Adapted/Adopted: Journeys of Asianx Women

ETSU Department of Art & Design and Slocumb Galleries in collaboration with Bravissima! women Sponsoring the Arts, ETSU Student Life & Enrollment, Division of Cross-Disciplinary Studies, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Tennessee Arts Commission present Adapted/Adopted: Journeys of Asianx Women Artists from November 2-21, 2023 at Tipton Gallery. The public is invited to view the exhibit and attend the opening reception with guests of honor ETSU Associate Provost Dr. Susan McCracken with TriStar Arts and Tennessee Triennial cofounders Carrie and Brian Jobe on November 3, first Friday from 6-8pm

The exhibit explores the creative processes that Asian American women artists employ as adaptation strategies after relocating to the United States. The American women artists featured through an exploration of identity and belonging with additional focus on the transnational adoption phenomenon of Asian descent to American families create amazing work that reconnect, reclaim and empower their new and hybrid identities after experiencing migration, adopted or refugee status.

The exhibit features artists Leticia Bajuyo, Nina Ghanbarzadeh, Tao Huang, Cindy Leung, Sisavanh's Phouthavong, Halide Salam, Nichole Schiller, Eun-Kyung Suh, Haley Takahashi, Jan-Ru Wan, Hong Zhang and AppalAsian poet Lisa Kwong with ETSu alumni storyteller Brooke Hornberger.

A public poetry reading with Lisa Kwong and ETSU Language & Literature poetry program is scheduled on November 8, Wednesday from 3-5pm at Tipton Gallery.

The Tipton Gallery is located at 126 Spring Street, Downtown Johnson City and open Thursdays and Fridays from 5-7pm as well as by appointment. Please email contrera@etsu.edu for more information.