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Verge Spring 2023 cover artwork and Featured article
Laura Kina’s 2019 painting “Ufushu Gajumaru (Giant Banyon Tree), Valley of Gangala, Okinawa, Japan” is on the front cover and her “Holding On” series is featured in an article by Ryan Buyco “Finding New Routes”: Visualizing an Oceanic Okinawa in Laura Kina’s Holding On (2019) in the Spring 2023 issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias.
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Ms. Magazine op-ed – “Anti-Trans Legislation to ‘Protect Children’ Harms LGBTQIA+ Youth—Both Now and in the Future”
Laura Kina is a 2022-23 Public Voices Op-Ed Project Fellow through DePaul University. On January 31, 2023, Ms. Magazine published her op-ed “Anti-Trans Legislation to ‘Protect Children’ Harms LGBTQIA+ Youth—Both Now and in the Future”
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Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes
The Virtual Asian American Art Museum launches “Word of Mouth: Asian American Artists Sharing Recipes” curated and illustrated by Laura Kina and Jave Yoshimoto. This online exhibition/cookbook began during the Spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and in response to the increased attention to anti-Asian violence.
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Public Voices OpEd Project Fellow
Laura Kina is a 2022-2023 Public Voices OpEd Project Fellow through DePaul University.
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Liminal Hymns: Identity In Between
Laura Kina’s portrait of Erin O’Brien are featured in “Liminal Hymns: Identity In Between” curated by Jo Mikesell at Core Gallery Nov 30-Dec 17, 2022 Exploring the identities of multiracial Asian diasporic artists and the complexities of existing in-between spaces, of simultaneously belonging and not belonging, and of chosen community.
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Fukki Qualia – Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum
Laura Kina’s artwork “Hajichi,” from the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum’s permanent collection, is featured in “Fukki Qualia: Collection Exhibition in the 50th Year from the Reversion of Okinawa to Japan” July 20, 2022-January 15, 2023.