• Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos Book Tour

    Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos Book Tour

    Hawaii book tour August 17-Sept 1, 2019. Join author Lee A. Tonouchi and illustrator Laura Kina for their book tour of “Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos.”

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  • New Editions: Into the FLXST

    New Editions: Into the FLXST

    On June 12, 2019, a slightly cold and drizzly evening, FLXST Contemporary officially opened to the public and welcomed a fantastic group of art lovers to our new space for our first show: “New Editions: Into the FLXST.” Founder and creative director Jan Christian Bernabe worked with nine emerging artists, about half local to Chicago,…

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  • Joan Mitchell Artist-In-Resident Community Coffee and Open Studio

    Joan Mitchell Artist-In-Resident Community Coffee and Open Studio

    Laura Kina is an Artist-In-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans June 17-July 26, 2019. Come visit her in the studio on June 26, July 17, July 25 when the space will be open to the public.

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  • Visual Asian American Art Museum

    Visual Asian American Art Museum

    May 7, 2019, 11:15-12:30 DePaul University Richardson Library, 207 “Under the Hood” with Alexandra Chang and Laura Kina Developing Cross-Institutional Digital Humanities Projects: The Virtual Asian American Museum. StudioCHI will host Laura Kina of DePaul and Alexandra Chang of NYU for a talk about The Virtual Asian American Art Museum. This one of kind digital…

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  • Art Asia Pacific: 113

    Art Asia Pacific: 113

    Laura Kina’s Dispatch on Chicago’s art scene is in the May/June 2019 print issue of ArtAsiaPacific with shout outs to Debra Yepa-Pappan, Janet Dees, 3Arts, Threewalls, Chicago Artists Coalition, Rebirth Garments, Love & Struggle Photos, Aram Han Sifuentes, Huong Ngo, DePaul Art Museum, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, 4th Ward Project Space, Alejandro T. Acierto, boundary, Larry…

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  • Federal Project No. 2 – Re-Examining America

    Federal Project No. 2 – Re-Examining America

    Laura Kina was one of fifty American artists invited by Topic magazine to make new work for the Federal Project No. 2- Re-examining America, which asked artists to look back at projects created during the New Deal, and make work that reflects the United States. Kina selected Yasuo Kuniyoshi for inspiration and created 6 new…

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