White Street, New York, NY 10013), as one of the exhibition events of Building Beyond Place.
Jesse Reiser will join fellow architect Stan Allen and architectural critic Jeff Kipnis to discuss the disciplinary possibilities and challenges of a cosmopolitan project in architecture today, an architecture that aspires to every place and no place in particular, following a presentation by Reiser on the exhibition Building Beyond Place. While prompted by specific projects, RUR’s Taipei Music Center, the Alishan Mount Railroad, and Kaohsiung Port Terminal, the discussion projects the vision beyond Taiwan onto broader architectural implications. Please RSVP by responding to this message. We look forward to your company!
A review from Observer (觀察家報) about our current exhibition- "Building Beyond Place: RUR Engages Taiwan’s Architectural Cosmopolitanism". The exhibition runs through October 17, don't miss this intriguing and professional exhibition. “Taiwan Embraces ‘Weird’ Building Boom With NYC’s RUR Architects at the Helm” by David D'arcy.
https://observer.com/…/rur-architects-taiwan-exhibition-tr…/
超越建築：RUR參與台灣的世界主義建築項目 [台北流行音樂中心, 高雄港埠旅運中心, 及地景系列—阿里山套裝旅遊路線] 還有10天的展期。千萬不要錯過這個獨特高品質的建築展。
Exhibition dates: September 19 to October 17
TAAC Tribeca/E. TAY Gallery, 39 White Street, NYC
https://observer.com/2019/09/rur-architects-taiwan-exhibition-tribeca-taipei-music-center/
Building Beyond Place: RUR Engages Taiwan’s Architectural Cosmopolitanism
超越建築：RUR參與台灣的世界主義建築項目
[台北流行音樂中心, 高雄港埠旅運中心, 及地景系列—阿里山套裝旅遊路線]
Opening Reception: Thursday September 19, 6-9pm
Exhibition dates: September 19 to October 17
TAAC Tribeca/E. TAY Gallery, 39 White Street, NYC
Urban Hakka Tribes: Hakka Artists from Hsinchu, Taiwan & New York
都會客家部落：台灣新⽵客家庄藝術家 V.S 紐約客家籍藝術家 交流展
Opening reception: Thursday Oct 3rd, 6-9pm
Exhibition date: September 28 to Oct 31, 2019
New York Foundation for the Arts-NYFA) http://nyfa.org
August 15, 2017, from 6 to 8 pm
El Taller Latino Americano: 215 E. 99th Street, New York City
Unveiling of a new, original piece by YUTIEN CHANG, to meet and greet Urban Tribes artists, and enjoy performances by violinist JOANNE LIN and dancer SAMMI TAI.
Curators: Luchia Meihua Lee, Jennifer Pliego
Urban Tribes-!: Urban Caravan Participating artists :
Miya ANDO, Steven BALOGH, Yutien CHANG, Ching-Yao CHEN, Jen-Pei CHENG, Andrea CORONIL, Che-Min HSAIO, Felipe GALINDO, Ming-Jer KUO, Pey-Chwen LIN, Yi-Chun LO, Lulu MENG, Kelly TSAI and Ryan Hartley SMITH, Yu-Chuan TSENG, Pei-Shih TU.
Urban Tribes I @ New York Foundation for the Arts, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York – still on view until Sept 12
LIGHT YEAR 51: WE THE PEOPLE
Curated by John Ensor Parker & Luchia Meihua Lee, Curator of the Taiwanese American Arts Council -TAAC
Exhibition date: American Independence Day, July 4th 2019
On July 4th, American Independence Day, Light Year will present their fifty-first consecutive exhibition on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage.
The United States is home to people of many different ethnic and cultural origins, who together compose this nation. Selected works are from artists who represent some of those varying ethnic and cultural backgrounds that collectively make America what it is. Conceptually the selected works address what it means to the artist to be part of the American experience.
The exhibition will be shown on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage and on the Light Year “Live Feed” online.
No audio will be included in the public presentation as the sounds of passers by, the subway trains overhead on the Manhattan Bridge and the nearby 4th of July fireworks will provide a live soundtrack. The online “Live Stream” will
have the original video audio track.
