Publications

Arab American National Museum

Etching Our Own Image: Voices from Within the Arab American Art Movement

Etching Our Own Image: Voices From Within the Arab American Art Movement is a celebration of Arab American art and identity. In the wake of 9/11, the need for Arab Americans to define themselves, rather than be defined by others has galvanized an artistic movement. This collection of writers includes poets, musicians, playwrights, creative writers, painters, conceptual artists, comedians and scholars of the arts who have gathered to assert for themselves what it means to be Arab American and an artist.

Telling Our Story: The Arab American National Museum

Telling Our Story: The Arab American National Museum, by Dr. Anan Ameri, is a soft-cover coffee table book that recounts the five year odyssey of Ameri and her colleagues that resulted in the creation of an institution that's entirely unique among America's 17,000 museums. Telling Our Story is also a colorful visual reference of the Museum's permanent exhibits - Coming to America, Living in America and Making an Impact - with hundreds of photos and accompanying text that put key portions of the Museum experience on the printed page.

Installation Gallery

A Dynamic Equilibrium: In Pursuit of Public Terrain

The essays and dialogues included in Dynamic Equilibrium are drawn from the inSite_05 Conversations, which took place in San Diego/Tijuana from November 2003 through November 2005. Envisioned as working sessions centered around questions pertinent to the terrain of San Diego/Tijuana, the Conversations were conceived to rethink issues of local import within a broader frame. Drawn from the arenas of art and urbanism, geography and politics, history and philosophy, the texts converge in their quest to make sense of the forces that form the places where disparate publics meet.

Texts by Magalí Arriola, Judith Barry, Ute Meta Bauer, Teddy Cruz, Keller Easterling, Maarten Hajer, David Harvey, Manuel de Landa, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Eyal Weizman, Måns Wrange, and Sally Yard.

Ma-Yi

Savage Stage: Plays by Ma-Yi Theater Company

Ma-Yi Theater Company’s anthology of world premieres, Savage Stage: Plays By Ma-Yi Theater Company is now available. The book includes the plays Savage Acts by Kia Corthron, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Han Ong, and Sung Rno; Flipzoids by Ralph Peña; peregriNasyon by Chris Millado; Middle Finger by Han Ong; Woman From the Other Side of the World by Linda Faigao-Hall; wAve by Sung Rno; Trial by Water by Qui Nguyen; The Romance of Magno Rubio by Lonnie Carter; and Project: Balangiga by Ralph Peña and Sung Rno, as well as four essays by Dr. Joi Barrios-Leblanc.

Vietnamese Youth Development Center

Spencer Nakasako's Trilogy & Tenderloin Stories

Spencer Nakasako's Trilogy:  a.k.a. Don bonus, Refugee, Kelly Loves Tony showcases three feature-length documentaries by award-winning filmmaker Spencer Nakasako.  Special Features include: director commentaries, update interviews, deleted scenes, and short videos that the casts/filmmakers produced back in the day.

Tenderloin Stories:  Youth Produced Videos (1989-2004) highlights the best of 15 years worth of videos from the Digital Media Lab Spencer Nakasako founded at VYDC. Own the videos that smashed technological barriers and gave a voice to urban Asian American refugee youth.  Special Features include: update interviews with former participants and an insider’s "behind-the-scenes" look at Nakasako's video workshops.