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Asian Arts Initiative Records
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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
Founded in 1992, the Asian Arts Initiative (AAI) gave artistic voice to the diverse Asian community in Philadelphia and beyond. AAI began as an advisory committee at the Painted Bride Art Center and hosted Live Traditions/Contemporary Issues, the first Asian Arts Festival held in Philadelphia, in 1993.
Under the leadership of Gayle Isa, AAI grew into an independent art-based community center, incorporating in 1996. With its first home at 1315 Cherry Street, it developed long-standing programs that placed activism, social justice, and the Asian experience at the forefront, attracting artists from across the United States for residencies, teaching, performances, and talks. Through the Artists in Community Training (ACT) program, artists became teachers and community leaders. Young Philadelphians spent their summers and after school hours learning mural painting, video making, and creative and autobiographical writing in AAI's Youth Arts Workshop (YAW). Other programs like Chinatown IN/Flux and the Chinatown Oral History Project highlighted Philadelphia's Chinatown, commissioning art for the neighborhood and collecting oral histories from its residents.
AAI regularly collaborated with other local organizations, such as Asian Americans United and the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation, as well as other arts organizations, especially Mural Arts Philadelphia, the National Performers Network, Scribe Video Center, and the Asian American Film Festival.
The Asian Arts Initiative (AAI) records document the work of an arts and community organization in Philadelphia. Spanning the tenure of founding Director, Gayle Isa, the collection includes board, general administrative and financial records, offering insight into both the day-to-day work of running a community and arts organization as well as long-term strategy development. There are also planning and administrative materials for numerous AAI programs. In particular, there is documentation for AAI's Artists in Community Training (ACT), Chinatown IN/Flux exhibition, Chinatown Oral History Project (CTOH), and Youth Arts Workshop (YAW), as well as records related to collaborations with other arts organizations such as Mural Arts Philadelphia. All together, the records evidence a diverse Asian community in and around Philadelphia, with particular focus on Philadelphia's Chinatown neighborhood. Records documenting buildings and spaces occupied by AAI over twenty-five years demonstrate urban planning and development priorities of the City of Philadelphia and their impact on Chinatown. Of note are building records related to the displacement of AAI as a direct result of the Philadelphia Convention Center project in the early 2000s.
The collection consists of paper-based records as well as audiovisual and digital content. The audiovisual and digital materials include photographs, including jpg and tiff files, word processing documents, powerpoint presentations, as well as videos of workshops and performances. There are also recordings produced through the Chinatown Oral History Project.
The collection is arranged into 7 series as follows:
Series 1. Board records
Series 2. Administrative records
Series 3. Financial records
Series 4. Program records Sub-Series 4.1. Artists in Community Training (ACT) records Sub-Series 4.2. Chinatown IN/Flux records Sub-Series 4.3. Chinatown Oral History Project records Sub-Series 4.4. Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) records
Series 5. Subject or project files
Series 6. Printed materials, publications, and news clippings
Series 7. Photographs, negatives, and slides
Series 8: Website versions in Archive-It
Additions to this collection are expected. Websites are captured using Archive-It periodically, and the latest additions may not yet be included in this finding aid. For information on material–physical and digital, including captured websites–that may have been added since the last finding aid update, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.
Donated by the Asian Arts Initiative in 2018 and 2019.
Original audiovisual materials, as well as preservation and duplicating masters, may not be played. Researchers must consult use copies, or if none exist must pay for a use copy. Certain digital files may also be inaccessible. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
Paper based records in this collection were minimally processed in 2021-2022. The collection was arranged into series and subseries and is described to the folder level. Many folder titles are original, supplied by the creator. The collection was reboxed, folders in poor condition were replaced, and records were removed from binders. Audiovisual and digital records on storage media were not reviewed or transferred during processing. An inventory of storage media was generated using creator-provided label description. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
Finding aid prepared in June 2022 by Courtney Smerz, Collection Management Archivist, with assistance from Akaash Shukla, Aleana Masuda, Andre Eldred, and Causyl Larmie, student assistants.
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- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
- Finding Aid Author
- Courtney Smerz
- Finding Aid Date
- June 2022
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Collection is open for research, though restrictions apply. Portions of Series 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are closed for 75 years from date of creation due to the presence of Personally Identifiable Information. Restrictions are noted at the series and folder levels.
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The Asian Arts Initiative records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. The creator/donor has not assigned its rights to Temple University Libraries. Other creators' intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to them or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.
Collection Inventory
Series 1, Board records, include records of the Asian Arts Initiative Board of Directors from 1993 to 2012, including minutes, correspondence, manuals, and other related materials.
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Series 2, General administrative records, houses alphabetically arranged records relating to the day-to-day administration of the Asian Arts Initiative, including its buildings, committees, development, events, general operations, marketing, policy and procedures, staff and strategic planning. There are also chronologically arranged files of general correspondence or other records covering a wide range of topics filed at the end of the series.
