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🌊 On 10/24–10/25, AS OCEAN PEOPLE: SYMPOSIUM, SCREENINGS, AND PERFORMANCE brings together artists and scholars of various diasporic Asian Pacific Islander identities. ⁠
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Organized by GYOPO, the two days feature panel discussions, screenings, soundscapes, and performances that examine the legacies of U.S. militarization and war, forms of Indigenous resistance, and environmentalism in and around the Pacific with Crystal Z Campbell, Tony Cho, Sean Connelly, Mariquita “Micki” Davis, Alfred Peredo Flores, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Madeleine Han, Sohl Lee, Jane Kin Kaisen, Leora Kava, Sung Hwan Kim, jas lin and hearthealer, Maria Maea, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and others. ⁠
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See the link in our bio to learn more.

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🌊 How do you map militarism beyond military bases and battlefields?

In the first panel discussion of 𝓐𝓼 𝓞𝓬𝓮𝓪𝓷 𝓟𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓵𝓮, artists Sean Connelly (@seanwconnelly) and Mariquita “Micki” Davis (@marimick), moderated by Dr. Leora Kava, will discuss how militarism shapes people, places, and communities across the Pacific. Bringing perspectives from Hawaiʻi, Guåhan, and Tonga, the panel asks whose knowledge gets recognized, what conventional maps leave out, and how community knowledge and place-based research can make the impacts of military power more visible.

Join us next weekend at REDCAT (@calartsredcat) for a two-day symposium of conversations, screenings, soundscapes, and performances exploring the legacies of U.S. militarization and war, Indigenous resistance, and environmentalism in and around the Pacific.

📅 Saturday, 10/24, from 1–6pm and Sunday, 10/25, from 1–5pm
📍 REDCAT, 631 W 2nd St
🎟️ Free; RSVP at the link in bio.

As Ocean People is organized by GYOPO and made possible with lead support from the Terra Foundation for American Art (@terraamericanart) and Yang Won Sun Foundation (@ywsfoundation).

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Mylee Etuale
Ia Manatua
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Saturday, October 3, 3-5 pm
Pilele Projects
3307A West Washington Blvd, Los Angeles
Through October 17, 2026
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Ia Manatua marks Mylee Etuale’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The title is a Samoan phrase meaning “to remember” or “to recall,” framing memory as an active connection to family, ancestry, and place.

Drawing from Etuale’s return visits to Samoa after growing up in the Southern California diaspora, the paintings explore belonging, distance, and cultural memory through layered photographic fragments, intimate figures, rich color, and textured surfaces.
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#laartscene #losangelesartscene #thingstodoinla #artopeningsla #contemporaryartlosangeles #MyleeEtuale #IaManatua #SamoanArt #DiasporaArt #ContemporaryPainting @pileleprojects @myleepaint @marimick

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Pilele Projects is thrilled to present:

Ia Manatua

Solo exhibition for Mylee Etuale

Opening Saturday, October 3, 2026
3-5pm

Ia Manatua is a Samoan phrase which can be translated as to remember, or to recall. It incorporates a Samoan concept for memory combining the term mana, meaning sacred power or spiritual energy, and tua, meaning back or support. The word ia calls manatua into presence, defines it as an act rather than an abstract concept, and positions it in a system of relationality. For Etuale, the practice of painting enacts the practice of memory. Her images are drawn from her own experience of returning to Samoa from her life in Southern California diaspora, welcomed in family, but also unfamiliar with so much of the language and lifeways that connect her to her ancestral home. Her paintings evince patient observation, joyful participation, and a sense of place, placement, and displacement which are at once vulnerable and assertive. The underlying images are made of photographic fragments, but the paintings emerge from a layered and resolutely manual process which unifies them into singularly resonant emotional chords. Her figures are intimate, but also turned away or partially hidden, sometimes cropped just beyond the edges of her canvases, so that what is given is more a feeling than a person. Similarly, her treatment of color and texture produce a dense generosity at the surface of her paintings which is also the result of a calculated withholding of the kinds of realism that offer up a picture in a single glance. Her paintings do not so much hold her memories as caress them into the present.

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MATAO Gi Matan Guma residency with the Wabanaki and Colby College. Such deep gratitude for the creative process and the time we had together. Hu Guaiya hamyo. Na’lå’la. Biba CHamoru. Biba dakota camacho, visionary & co-founder

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✨"archipelagoes resemble constellations"

CHamoru poet Craig Santos Perez's visual poem, "ginen [sounding lines]" (Slide 2), greets visitors in the museum lobby, opening our exhibition "Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas." The poem evokes the wholeness of island worlds, interconnected through diaspora, environment, culture, and shared histories.

