Insights
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View from Afar: Angel Island Insight
Entering the San Francisco Art Institute’s deserted longtime home, a fortresslike, two-building campus perched atop Russian Hill with unobstructed views of Alcatraz Island and Coit Tower, is like wandering into…
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Angel Island Insight #8: Megan & Chris Wong
MEGAN and CHRIS WONG’s grandfathers were held in the Angel Island Immigration Station barracks. In 1929, Edmund Fong (Gung Gung) arrived in the belly of his mother Wun Shee Fong,…
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Angel Island Insight #7: Heather Knight
What a beautiful day in the bay. Took the ferry to Angel Island and hiked to the top. Back to work Monday. Sounds like there’s plenty to write about. 😉…
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Angel Island Insight #6: Mark Shigenaga
Photo: Mark Shigenaga. Filming day on Angel Island with Claudia Katanayagi for A Bitter Legacy, 2012. Although photography had always been a casual interest of mine, it wasn’t until 2008,…
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Angel Island Insight #5: Christine Huhn
Photos: (top) Christine at Land’s End by Micaela Go, http://www.micaelago.com/; (above) Christine Huhn. Native Oak Limbs near Sunrise Campsites, 2021. Silver Gelatin Print. 16″ x 20″ When Andi approached me about…
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Angel Island Insight #3: Lenore Chinn
LENORE CHINN, lenorechinn.comPhoto: Mia Nakano, ©Visibility Project https://www.visibilityproject.org/ I am a San Francisco based artist who focuses on the depiction of a wide spectrum of people in all their diversity…
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Angel Island Insight #2 : Lai Yong
“Lai Yong exhibits two portraits—tolerably good, but rather Chinese in style.” San Francisco Chronicle, Mechanics’ Institute Fair. Ninth Day. Art Matters—Attendance—Receipts—Programme of Music for This Evening. September 24, 1869, page…
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Angel Island Insight #1 : AIISF & Del Sol Quartet
“While there are inscriptions by immigrants from many different nations that can still be found on the walls of the detention barracks, it’s the 200+ poems left behind by Chinese…