Noguchi Museum Celebrates Emerging AAPI Artists, Contest Finalists

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — An event at Long Island City's Noguchi Museum will celebrate the work of local Asian American and Pacific Islanders artists.

Noguchi Museum will dedicate the evening of July 18 to the finalists of the 2022 Open Call for Artists Banners project, which was created for emerging AAPI artists based in New York City to display their work on the museum's outdoor banner.

The three finalists for the 2022 Open Call for Artists Banners project were Cui Fei, Dione Lee, and June Shin, who won the contest.

The event will take place on Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The celebration will feature a meditative percussion piece by Hisham Akira Bharoocha, tours of the museum, and art-making activities inspired by the theme of peace.

Shin is a designer based in New York City who migrated from Seoul. Previous designs include typefaces at Occupant Fonts, a Morisawa company, and teaching typography at Rhode Island School of Design.

Fei was born in Jinan, China. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design and the Queens Museum in New York, the Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey, the Jeju Museum of Art in Jeju, Korea, the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, Switzerland and the Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne, Germany.

Lee is a designer and artist from Singapore, and is now based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in Singapore, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Rotterdam.

Attendees can register for the free event at Noguchi.org/events.