New American Voices
Ernesto Gonzalez
Kelly Tsai & Ryan Hartley Smith
Pei-Ling Ho
Felipe Galindo Feggo
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman
Chen Ching-Yao
LIGHT YEAR is an ongoing monthly public art video exhibition series presented by John Ensor Parker, Glowing Bulbs and the Leo Kuelbs Collection in partnership with the DUMBO
Improvement District and the NYC DOT. Originally created for the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in 2015, LIGHT YEAR has become an international project, with exhibitions in DUMBO on the First Thursday of every month and online via Live Feed. Since its launch, LIGHT YEAR has hosted the work of over 500 artists and curators from around the world.
For more information on Light Year visit our Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/lightyeararts/
The exhibition begins at dark and will run on a continuous loop until 10 PM
Pearl Street Triangle (Dumbo Improvement District)
URBAN TRIBES - 3rd opening
Opening reception: Thursday June 20, 6-8pm El Taller Latino Americano ([Address: 215 E 99th St., NYC (between 2nd Ave & 3rd Ave) subway: 6, Q, or W train to 96th St)
Chin Chih Yang's interactive performance "International Passport" will highlight the opening.
We are glad to see that the multiple urban tribes at El Taller Latino Americano are open-minded about Ching-Yao Chen's I ♥ NY series, and are happy to see it.
Urban Tribes addresses the many issues that are gathered under the movement of peoples in this global era, with specific reference to the groups of people found in city areas. Starting from the perspective of immigrants traveling to the US, it proceeds to the cultural experiences of those who have arrived and are trying to acclimate. Touching on the travails of dealing with one government or another, it also poses questions about values and identity.
http://taac-us.org
https://tallerlatino.org/current-exhibit
http://etaygalleries.com
https://current.nyfa.org/post/185084816733/event-urban-tribes-urban-caravan-exhibition
Urban Tribes - 2nd Opening
* Saturday June 8th 3-5 seminar, 6-8pm Opening Reception @ NYFA (20 Jay St, suite 740, Dumbo）
Come have a stimulating early summer weekend afternoon with us: Saturday June 8 from 3 to 5 pm artists/curators talk, followed at 6:00 pm by the exhibition opening reception at New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) at 20 Jay Street, DUMBO, NYC.
We have Yu-Chuan Tseng, Pey-Chwen Lin, Peishih Tu, and Jen-Pei Cheng flying over 14 hours from Taiwan to share with us their ideas and join us 6 New York artists (Felips, Andrea, Steven, Lulu, Chemin and Kelly) , 3 curators (Jennifer & Luchia & Alexandra) and Moderator: Mark Rossier. Expect this to be a knowledge and experience sharing moment!
Do not miss it!
都會部落
紐約藝術基金會New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 地址：20 Jay St, Suite 740, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
藝術家策展人會談：2019年6月8日（六） 3 pm ；
開幕酒會：2019年6月8日（六） 6-8 pm
展期：2019年6月8日 至9月12日
Chin-Chih Yang: Reclaiming the Vision 楊金池的視野
Opening: Thursday September 5th, 2019 from 5 to 7pm
Exhibition Dates: August 28-September 27, 2019
Venue: QCC Art Gallery/CUNY, Bayside, NYC
Urban Tribes, part I: Urban Caravan 都會部落 1-都會大篷車
At El Taller Latino Americano through September 15
At New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) through September 12.
LIGHT YEAR 53 Thursday September 5, 2019 8-10pm 光年 53 從人民到土地
Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, visible from Pearl Street near Water Street, DUMBO, NY
Participating Artists: Miya Ando(美夜), Ching-Yao Chen(陳擎耀), Jen-Pei Cheng (程仁珮), Pey-Chwen Lin（林珮淳,）Yu-Chuan Tseng(曾鈺涓)
Discourse about Urban Tribes cannot be confined to one public event. Come have a relaxing early summer weekend afternoon with us: Saturday June 8 from 3 to 5 pm artists/curators talk, followed at 6:00 pm by the opening reception at New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) at 20 Jay Street, DUMBO, NYC.
We have Yu-Chuan Tseng, Pey-Chwen Lin, Peishih Tu, and Jen-Pei Cheng flying over 14 hours from Taiwan to share with us their ideas and join us 8 New York artists. Expect this to be a knowledge and experience sharing moment! Do not miss it!
