September Town Hall

For our September Town Hall, A4 gathers artists whose work preserves cultural traditions and ancestral knowledge.

Featured presenters include Mudang Jenn, a diaspora shaman, ritual performance artist, and teacher, who will discuss her experience bringing an ancient Korean folk religion to present-day audiences. We’ll also hear from Sabri Sundos, a Palestinian American painter and textile artist, who will present about his tatreez practice and his approach to community engagement.

Additionally, the evening will feature a line-up of brief pitches from the community. After the presentations, we’ll host a potluck meal, so please bring something to share; homemade or store bought items are welcome. A4 will provide drinks.

For those who would like to continue mingling after the event, we recommend The Binc or Henry St. Ale House near the venue.

This event is FREE and open to the public. We suggest a $5 donation to go towards keeping A4’s programs free. RSVP is required to attend and/or pitch, but you do not have to pitch to attend.

For pitching guidelines and other information about A4 Town Halls, please visit our FAQ. If you have additional questions, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org.

Accessibility: The building is ADA accessible with a front carriage door that opens completely. There is one ADA accessible restroom that is gender neutral.

If you need CART Transcription, ASL interpretation, large print, or any other accommodations for this event, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org at least one week before this event.

To keep everyone safe and healthy, if you are not feeling well, please stay at home. We will provide masks and hand sanitizer at check-in.

About Mudang Jenn
Mudang Jenn is a diaspora shaman, ritual performance artist, and teacher — a designer of thresholds, 굿 (gut) ceremony architect, and ritual tender whose work stands at the intersection of tradition, transformation, and the radical reimagining of spiritual space. A traditionally initiated mudang with deep roots in Korean shamanic lineage, she navigates the liminal terrain of diaspora, where memory, myth, and modernity converge.

She builds ceremonial architectures—part performance, part portal—that invite participants to cross thresholds into the unseen, to meet their spirits, and to remember their place in the lineage of all things. Each work blurs the boundaries between healing, art, and communal transformation, weaving grief and celebration, resistance and devotion, into acts that live beyond the moment of their making.

Jenn has shared her work at institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia Theological Seminary, Recess Art, Creative Time, The Nicholson Project, and Canal Projects NYC, and has been featured in HuffPost and Popdust. Through each threshold she opens, she invites us to step fully into the body of memory, the body of spirit, and the body of future myth. www.mudangjenn.com

About Sabri Sundos
Sabri Sundos is a Palestinian American painter and textile artist. Rooted in his personal experience being raised in the diaspora, Sundos explores themes of cultural identity, labor and time.

Through the merging of traditional craft and cultural iconography, his work emphasizes the importance of agency and human touch, highlighting the inherent tactile nature of art-making as a means of reclaiming and preserving heritage.

Sundos creates work that continues to foster dialogue around tradition, memory, and an undying hope for the future.

He is also the founder of Unibrow Sun, an organization focused on uplifting narratives of solidarity through art and education. www.samsundos.com

About Asia Art Archive in America
Asia Art Archive in America (AAAinA), founded in 2009, is an independently established and operated U.S. 501( c )(3) organization and the first overseas hub of Asia Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong.

AAA’s mission is to act as a catalyst for new ideas that enrich our understanding of the world through the collection, creation, and sharing of knowledge around recent art in and of Asia. By collecting, preserving, and making accessible information on contemporary art from and of Asia, AAAinA facilitates public understanding and specialized research, instigates dialogue and critical thinking, and seeks to raise awareness of and support for the activities of Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong.

To achieve this goal, AAAinA maintains a reading room in Brooklyn Heights which is open to the public free of charge and comprises over 5,000 monographs, exhibition catalogs, reference books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials. AAAinA also organizes a regular program of talks, screenings, workshops, participatory projects, and panels with artists, curators, critics, and scholars in the field.

About A4’s Town Hall
Town Hall is A4’s bi-monthly community gathering event that features presentations, pitches, and power networking over a potluck meal. We welcome artists of all disciplines, as well as arts organizations, to share upcoming projects, find collaborators, or discover new opportunities in a lively space.