MOON SQUARE: After the Mooncakes
Asian American Arts Alliance (A4)
New York, New York 10013
Deadline
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Chinatown Arts Week (ChAW) follows the Mid-Autumn festival…and we all know what happens to mooncake tins after the mooncakes are eaten. They become treasure boxes of small things, memories, and preserver of wishes…see Hui Ma’s beautiful illustration of the mooncake tin as an Everyday Chinatown Story. This we wanted to celebrate this object through a participatory exhibition. In the space of a mooncake tin, lid on, lid off, using the box as a frame for an illustration, using the box as a space for sculpture, a space for ceramics?… we invite artists to express the spirit of the mooncake tin.
Works must use an actual mooncake box, one that has housed mooncakes in its lifetime
The mooncake box can be painted on, collaged in, be the space for small sculptural items, house illustrations, we’re open to how it’s used, but it must be within the space of the mooncake box
We are still confirming venues to exhibit the works, so we don’t know the exact number we’ll be able to exhibit physically.
All pieces submitted will be exhibited online
Photograph of submission is due October 14th at noon.
If selected, artist is responsible for bringing the piece to site and to pick up after the exhibit (if not sold)
Artists are invited to sell their piece at the price they choose, and we’d be grateful for a 30% proceed donation to T!C.
If you are interested in participating, please fill out the form below so we can get back to you about exhibition details. We’d love it if you could help us spread the word to other artists.