Urban Tribes I-Urban Caravan exhibition participating artists:
1. Miya ANDO 2. Steven BALOGH 3. Yutien CHANG 4. Ching-Yao CHEN 5. Jen-Pei CHENG 6. Andrea CORONIL 7. Felipe GALINDO8. Che-Min HSAIO 9. Ming-Jer KUO 10. Pey-Chwen LIN 11. Yi-Chun LO 12. Lulu MENG 13. Kelly TSAI & Ryan Hartley Smith 14. Yu-Chuan TSENG 15. Pei-Shih Tu
Curatorial team
Luchia Meihua Lee, Executive Director, Taiwanese American Arts Council, NYC (Chief Curator)
· Jennifer Pliego, Director of Special Programs and Head of the House of Art, El Taller Art Center, NYC
· Sarah Walko, Curator, Director of Education & Community Engagement, Visual Art Center of New Jersey
· John Ensor Parker, Light Year, NYC
Opening Reception Dates & Venues :
URBAN TRIBES I - Urban Caravan
* Saturday June 8th 3-5 seminar, 6-8pm Opening Reception @ NYFA (20 Jay St, suite 740, Dumbo）
* Thursday June 20th, 6-8pm @ El Taller Latino Americano（215 E 99th St., NYC)
* Thursday May 30th, 6-8pm TAAC Tribeca/R Gallery/E. Tay Gallery (39 White Street, NYC)
The subject of Urban Tribes is a portion of the urgent topic of the transnational movement of people in the era of globalization. A dilemma faced on many continents, it reveals the potential crisis in political, economic, and cultural arenas. From this wider subject, we focus in on cultural issues in the new community that has been created typically in the big city where inevitable impacts are compounded. “Tribe” applies to a wide group, defined by ethnicity, national origin, language, art work subjects etc.
Artists [alphabetically by SURNAME]
1. Miya ANDO 2. Steven BALOGH
3. Yutien Chang
4. Ching Yao CHEN
5. CHENG, Jen Pei
6. Andrea CORONIL
7. Felipe GALINDO
8. Chemin HSIAO
9. Mingjer KUO
10. Pey-Chwen LIN
11. Lulu Meng
12. Lo, Yi-Chuan
13. Kelly TSAI & Ryan Hartley SMITH
14. Yu-chuan TSENG
15. Pei Shih TU
URBAN TRIBES II: Urban Reverence
TAAC Tribeca/E. TAY/R Gallery: September 12-October 21, 2019 (opening reception Sep 12 6-8pm )
NYFA September 26-December 6th, (opening reception: September 26 6-8pm )
URBAN TRIBES II: Urban Reverence
Artists [alphabetically by SURNAME]
Reinhard Blank
Stephanie Cheung/Chengwen Lin
Yeh Fang ,
Diana Heise,
Sarah HAVILAND
Hiroshi JASHIKI
Alexander Khimushin
Walis LaBai (Dingwu WU)
Catherine Lan
Lee Wei
Jason Lujan
Eleng Luluan
Sarah Walko
J. Maya Luz
Herberto Turizzo Anaya
A 120-page book with essays and color plates will be published with the exhibition.
NYFA Joanne Y. Chen Fellowship for Taiwanese American Artists
Applications for the 2018-19 award cycle are being accepted through Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 11:59 PM EST
Awards Announced: July 2019 details and application: www.nyfa.org/fellowships
The Joanne Y. Chen Fellowship is awarded each year to a Taiwanese American artist living in New York State. Joanne Y. Chen (1949-2015) was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Jung-Chieh Kuo and wife of Taiwanese American Art Council President Dr. Lung Fong Chen. Born in Tainan, Taiwan, she was raised and educated in Japan, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the Sophia University in Tokyo, and a Master’s Degree in Sociology from New York University. Joanne Y. Chen was a supporter of the local community, a paragon of moral integrity, and a role model for Taiwanese Americans.
