Public Trust →

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Ramirez Jonas, working with Boston performers, will present a billboard of constantly changing pledges – yours, mine, scientists’, and those of our presidential candidates.  Together we’ll be making a piece of art about promises, those contracts we with make with each other and with ourselves, and the potent speech acts that keep a society together.

Precious Places →

Precious Places Community History Project is a community oral history project inviting members of Philadelphia’s many neighborhoods to document the buildings, public spaces, parks, landmarks and other sites that hold the memories of our communities and define where we live. Unlike oral history projects in other cities, Precious Places teaches the video production process to participating groups, fostering projects authored by those who intimately know the featured neighborhoods.

China Town Art Brigade →

In 2015, artists Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong and Betty Yu formed the Chinatown Art Brigade (CAB) a cultural collective that recognizes the power of art to advance social justice.  As Asian American social justice minded artists, cultural workers and media makers they have roots in activism and movement-building work. We believe that art, culture and media work must serve and advance these social justice movements.


The Chinatown Art Brigade will be working closely with the Chinatown Tenants Union and CAAAV staff to launch “Here to Stay” a public art project that will address themes of gentrification and displacement in NY Chinatown. Artwork will be produced in workshops at the CAAAV offices in the spring and summer of 2016. Stay tuned for more news!