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2019 Sojourner Awardees
Helen Chin Schlichte Former public administrator and committed leader on community health and vitality
Yu-Sing Jung Renowned architect with many notable buildings in Boston and around the world
The early Chinese immigrant pioneers were typically sojourners–workers looking for a piece of the Gold Mountain to take back to China to help their families. Many faced conditions of racism, exclusion and economic exploitation, even as they helped transform America by building railroads, establishing fisheries, harvesting crops, and producing in factories. Our place today in this society rests, in part, on their legacy. It is in memory of their unrecognized struggles and profound contributions that we offer the Sojourner Award.
HOME TOWN Re-imaging Boston's Chinatown as a Place of People - Then and Now
On view through September 27
Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery
Bunker Hill Community College
250 New Rutherford Ave, Boston
Artist Talk
Tuesday, September 24 | 12:00
A300 Lobby and Art Gallery
Bunker Hill Community College
A multimedia exhibit by artist Wen-ti Tsen that explores the streets and public spaces of one of Boston's most dynamic and historic neighborhoods
Home Town originally placed life-size, cutout figures derived from century old archival photos occupy public places and street corners in Chinatown. Several photo stations compiled portraits of willing people in Chinatown for a community album. The figures and community photographs are on view together, completing the objective of the project in representing the complex humanity of the community, in history as well as in the present.
Watch artist Wen-ti Tsen talk more about the HOME TOWN project and process in a video by the New England Foundation for the Arts
HOME TOWN was funded by the New England Foundation for the Art/Creative City program. The exhibit is made possible through Bunker Hill Community College in collaboration with the Center for Equity and Cultural Wealth, One Book Project, BFS/ANNAPISI, Library & Learning Commons, and the International Center.
New Mural on Tyler Street 23 Tyler Street, Boston Chinatown
Have you seen artist Bryan Beyung's new mural on the side of 23 Tyler Street in Boston's Chinatown? CHSNE is proud of this exciting addition to the neighborhood's impressive collection of public art. For more information on the mural's symbolism, check out these articles in the Sampan Newspaper and World Journal.
Thank you to all the supporters who made this project possible, including Gee How Oak Tin Association of New England, the City of Boston and the Boston Department of Arts and Culture, Media Vision, Ming's Market, Oxford Properties, Hudson Group, Tufts Medical Center, Suffolk Construction, and Stanhope Garage. Photographs by Valerie Wong.
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