Christine Wong Yap

About

Christine Wong Yap (she/they) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based visual artist and social practitioner. She gathers and amplifies grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental wellbeing through drawing, lettering, printmaking, publishing, textiles, and public art. Over the past 16 years, she has developed over 20 multidisciplinary projects exploring aspects of psychological well being with the California College of the Arts, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, For Freedoms, Times Square Arts, the Wellcome Trust, and more. 

After serving as the inaugural artist-in-residence with the Othering and Belonging Institute from 2018 to 2019, she was featured as one of 12 “host-heroes of belonging” in Susie B. Wise’s Design for Belonging (Ten Speed Press & Stanford d.school, 2022). Currently, Christine is serving as the Neighborhood Visiting Artist at Stanford University, where she is collaborating with the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Residential Education to support social cohesion. This spring and summer, a survey of her projects on belonging will be on view in an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art San José, which is co-organized with Montalvo Art Center. Learn more at ChristineWongYap.com.

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Agenda

Apr
25
How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望 (Thursday)
Location: The Commons Visit a vibrant display of 16 handmade textile banners, heartfelt trilingual video interviews, and inspiring parade documentation from Christine Wong Yap's latest cross-cultural, trilingual bridging project entitled How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望. How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望 engaged 16 Chinese- and Spanish-speaking, working class, immigrant womxn from San Francisco’s Chinatown and Mission District neighborhoods. With a team of interpreters, lead artist Christine Wong Yap led six trilingual workshops for designers to build...
Apr
26
How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望 (Friday)
Location: The Commons Visit a vibrant display of 16 handmade textile banners, heartfelt trilingual video interviews, and inspiring parade documentation from Christine Wong Yap's latest cross-cultural, trilingual bridging project entitled How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望. How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望 engaged 16 Chinese- and Spanish-speaking, working class, immigrant womxn from San Francisco’s Chinatown and Mission District neighborhoods. With a team of interpreters, lead artist Christine Wong Yap led six trilingual workshops for designers to build...
Apr
27
How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望 (Saturday)
Location: The Commons Visit a vibrant display of 16 handmade textile banners, heartfelt trilingual video interviews, and inspiring parade documentation from Christine Wong Yap's latest cross-cultural, trilingual bridging project entitled How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望. How I Keep Looking Up / Como Sigo Mirando Arriba / 仰望 engaged 16 Chinese- and Spanish-speaking, working class, immigrant womxn from San Francisco’s Chinatown and Mission District neighborhoods. With a team of interpreters, lead artist Christine Wong Yap led six trilingual workshops for designers to build...