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Series 3, Financial records, includes audit reports, budgets and other financial records. There are also two sets of grant files, each arranged alphabetically by funder.
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Series 4, Programs and project records, includes records of four of the Asian Arts Initiative's long standing programs and projects, each comprising its own sub-series: Sub-Series 4.1: Artists in Communities Training records, Sub-Series 4.2: Chinatown IN/Flux records, Sub-Series 4.3: Chinatown Oral History Project records, and Sub-Series 4.4: Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) records.
The programs are documented through paper based, audiovisual, and digital content. Audiovisual and digital content in this series is stored on a variety of formats including VHS, Mini DV, CDs, DVDs, floppy disks and others. It contains wide ranging content including video of performances, workshops, presentations and more related to AAI programming. The storage media was not reviewed during processing. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
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Sub-Series 4.1, Artists in Community Training, includes records for the AAI program Artists in Community Training. This program trained Asian American artists to teach and bring art directly into communities. ACT offered workshops on educational models and strategies as well as teaching experience and residencies for both visual and performing artists in schools and community settings. There are paper based, audiovisual, and digital content in this sub-series that are stored on a variety of storage formats as noted in the inventory. The storage media was not reviewed during processing. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
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Sub-Series 4.2, Chinatown In/Flux records, documents a community project that featured Asian American artists who created installation art projects around Chinatown. The program included an artist retreat and residencies, and culminated with a public exhibition. IN/Flux grew out of the Chinatown oral history project and aimed to highlight new immigration, changing ethnic demographics and the growth of Philadelphia's Chinatown. It also hoped to dispel the stereotype of Chinatown as an "exotic" or monolithic tourist destination. Featured artists include: Tomie Arai, Jean Shin, Steve Wong, Mei-Ling Hom, Skowman Hastanan, Hirokazu Kosaka, and Jihyun Park. There are paper based, audiovisual, and digital content in this sub-series that are stored on a variety of storage formats as noted in the inventory. The storage media was not reviewed during processing. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
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Sub-Series 4.3, Chinatown Oral History Project records, documents the CTOH, collected oral history interviews with people living or working in Chinatown. With financial support from the Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corporation, the project also developed a script for a Chinatown walking tour that featured information from the oral histories. Completed in two distinct phases, the project developed a website and the 2004 publication, "Chinatown Lives," which was edited by Lena Szu and featured photographs by Rodney Atienza. There are paper based, audiovisual, and digital content in this sub-series that are stored on a variety of storage formats as noted in the inventory. The storage media was not reviewed during processing. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
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Sub-Series 4.4, Youth Arts Workshop (YAW) records, includes correspondence and general administrative records that document nearly 20 years of this art focused after school and summer workshop program for youth in Philadelphia. Through its Generasian Next, Big Picture and other medium- specific arts programming, YAW empowered Asian and other Philadelphia youth to speak out and share their experience. Also documented in the sub-series are AAI partnerships with Asian American Youth Association, Mural Arts Philadelphia and Scribe Video Center, among others. There are paper based, audiovisual, and digital content in this sub-series that are stored on a variety of storage formats as noted in the inventory. The storage media was not reviewed during processing. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
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Series 5, Subject or project files, includes alphabetically arranged subject or project files. Topics include AAI's Artist Exchange and Artist in Residence programs, assorted organizations dedicated to the Asian American experience, files containing information about Chinatown, exhibit records, particular artists and their work, as well as gallery operations. There are also files about AAI's Guest Producer Program and Rap Series, as well as a few regarding the School District of Philadelphia.
The series includes paper based, audiovisual and digital content. The audiovisual and born digital content is stored on a variety of formats including VHS, Mini DV, CDs, DVDs, and floppy disks. It contains wide ranging content including video of performances, workshops, presentations and more related to AAI programming. The storage media was not reviewed during processing. Please contact the Special Collections Research Center for more information.
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Series 6, Printed materials, publications, and clippings, primarily includes fliers, postcards and other promotional materials and ephemera for AAI, its programs, and events arranged loosely in chronological order. There is a nearly full run of AAI's newsletter, exhibition catalogs and other publications related to anniversaries or particular programming. This series also includes collected newspaper clippings about AAI and its work, as well as about Chinatown and the broader Asian community. Some of the clippings are in Chinese.
Physical Description3.125 Linear Feet
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Series 7, Photographs, negatives and slides, primarily consists of snapshots taken during AAI programming and special events. There are accompanying 35 mm negatives for some photographs, as well as slides of programming and art made for presentation. There are also digital photographs stored on CDs or DVDs that are filed in other series throughout the collection.
Physical Description1.5 Linear Feet
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Series 8 contains preserved versions of the Asian Arts Initiative's website. To access these sites, see the Temple University Special Collections Urban Archives Archive-It web pagettps://www.archive-it.org/collections/4487
Physical Description1 Archived Websites