Creative Impact: Artists in Action
6:30 – 8:30PM
How can art inspire the change we want to see in the world? Join A4 for a celebration of 2026 What Can We Do? artist awardees and how their projects contributed to their communities.
We’ll listen to presentations from more than 20 artists who received $1,500 stipends from A4 to carry out creative projects showing care to the AAPI across New York. View the full list of artists and their projects on our website. Many artists collaborated with and/or tailored projects for the constituents of community-based organizations including Chatham Square Public Library, University Settlement, Hamilton-Madison House, Glow Cultural Center, Queens Botanical Garden, and YWCA Queens.
Examples include:
- Broken China (Tao Leigh Goffe & Cecile Chong) led an interactive program in collaboration with the Boys Club of New York in Flushing to invite young boys to explore Afro-Asian-Latine ideas of masculinity through film, dialogue, calligraphy, music, and more.
- The Y. Orosa Literary Society (Angelique Molina & Kathleen Villanueva) hosted events to build cross-cultural solidarities in Chinatown, Manhattan. Monthly kwentuhan (community conversations) and likhaan (book discussions) addressed issues affecting communities and share resources.
- Artist Nikita Shah offered workshops in which participants create story-cloths using Kalamkari: a 3,000-year-old craft with bamboo pens and natural dyes, alongside domestic embroidery traditions of Gujarat and Sindh.
Light refreshments will be served.
This event is FREE and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
Accessibility: The building is ADA compliant. Please find additional accessibility notes here. If you need ASL interpretation, large print, or any other accommodations for this event, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org at least one week before the event.
This program is presented by A4 and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Special thanks to Council Members Christopher Marte and Sandra Ung. Programs serving cross-cultural solidarity and the Palestinian community are funded through a grant from the Ford Foundation for Social Justice.