WAR BABY / LOVE CHILD

MIXED RACE ASIAN AMERICAN ART

Panel Discussion
"Mixed Race Asian American Art and Identity"

Wednesday, May 29, 6 p.m.

DePaul University Art Museum
935 W. Fullerton Chicago, IL 60614
773-325-7506

Free and open to the public

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LAURA KINA is a Vincent DePaul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design and a member of the Global Asian Studies program at DePaul University. She is a studio artist and the coeditor and curator of War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art.

CAMILLA FOJAS is a Vincent DePaul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and a member of the Global Asian Studies program at DePaul University. She is the author of many books, including Pop Imperialism: Island Frontiers of the U.S. Imaginary.

DEBRA YEPA-PAPPAN is a Jemez Pueblo and Korean artist based in Chicago. Her "digital pop" artwork portrays contemporary Native people and interrogates American Indian stereotypes.

Born in 1983, the video artist CHRIS NAKA is a native of Chicago. His father is sansei (third-generation) and was born in the Manzanar Relocation Center, a Japanese American internment camp. His mother is a secular European American Jew. Naka earned his BFA in 2006 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Northwestern University in 2011.

This event is cosponsored by the Japanese American Service Committee, DePaul's Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity President's Diversity Series, and Latin American and Latino Studies.


War Baby / Love Child was curated by Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Professor of Art, Media and Design, and Wei Ming Dariotis, associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University.

A 304-page companion book has been published by the University of Washington Press and is available at the museum or from the publisher.

More information about the exhibition and related events can be found at
the DPAM website and www.warbabylovechild.com

Above: Debra Yepa-Pappan, "Live Long and Prosper (Spock was a Half-Breed)," digital print.

Major funding for this exhibition was awarded through The National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works.