Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2024

Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with A4 the whole month of May 2024!

Support The Amp

This May, in recognition of the second federally recognized AANHPI Heritage month, please consider supporting A4’s online magazine, The Amp. Launched by A4 two years ago as an online magazine dedicated to uplifting AANHPI artists in NYC, The Amp is a critical platform for our voices to be heard loudly, clearly, and on our own terms through reviews, profiles, interviews, and essays.

Read a letter from the Editor, Shannon Lee, here.

Help us reach our goal of $5,000 before May 31st!

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Photos by Jeong Park, Marion Aguas, Kaira Widodo. Courtesy Asian American Arts Alliance.

Limited Edition Bandanas

For every donation of $100+, donors will receive a free bandana designed by Somnath Bhatt along with the second print edition of the Amp.

Donations about $50+ will receive the second print edition of the Amp.

Somnath Bhatt’s design for Asian American Arts Alliance is a graphic flash sheet of abstract shapes and forms. These geometric shapes come together and compose a multi-oriented landscape of a community coming together.

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Bandanas will begin shipping in early June. The Amp will be shipped in November.

Artists

Somnath Bhatt
Bandana Artist
Somnath Bhatt is a designer, artist, and writer who lives between Ahmedabad and New York City. His work has been shown at MoMA PS1, Art Week Dubai, India Art Fair, the ICA London, and Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète, among other venues. Selected clients include Instagram, the New York Times, The New Yorker, Reebok, HYEIN SEO, and the musicians Nicolás Jaar and Mitski. Currently he is an Art Director at Bloomberg. He also works as a contributing editor at MOLD Magazine and AIGA Eye on Design. Somnath believes in the power of the unseen, the chaos of myth, and that labor has the right to all it creates.

Events

Chinatown Book Launch Party: Corky Lee’s Asian America
New Music Mondays @ Bang & Olufsen
Devoted: Religion in Asian American Art
Artist-Led Walkthrough of Devoted
May Town Hall: Sanctuary
Portfolio in Practice

Testimonials

Read testimonials from artists, contributors, and readers of the Amp to learn about the impact of your support.
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LinkNYC AAPI Trivia

See any AAPI trivia around NYC throughout the month of May? Snap a photo and send it to us at a4@aaartsalliance.org or tag us on social media for a chance to be featured.
Image courtesy of LinkNYC.
Magazine
Visit The Amp and read some of the necessary stories being shared.
Interviews

David Huang on Designing the 2024 Noguchi Museum Artist Banners

By David Huang and Shannon Lee
Profiles

AAPI FIlmmakers on the Rise: Ha’aheo Auwae-Dekker

By Lucas Manuel-Scheibe
News

This AANHPI Heritage Month, Help Fund The Amp

By A4 Staff
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