Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA)
I was the 2019 Artist of the Year for CAPA and created a 24” x 36” poster of AAPI heroes for their 40th annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) festival in Chinatown, New York. The poster features twenty hand-drawn colored pencil portraits of AAPIs in the creative, science, political, and activist spaces. Names for each of the portraits can be found below.
The poster was used as street signs to promote the festival, on name tags of CAPA staff, and was displayed during a press event in the heart of Chinatown.
Names of portraits from left to right, top to bottom:
Mindy Kaling, Bruce Lee.Maxine Hong Kingston, IM Pei, Yuri Kochiyama
Steven Chu, Constance Qu, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chi Chia Wei, Ronald Takaki
Helen Zia, Ali Wong, Larry Itliong, Ai Wei Wei, Neal Katyal
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Awkwafina, Min Chueh Chang, Anna May Wong, Grace Lee Boggs