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Hi, my name is Xiang Siow, and I am a rising third-year student at the University of Chicago majoring in art history.<\/p>\n
As an intern at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program, I am working on a research project on Chinese American and transnational Chinese art. I am interested in how art is categorized in today\u2019s critical discourse. What are the markers of identity in a world of complex, cultural-entangled identities? By examining the work of a few artists, I aim to explore and complicate the conventional boundaries (inclusive and exclusive) of what is even today still considered an \u201cethnic\u201d type of art rooted solely in identity politics. <\/p>\n
So far, my research has been based in books, exhibition catalogs, and other texts on Asian American art or on specific artists. I have also had very helpful conversations with staff at the Asian Pacific American Program and other Smithsonian experts. In the coming weeks, I hope to continue to take advantage of the expansive resources available to me, including the library and archives of the Freer-Sackler Galleries<\/a>, American Art Museum<\/a>, and the Library of Congress<\/a> as I proceed with my work.<\/p>\n I have also assisted with various other projects at the office, including the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival<\/a>; the upcoming portion of the National Portrait Gallery\u2019s<\/a> series Portraiture Now focusing on Asian Americans; the unveiling of the portrait of former Cabinet Secretary Norman Mineta at NPG<\/a>; a convening of various scholars, activists, and experts for an exhibition on Asian Pacific American history<\/a>; and a future exhibition on Chinese food in America<\/a>. I am thrilled to have had the privilege of meeting so many Asian Pacific American leaders and scholars and to be part of such a wonderful, dedicated, and fun staff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, my name is Xiang Siow, and I am a rising third-year student at the University of Chicago majoring in art history. As an intern at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program, I am working on a research project on Chinese American and transnational Chinese…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}