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Cover Image - "Devon Avenue Sampler", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Laura Kina "Devon Avenue Sampler" acrylic on fabric, 53x77", 2009. To view the cover and learn about Cathy's book see: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2113_reg.html To see the Devon Avenue Sampler series: http://www.laurakina.com/devon.html

Complete Newspaper, Magazine, Tv, Radio, Podcast, And Blog Press Coverage, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Visit the artist website for a comprehensive list of popular press coverage from 2002-present: http://www.laurakina.com/press.html

Art Work - “Loving: Elena Rubin” And “Loving: Shoshanna Weinberger”, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

OTHER TONGUES: MIXED-RACE WOMEN SPEAK OUT is an anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the center, rather than periphery, of analysis.

Exhibition Essay And Retrospective - "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Larry Lee. “Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing.” Foundation for Asian American Independent Media 15th Annual Asian American Showcase catalogue. 2010. April 2 - May 30, 2010 Gene Siskel Film Center A retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as wellas some early and new works on exhibit for the first time. Kina's art collectively embraces "ikigai" or the Japanese belief of "a sense of life worth living" and reflects her "postcolonial pop aesthetic" as a multiracial Okinawan Jewish artist/educator/scholar living in a South …

Cover Image And Featured Artist - Zeek: A Jewish Journal Of Thought And Culture, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Kina, Laura “Sugar.” ZEEK: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. Winter 2010. Cover image and p.62-65.

Art Series - Sugar, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Set during the 1920’s-1940’s, Laura Kina’s SUGAR paintings (2010-present) recall obake ghost stories and feature Japanese and Okinawan picture brides turned machete carrying sugar cane plantation field laborers on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kina’s paintings take us into a beautiful yet grueling world of manual labor, cane field fires and flumes. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/sugar.html

Art Work - "The Kina Aronsons" In Sh'ma: A Journal Of Jewish Responsibility, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

"The Refrigerator Door." Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility. No. 39 Vo. 661. June 2009: 9. Featuring "The Kina Aronsons" (2001, acrylic and collage on canvas, 62 x 28 1/2 in.)

Art Series - Devon Avenue Sampler, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Devon Avenue Sampler (2009-2011) is a portrait of a diasporic South Asian/Jewish community in Chicago, IL. This textile series, which uses indigo dye and khadi fabric, was hand embroidered by artisans from a fair trade women’s organization in Mumbai, India. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/devon.html

Featured Artist - "The New Authentics: Artists Of The Post-Jewish Generation", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Boris, Staci and Sarah Giller Nelson. The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation. Chicago, IL: Spertus Press, 2007: 40-41 and 91-95. (catalogue)

"The New Authentics" are twenty-first century American Jews. Curated by Spertus Museum Senior Curator Staci Boris, the exhibit and this accompanying catalogue, The New Authentics, explores contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States. Engaged in the global art community, these artists insert traces of, consciously draw from, or directly address their experiences as Jews, and they are brought together here for the first time in a Jewish context. …

"Mixed Heritage Art", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

"Mixed Heritage Art."Mixed Heritage Center. December 2007 . (essay) An introductory overview essay for the Mixed Heritage Center Arts section.

Art Series - Aloha Dreams, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Aloha Dreams (2007) In this mixed media painting series and installation, Kina examines her Orientalist impulse for heritage tourism. Looking nostalgically at her family’s history as Okinawan sugar cane plantation workers on the Big Island of Hawaii, she ultimately finds herself through mediated pop images of paradise and in the very real space of a Midwestern Vietnamese nail salon. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/aloha.html

Art Series - Loving, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Loving (2006) Inspired by the 1967 Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that overturned this nation’s last anti-miscegenation law, Kina examines issues of color in black and white. Kina drew life-size charcoal portraits of ten “Bi-Racial Baby Boomers” as representative of the larger mixed race community and movement in the United States. To view series: http://www.laurakina.com/artwork.html

Art Series - Hapa Soap Opera, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Hapa Soap Opera (2003) There’s romance in the air in these love triangles featuring an all hapa cast. Drawing inspiration from Bollywood movie posters, Kina painted large-scale portraits of mixed Asian Americans from across the United States. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/hapa.html