Guidelines and application for the award can be found at www.nyfa.org/fellowships To apply for the Joanne Y. Chen Fellowship, select the discipline in which you would like to apply; in the application you will see a question which says, "Are you eligible for the Joanne Chen Fellowship," check yes and then you will be prompted to give a brief explanation of your connection to Taiwan. All other aspects of the application are the same as for the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. The application closes on January 23, 2019.
Congratulations!!! Kelly Tsai, 2017 NYFA Joanne Y Chen Taiwanese American artist grantee.
It’s Happening! Celebrating 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks. October 2017 at Central Park
Taiwan Tribal Spirits Updated
Catherine Lan (Artistic Director/ Visual Art), Beverly Tu (Costume), Hang-Yu Liu (Dancer), Chieh Hsiung (Dancer), Yutien Chang (Performer/ Sculpture), Shuo-An Chen (Composer)
It’s Happening! Celebrating 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
East Pinetum (East 84th Street), Central Park (Right behind the Metropolitan Museum)
This year NYC Parks is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Art in the Parks program. Since its creation in 1967, Art in the Parks has featured over 2,000 works of art.
On Saturday, October 21, NYC Parks is transforming Central Park into a stage, museum, and art studio for a free day of public art to celebrate this milestone. Art lovers, families, and park-goers will be delighted by free art exhibits, performances, and hands-on art workshops in Central Park’s beautiful East Pinetum field.
The event will take place at the East Pinetum in Central Park. Enter at the East 84th Street Entrance at the East Drive, behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Over 100 artworks, workshops and performances will take place throughout the day. Some activities include:
• Taiwanese American Arts Council: Taiwan Tribal Spirits Updated
• Bronx Museum: Button-making based on Bronx public artworks
• Materials for the Arts: Reuse Sculpture Station
• Blythe Cain: Painting public artworks with natural pigments
• Kim Holleman: Trailer Park-let
• Sing for Hope: the city’s favorite pianos
• Amanda Long and Historic House Trust: Paper marbling workshop Change to Amanda Long and Historic House Trust: Paper marbling wishes
• Groundswell: Sketchbook Making
• United Photo Industries: Create a zine
• Urban Field Station: Write with a tree alphabet
• LMCC/Dances for a Variable Population: Dance workshop for all
• Art Built: What it means to be a global citizen
• City Arts, Inc: Pieces for Peace
• Dream Yard: Mosaic workshop with recyclable material
• Juanli Carrion: Spice portraits
• Art Students League: Origami and collage workshop
• Public Art Fund: Art-making workshop based on works of Ai Weiwei
• Limon Dance Company/ Bryant Park Corp: Modern dance workshop
• Daniele Frazier: Life-drawing class of a model in a polar bear costume
• Poetry Society of NY: One-on-One Poetry Experiences
• Art Production Fund: Art Sundae! Create a public art project with Elise Peterson
• Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance: Wind Chimes Made from Recyclables with Evelyn Suero
• Katya Grokhovsky: Slow Dance with Me
• Broadway Mall Association: Collaborative Clay Mural Making with Joy Brown
• The Moving Company performance with Tina Wang, Scynge Xing, Tamar Ettun
As NYC Parks’ public art program took shape in the 1960s, artistic events called “happenings” popped up in parks across the city. Blurring the line between art and everyday life, these fleeting performances combined sculpture, music, theater, dance, and poetry. They varied in size and sophistication, but always relied on audience participation.
NYC Parks’ 50th anniversary celebration "It’s Happening!" captures the same creative spirit with dynamic public artworks, hands-on workshops, and performances.
For more information about NYC Parks' Art in the Parks program, please visit http://nyc.gov/parks/art.
Summer Art Roses Party [Art Talk, Performance and Reception] 夏末午後藝術對談+表演
Saturday August 26, 2-5pm @ Pfizer building
Art historian: Shupei Lee (李書豆）from Tainan, Taiwan
Curator: Luchia Meihua Lee, executive director TAAC, NY
NY artists: Steven Balogh, Mingjer Kuo, Lulu Meng, Yutien Chang
Fully Loaded: curator: Yuan-Da Hsu; Artists from Tainan: Wan-Ting Wang, Jam Wu, Wei-Wen Fang, Huang-Ti Lin, Kuo-Chun Chiu, Yi-Min Huang
Yutien Chang is going to have a live performance to crash his painting; guess what you will witness given his ceramic sculptures.
Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11026 [1st floor, by door on Flushing Ave nearest Marcy]
Loaded Roses @Fully Loaded Tainan-New York
玫瑰上船 @《大船入港》2017臺南-紐約 系列
A new 18 foot painting of roses has just joined the Fully Loaded exhibition at Pfizer.
Steven Balogh, Loaded Roses, 2018. acrylic on canvas, 5'4" X 18 ' Loaded Roses，Loaded with dreams, love, fragrance, hopes, expectations, a broken beauty, and even death.
Fully Loaded Tainan - New York 2017
《大船入港》-2017 臺南-紐約 對飛計劃
Exchange residency program and exhibition
Opening Reception: Wednesday July 26, 2017 6-9pm
Venue: Pfizer Building, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206
[directions: https://goo.gl/maps/zr6WHVaTapC2]
“Fully loaded” references fishing boats returning to port heavily laden, and thus by extension the traditional livelihoods of an island people. It also alludes to the well-rounded culture of those inhabiting that island.
Like New Amsterdam, Tainan in the 17th century was an outpost of Dutch influence. While the Dutch colonized all of Taiwan from 1624 to 1662, their capital there was Tainan, and to this day several forts from that era survive in the city and memorialize Dutch sway. Dutch rule over New York stretched from 1609 to 1667. And like New York, Tainan is a port.
The various artists included in this exhibition reflect different aspects of the culture of Tainan or New York, generating snapshots growing out of life experience. In addition to the stresses mentioned below, they react to fissures between male and female, between Taoist folk religion on the one hand and science and technology on the other, and the ever-present strains between rural and urban life.
QCC Art Gallery/CUNY
March 16 - June 17, 2017
Participating 20 Artists: Taiwan: Chen Ching-Lin 陳景林, Chuang Hui-Lin 莊惠琳, Eleng Luluan 安聖惠(峨冷), Teresa Huang 黃麗絹, Huang Wen-Ying 黃文英, Huang Yen-Chao 黃彥超, Huang Yu-Chih 黃裕智, Wu Wen-Chi 吳汶錡, Yang Wei-Lin 楊偉林，Wen-Fu Yu 游文富。.NY； Steven Balogh, Hiroshi Jashiki (謝敷 宏), Ming Jer Kuo (郭明哲), Catherine Lan (藍巧茹), Lulu Meng (孟祥璐), John Ensor Parker, Sarah Walko , Poyen Wang (王博彥), Chin Chih YANG (楊金池)
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY
405 Klapper Hall, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367
www.gtmuseum.org t: 718.997.4747
April 6, 2017 – May 26, 2017
Participating 10 Artists: Taiwan: Chen Ching-Lin 陳景林, Hsu Wei-Hui 徐薇蕙, Teresa Huang 黃麗絹, Huang Mei-Hui 黃美惠, Huang Wen-Ying 黃文英, Pan Ping-Yu 潘娉玉, Wu Pei-Shan 吳佩珊, Wu Yun-Feng 巫雲鳳, Yang Wei-Lin 楊偉林，Wen-Fu Yu 游文富。.
EL Museo de Los Sures,Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
120 South 1st Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Between Bedford
Avenue and Berry Street) Brooklyn, NY 11249 t: 347-987-4626
April 18 - June 30, 2017
Participating 7 Artists: Steven Balogh, Hiroshi Jashiki (謝敷 宏), Ming Jer Kuo (郭明哲), Catherine Lan (藍巧茹), Lulu Meng (孟祥璐), Poyen Wang (王博彥), Chin Chih YANG (楊金池).
Major support for the exhibition is provided by: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, ROC. Taiwanese American Arts Council, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, QCC Art Gallery/CUNY, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College/ CUNY, El Museo de Los Sures.
Special Sponsorship is provided by China Airline
Additional support: Queens Council on the Arts, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Queens College/CUNY.
This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.
