Our gratitude to:
VOLUNTEERS
for their talents and skills. Join our family.
Contact Cynthia Tom 415-722-4296 or [email protected]
FUNDERS
San Francisco Arts Commission for their visionary support of PLACE.
Funded in part by
-
San Francisco Arts Commission
's ACIP Grants,
- National Endowment for the Arts Fast Track,
- California Arts Council
- Zellerbach Family Foundation
- Do A Little Foundation
- SF Realtors Association
- RJ Louie Memorial Foundation
-
WomenArts Harmony Project
funded generously by Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition
PAAWBAC
- The Koehn Family Foundation
- Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
- City of Emeryville
detail of Root to Spirit by Pat Zomora, 2019, photo Cynthia Tom
BUSINESSES that support PLACE
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VENUES
- SOMArts Cultural Center and staff
- de Young Museum’s Renee Baldocci
- J-SEI, Emeryville
- Thoreau Center for Sustainability’s Bruce DeMartini
- Driftwood Gallery – Camille and Anthony
- APICC, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s Vinay Patel
- Manilatown’s Caroline Cabading and Carlos Zialcita
- AAWAA and 1890 Bryant Studios
- Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
Current and Past Community Partners since 2009
- J-Sei Center of Emeryville
- Manilatown Heritage Center
- Asian Women's Shelter
- Boys and Girls Clubs of SF
- Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC)
-
WomenArts.org – Harmony Project
- De Young Museum’s Public Programs – Artists in Residence
- SOMArts Cultural Center
- Thoreau Center
- API Legal Outreach
- Bhutanese/Nepali Women’s Refugee Collective
- Kearny Street Workshop
- AsianWeek Foundation
- CBS Channel 5 KPIX
- Avotcja at KPOO and KPFA
L to R: Cynthia Tom, Avotcja, Ahran Lee, Pat Zamora at KPOO , 2016
Personal Notes of Gratitude for the countless hours of administration, PR, coordination, installation, editing, fundraising, and moral support by the PLACE Collective, Facilitators and Advisors:

- Deep Bows to Asian American Women Artists Association and Shari Arai DeBoer for countless hours of budget guidance
- Founder/Director:
Cynthia Tom
- Assistant Director:
Maggie Yee
- Workshop Facilitaton Assistant Directors: Natalie Sacramento; Maggie Yee
- Art Facilitators:
Manon Bogerd Wada
;
Kelsay Elizabeth Myers
;
Reiko Fujii
;
Maggie Yee,
Cris Matos
- Advisors: Nancy Arvold LMFT;
Khai Hoan Ngo LMFT
;
Susan Almazol
; Amy G. Lam and
Shari Arai Deboer
- Development:
Cynthia Tom
, Shari Arai Deboer
- Budget admin: Shari Arai Deboer, Irene Wibawa
- Co Exhibition Curators: Cynthia Tom and Maggie Yee
- Graphic Designers: Nervous House, Ninamo Designs
- Exhibition Installation Preparators:
Cris Matos,
Brian Garvey, Ed Fung
- Volunteers extraordinaire: Diana Lew, King Edward
- Public Relations: Karen Larson Associates, Katherine Yau, Vivian Truong, Beverly Quintana, Cynthia Tom
- Past Co-Director 2013 - 2016: Trinity Ordona PhD
- Past Workshop Facilitators: Khai Hoan Ngo, Jillie Anderson
- Past Admin: Khay Hembrador and
Vivian Truong
- Past Co-Curator and Jurors: Kimi Taira, Kim Anno - juror
- Photographers | Videographers: Reiko Fujii,
Cris Matos
,
Lenore Chinn
,
Laura Wong
, Thomas Schumake, Mido Lee Productions and
Laura Paule,
JW Diehl
Photography.
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