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Maiyashu's new picture book explores how people relate to their hometowns in a breathtaking way

Creative Boom

It's a theme that author and illustrator Xinyue Chen, AKA Maiyashu, explores to great effect in their latest picture book, I Will Always Be Here. To enter the Central Academy of Fine Arts, I spent many years of my life learning traditional and academic painting," they reveal. "To What do you picture when you think of home?

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CiCi Suen's beautiful, textured drawings explore the hidden universe of nature

Creative Boom

Picked out with striking line work and hazy shading, CiCi Suen's stunning nature illustrations purposefully occupy a rather dreamlike world with no story or set theme to anchor them. Considering herself lucky to have discovered her passion in life from an early age, she would go on to study at Camberwell College of Arts.

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Semi-Permanent reveals stellar lineup for its Never Permanent festival in Melbourne

Creative Boom

When and where Part of the City of Melbourne's Now or Never festival, Never Permanent is a full-day program of keynote talks and panel discussions that will explore and celebrate the rich and ever-changing intersection of creativity and technology to inspire new ways of thinking.

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May 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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The program offers two awards of $3,500 and four of $1,000. Submissions will be juried by Lauren Rosati, Associate Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City and Maya Brooks, Assistant Curator, North Carolina Museum of Art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Deadline: 11:59 p.m.

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February 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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Noguchi Museum 2024 Open Call for Artist Banners (New York City) The Noguchi Museum invites working artists ages 18+ who reside in New York City and self-identify as Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) to submit designs for the museum’s outdoor banners, responding to the theme of “love and labor.” Deadline: February 4, 2024.

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June 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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VH AWARD for Emerging Asian Media Artists Featured The five finalists for this award by Hyundai Motor Group will each receive $25,000 in production grants and participate in an online residency program with Eyebeam. One winner will receive $25,000, and finalists will be exhibited at the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art.

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Enik? Eged on creating her own visual language

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Illustrator Enikő Eged began taking commissions for her work in her mid-20s having studied graphic design at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest. I love simple and familiar themes like still lifes, animals, and social interactions,” she says. ” @nikoenikoeniko.

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