Asian American Arts Alliance Launches New Magazine About AAPI Arts and Culture

The Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) has announced the launch of The Amp, an online magazine celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) arts and culture.

The Amp was created to amplify and celebrate the voices, stories, and accomplishments of AAPI artists and creative leaders. Featuring critical essays and reviews, thoughtful profiles, insightful interviews and conversations, and illuminating photo essays, A4 intends for The Amp to serve as an archive of the work being created by the AAPI community-on our own terms.

The launch issue includes coverage of events and artists and exhibitions from across the AAPI community: a conversation between Hua Hsu and Ryan Lee Wong on their coming of age stories; a review of Bharti Kher's public art exhibition; a photo essay of Disco Tehran showing diasporic communion in a time of crisis; a review of Photographic Justice, which makes visible the lasting influence of the beloved photographer Corky Lee; and a profile of musician Sirintip, who represents a new generation of artists addressing climate change head on.

New content will be posted each week in The Amp magazine section of the A4 website: https://www.aaartsalliance.org/magazine

"We are so thrilled to be able to spotlight the incredible, diverse, and vibrant projects being created by our community. Excellent work that is so often overlooked by mainstream publications. We want to serve as a platform for telling AAPI stories from an AAPI perspective," says Lisa Gold, Executive Director of A4.

"At A4, we witness so many profound, deeply meaningful works and conversations produced by AAPI artists every day that speak truth into the proverbial microphone. The Amp is our way of raising the volume, letting these voices resonate loudly, clearly, and in perpetuity," says Shannon Lee, editor of The Amp.

Writers interested in having their work featured in The Amp can send their pitch ideas to the editor at theamp@aaartsalliance.org. For more information about the types of stories to be featured, please visit The Amp website: https://www.aaartsalliance.org/magazine/about.

The Amp is made possible with support from the Ford Foundation and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the New York City Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy Strelsin Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.