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exhibition with large sculpture
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Moe Wakai
Kim Garcia, "What you can never fully hold," 2025

How artistic research preserves cultural memory and care

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book cover art of many Asian men coming out of a door down a rainbow
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Top Shelf Productions
Book cover art for “It Rhymes with Takei,” illustrated by Harmony Becker

Star Trek actor George Takei and coming out in 2005
man with grey and black shoulder length hair and tattoos on his arms
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Jeff Liang
Artist and professor Kip Fulbeck creates spaces for people to define themselves and be seen as they are.

What does it mean to be ‘Hapa?’ Artist Kip Fulbeck reflects on 25-year identity project
man of East Asian descent in stadium with dramatic light
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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium

In Sameer Pandya’s ‘Our Beautiful Boys,’ teenage secrets are the dark heart of suburbia
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Hương Ngô, detail, "Bestouan 5/12/18"

Generational memory and labor, Southeast Asian refugee experience, in new Hương Ngô exhibition
portrait in black and white of possibly Asian American woman with red dots in background
Chiho Harazaki, Shippo, detail, 2023

‘Positive Exposure: SoCal Asian American Art' exhibit features UCSB grad student and alumni artists
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Pioneering author of Asian American literature to speak at Multicultural Center
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Asian American artist-in-residency program debuts with film screening and workshops
Stop Asian Hate fortune cookie street art
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Michelle Bell
Michelle Bell, Chinatown Live

Asian American studies launches interdisciplinary Ph.D. emphasis
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Anti-hate event draws local and national AAPI activists to Multicultural Center

Race, Global Migration and Precarity

‘An Activist-Scholar Project’

Exploring Diaspora
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