Noguchi Musum

2024

'The Noguchi Museum continues to celebrate and amplify creative voices in our local Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities with the third annual Open Call for Artist Banners. As an institution founded by Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi, The Noguchi Museum stands in solidarity with AAPI communities and any community targeted by discrimination, oppression, or racism. In 2024, the Museum invited emerging AAPI artists based in New York City to submit designs for the Museum’s outdoor banners addressing the theme of “labor and love.”' -from noguchi.org

My banner design reflects the great labor that the people of Queens have accomplished by coming together to create space in their community for art.

The two emergent shapes in the banner design are the Noguchi Museum and the Socrates Sculpture park, which was once a landfill.

My design relates watercolor brushstrokes to members of a community, who despite coming from diverse backgrounds, have shown that they can rally around their love for the arts to create and support spaces that can be enjoyed intergenerationally.

It was thanks to support from the museum but also the community’s love for the arts, that the park was cleaned and has been creating a space that fosters love for the arts for generations since.