Organization
Community Focus
Location
Community Focus
WA, Chamoru, Pasifika Location
Seattle, WA Guahu si Gillian Dueñas and I tell my stories through visual art. By painting, weaving, carving, and jewelry making, I explore my identity as a mixed-race Indigenous Pacific Islander woman born and raised in the diaspora. My art is an act of reclamation, decolonization, and healing. I take inspiration from traditional motifs, legends, and jewelry and reimagine them in a modern context. Overall, I use my art to amplify my stories as well as the stories of my community.
Community Focus
Chamoru, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian / Kanaka Maoli, Hmong, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Lao, Malaysian, Marshallese, Palauan, Taiwanese, Thai, Tongan, Vietnamese Location
Spokane United We Stand is a community-based organization comprised of volunteers from the descendants of Chinese & Japanese families who arrived in Spokane starting the 1850's, along with Spokane’s Asian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islanders residents, COFA, immigrants & refugees. Representing: China, Japan, Vietnam, Hmong, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Korea, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Micronesia, Guam, Marshallese, Palau, Tonga, Hawaii, and more.
Our mission is to use the arts to share about our history, traditions, culture, and our experience in America.
Our mission is to use the arts to share about our history, traditions, culture, and our experience in America.