Make Do: Filipino American Visual Culture and the Everyday Arts of Survival

FAIN: HB-282777-22

Maria Sarita See
Regents of the University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA 92521-0001)

Research and writing leading to a book about contemporary Filipino American art and visual culture.

This book-length manuscript is about contemporary Filipino American artists and small businesses that create and exhibit visual culture with resourceful, do-it-yourself modes of inventive survival. This project merges “high art” shown in galleries and film festivals with “low” visual culture in ordinary small businesses in order to document and theorize, across these very different exhibition venues, a continuous pattern of inventive artistic and everyday cultural practices that emanate out of material need, racialized experience, and everyday resilience.