Special thanks to: Dr. Yulin Lee (Director, KMFA), Dr. Kenneth Howell (editor), Brita Helgesen (Museum Manager, GTM) and Elizabeth Hoy (Collections Curator and Manager, GTM), Lisa Scandaliato (Executive Coordinator, QCC Art Gallery), Alan Yu (Museum Manager, El Museo de Los Sures)
2017-January -NYFA Joanne Y. Chen Fellowship
NYFA-Joanne Y. Chen Fellowship for Taiwanese-American artists applying in Crafts/Sculpture, Digital/Electronic Arts, Nonfiction Literature, and Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts) Deadline: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 11:59 PM (EST).
go visit below link to get details.
http://current.nyfa.org/post/152648432578/apply-now-for-the-nyscanyfa-artist-fellowship
Best of luck with your application!
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships, offered in fifteen different disciplines over a three-year period, are $7,000 cash awards made to individual originating artists living and working in the state of New York for unrestricted use. NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships are not project grants but are intended to fund an artist’s vision or voice, regardless of the career stage of his or her artistic development.
2016
2016 March, We, TAAC, wrapped up the last THE MOMENT program, a beautiful outdoor exhibition in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. In May, we invited four New York guests to visit Taiwan; they are Dr. Amy Winter, Director/Chief Curator of the Godwin Ternbach Museum; Dr. Faustino Qinnatilla. Director of QCC Gallery, CUNY; Michael Royce, Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts; and Dr. Kenneth Howell, Senior editor.
The guests were guided to visit various cultural and art organizations, museums, artist studios， from north Taiwan to the south, and the towns on the east coast. These cities included Taipei, Nantou, Tainan, Chiayi, Kaohsiung, Taitung, and New Taipei City. They were invited to attend the inauguration ceremony of Taiwan's new National President Tsai Ing-Wen. Following the visit, there will be several collaboration projects forthcoming.
Dr. Amy Winter states “This trip was transformative. Taiwan is an amazing island of enlightened people who treasure community, creativity, and democracy. My thanks to Luchia(TAAC）understates my gratitude and appreciation.”
Light Year 2017: Passenger Moment April 6th, 2017
Light Year 24: Passenger Moment
Video Exhibition on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage
Anchorage Place & Pearl Street, Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, April 6th 2017, 7PM – 10PM
The exhibition will be presented via “Live Feed” online the day of the show and at the Fata Morgana Project Space Gallery in Berlin Thursday, April 6th, 7PM-10PM (local time)
Curated by Luchia Meihua Lee, Executive Director, Taiwanese American Arts Council
Participating Artists and video titles:
Meng Chih Chiang: A Stranger to Words
Jeremiah Teipen: Ice Cubes Melting in a Plastic Cup
Poyen Wang: A Fabricated Personal History
Chinchih Yang: Kill Me or Change
Rosalie Yu and Alon Chitayat: Skin Deep
About LIGHT YEAR:
LIGHT YEAR is an ongoing public art video projection project presented monthly on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage by John Ensor Parker, Leo Kuelbs & Glowing Bulbs (aka 3_Search) in collaboration with the DUMBO Business Improvement District and the NYC DOT. LIGHT YEAR has hosted the work of over 150 artists and curators from around the world.
2017
Ai and Sensui Calligraphy & Kyoto Culture @ Sunday, May 21st, 2017 1-5pm @ Queens Museum
http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/ai-and-sensui-calligraphy-kyoto-culture
Taiwanese Japanese Friendship Program:
Ai and Sensui Calligraphy & Kyoto Culture
Sunday, May 21st, 2017 1-5pm @ Queens Museum @ New York City Building, Flushing Meadow Corona Park
Organized by: Luchia Meihua Lee & Tomoko Kawamura
Kyoto, the imperial capital of Japan for over one thousand years, is not only famous for its interesting places but also its cultural depth. Many temples and shrines can be found in Kyoto, more than in the other cities of Japan, as well as many preserved Japanese buildings, and more people who still wear Kimonos. While it is a modern city, Kyoto retains the flavor of ancient Japan.
Ai Takaoka’s calligraphy performance has been presented in many shrines in Kyoto. Her traditional Japanese calligraphy action is an elegant and powerful performance of living brushwork.
Sensui Oikawa represents the 4th generation of a family of calligraphers, and has distinguished herself as a calligrapher. She received many important awards for her Japanese calligraphy, and exhibits internationally. She is also a skilled player of the Okoto, a traditional Japanese instrument.
