API Creative CommunityCivil Art empowers artists, creatives, and scholars by generating written records of their cultural achievements. By capturing these stories with care and promoting them via digital and physical platforms, Civil Art enhances the accessibility, identification, and legibility of community histories and voices.
Civil Art provides a unique publication platform, archiving the thoughts of the API Creative Community.
Civil Art increases the API Creative Community’s outreach, impact, and access to professional opportunities by making their creative practices approachable to a wider demographic.
Civil Art combats the misappropriation and erasure of API histories, heritages, and cultures by documenting the diverse experiences of the API arts community.
The Need for Support for the API Creative Community
“There are just so many incredible contributions that Asian Americans have made to every aspect of our culture, from politics to the landscape of our monuments and cities… There’s a lack of knowledge because Asian American history is not taught in schools.”
“The Lack of Asian American representation in the larger art world economy has certainly impacted what and how knowledge about it has been produced and disseminated – if art objects are not available on the market or within museum collections it is difficult to know what actually exists”
“The critic thus has a certain power of determination over art history, or at least great influence in creating the canon of art, as is evident, for example, in the naming by critics of many modern movements and in the “basic understanding” of the ostensibly incomprehensible, unconventional artists who initiated them.”