In 2013, exiled Burmese artist Chaw Ei Thein gave a performance in New York City. She used her own body to display torture positions that political prisoners experience in her home country of Burma/Myanmar. During the Q&A that followed, she said that she found the torture positions “kind of beautiful…” and was quickly ushered off-stage as members...

The show about Asian American and Pacific Islander families first airs on May 23.

His work has also been prominently featured at the Palm Springs Art Museum and currently at UC Davis’s Gorman Museum of Native American Art.

Cinthya Martinez was awarded $70,000 to support research she has been conducting since 2016.

Edward Chang, founding director of the Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies, received the award