Emi Kikuchi will present kimonos and discuss the finer points of kimono wearing and fashion. With dancer Akiko Tokuka, and models of Manami Noguchi, Mami Inari and Alisa Kikuchi.
Yael Archer-Modiano will play the modern music which is influence by shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese flute.
Kyoto Culture is a unique one-day cultural and art event. This program include three sections: Calligraphy, Music performance, Kimono and handicraft displaced. This one day activities that will make you experience Japanese culture, and Japanese traditions. ###
Schedule Details
1:40-2:00 pm (20 mins) * Japanese influenced modern flute (Yael Acher)-
2:00-2:30 *Kimono models (Emi Kikuchi/Akiko Tokuka/Manami Noguchi/ Alisa Kikuchi also walk around the lobby , 2:20 gradually move toward the 2nd floor
2:30-2:50 (20 minutes)
* Japanese koto music instrument and Calligraphy performance (Sensui Oikawa)
3:00 - 3:15 (10-15mins)* calligraphy performance (Ai Takaoka)
3:15 – 3:30 (15 mins) * Kimono, installation introduction and talk (Emi Kikuchi)
3:30- 3:50 (20 mins) * calligraphy/painting performance-two (Sensui Oikawa)
4:00-4:20(20 mins) * calligraphy performance –floor & body calligraphy performance (Ai Takaoka)
*Japanese influenced modern flute (Yael Acher)
4:30-4:40(10-15mins) Discussion time for audience to ask questions (Luchia and All)
Light Year 2017 Passenger Moment
April 6th, 2017
Curated by Luchia Meihua Lee
Participating Artists and video titles:
Meng Chih Chiang: A Stranger to Words
Jeremiah Teipen: Ice Cubes Melting in a Plastic Cup
Poyen Wang: A Fabricated Personal History
Chinchih Yang: Kill Me or Change
Rosalie Yu and Alon Chitayat: Skin Deep
Passenger Moment is a title which designates reacting to a system of thought that is based on life. As humans, we are confronted with a transitory existence that is relative to the world when we arrived. Included in this exhibit are five artists who use their personal experiences in life to expand the relationship between themselves and their subjects, and furthermore to express their concerns about the surroundings. This presentation is not to celebrate the beauty of nature or to praise the charming, romantic and magnificent. Instead of that, we investigate self and society. Poyen Wang in A Fabricated Personal History took faces of stranger children and transferred them to familiar yet alien faces. In doing so, he addresses the assimilation period to the new land or the new world. All various color skins are also present in this multi-cultural city and in the Skin Deep project sketched by Rosalie Yu and Alon Chitayat, where a wide variety of human faces appear in the running video that been painted in different colors. The dripping lines and colors show its spontaneous drawing texture and a cold, lifeless face as urban residents pass by. After learning the various languages, the letters and venues in another way turn to familiar or unfamiliar ways to connect people universally, as decoded by Meng Chih Chiang’s A Stranger to Words that intertwines lines and mingles them with letters. The turning shape takes the viewer to an illuminated and illusionary world. In our materials world, we take pride in rapid high-tech development, ignoring the harmful effect on the environment and our very lives. Overused consumer goods turn to be undecomposed chemical elements that fly around in Jeremiah Teipen’s Ice Cubes Melting in a Plastic Cup. Also, the 30,000 beverage cans – the number used by the average American in a lifetime - that drop onto Chinchih Yang’s head in Kill Me or Change remind us of the astonishing quantities of waste that we have created and that are so deleterious to the earth, the planet which we only recently have come to see as fragile. This view project in this light year is without doctrine, but a beautiful, creative, abstract image that indicates us as strangers to this world.
About LIGHT YEAR:
LIGHT YEAR is an ongoing public art video projection project presented monthly on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage by John Ensor Parker, Leo Kuelbs & Glowing Bulbs (aka 3_Search) in collaboration with the DUMBO Business Improvement District and the NYC DOT. LIGHT YEAR has hosted the work of over 150 artists and curators from around the world.
TAAC Art Benefit Gala
TAAC house 7b in Nolan Park on Governors Island
Open Hour: 11 am -5pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday
www. taac-us.org email: info@taac-us.org