In "Imagining an Archipelago," artists explore their relationships to the histories and communities of their lands and seas—building a collective archipelago of stories that reflect realities complicated by US expansion.

📍 On view through June 6, 2027. Visit the link in our bio to learn more.
📷 @artindexphotography

Slide 1: Amber Robles-Gordon(@amberroblesgordon)
Slide 2: Isa Gagarin(@isa_gagarin), Imelda Cajipe Endaya(@cajipe.endaya), María Magdalena Campos-Pons(@maria_magdalena_campos_pons)
Slide 3: Jerome Reyes(@jeromeureyes)
Slide 4: Sara Jimenez(@sara.jimenez.art)
Slide 5: Daniel Lind-Ramos(@daniel_lind_ramos)
Slide 6: Camille Hoffman(@camillehoffmanstudio)
Slide 7: Bhen Alan(@bhen_alan)
Slide 8: Zilla Sánchez

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Help us welcome our 4th cohort of trained doulas on Guam!!! We’re so proud & honored to continue to expand the number of culturally relevant trained doulas on island 🎊

Last month changed a lot of plans & shifted our work to mainly post typhoon recovery efforts! But we recognized that with more climate & environmental disasters happening, more folks trained in perinatal health & support with an advocacy & rapid response lens continue to be important & an urgent need. We decided to go forward with our scheduled doula training & our doulas & community really came thru & supported!! 🥹💙

So much gratitude to our newly trained doulas for showing up & making this space what it was, to our Guam coordinator @gilaynajoy, all of our collective members who ran errands, supported, presented, etc, to all our guest presenters @fwcguam Saina B & Auntie Susan @opottunidat @earthstarholistichealth, & to @gimatanguma for leading our opening & closing ceremony.

Thank you/Dångkulu na Saina Ma’åse
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🌀This event is free of charge. Seating will be first come first serve and you likely will not be turned away, even if you are unable to register your RSVP.

🌊 𝓐𝓼 𝓞𝓬𝓮𝓪𝓷 𝓟𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓵𝓮: 𝓢𝔂𝓶𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓲𝓾𝓶, 𝓢𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮

This October we’re bringing together artists and scholars across for As Ocean People, a symposium exploring the legacies of U.S. militarization and war, Indigenous resistance, and environmentalism across and around the Pacific. These themes are closely tied to our exhibition Flesh Witness, which will be on view at the REDCAT (@calartsredcat) gallery.

Organized by GYOPO (@gyopo.us) and taking place at REDCAT, the weekend will feature panel discussions, screenings, soundscapes, and performances — with the intention of providing a generative space for the sharing of ideas, worldviews, practices, and histories.

📅 Saturday, 10/24 from 1—5:15pm and Sunday, 10/25 from 1—5pm

📍 REDCAT, 631 W 2nd St

🎟️ RSVP at the link in bio.

As Ocean People is made possible by lead support from the Terra Foundation for American Art (@terraamericanart) and Yang Won Sun Foundation (@ywsfoundation).

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🥰 Welcoming a new year of life filled with gratitude to have amazing family and friends around me. Whether we see each other in rare moments to text messages and calls or in person hangs, it all fills my cup. Feeling so loved by all the love 🥰

🙏🏽 Thank you God for the journey I’m on. I’m blessed to receive gifts disguised and apparent that You’re working in my life. May You continue to guide me and use me as a vessel to be a light for others.

✨ So many memories from the last year to share but here are a few with dear family and chosen family who keep me grounded and faithful. Thank you for the support with all the heart work I’m doing and also spending time with me when I’m in town visiting.

☀️ More to come especially from the adventures in the last year. To many more adventures in life coming up. Also here’s to more courage and care as I continue to be fully alive.

📷: @myles_matsuno (thanks for my cover photo at @aaafilmfest)

✈️ Austin • Seattle • Los Angeles • San Francisco • Bentonville • Oceanside • Phoenix • Guam

#hbd #julybirthday #leoseason #gratitude #gratituesday

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The colors in the sky were amazing tonight for sunset, I ❤️ Guam 🇬🇺

#Agatsunset #sunsetsinguam #purebeauty

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Happy to share recent opening photos of “Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas” at the Colby Museum of Art @colbymuseum.

A fantastic day with many of the artists in person, thank you to the team of curators and staff including Jessamine Batario @drjbatario, Megan Carey @meganpcarey, Gussie Weiss @gussie.weiss, Ryan Ridky, and Lorraine DeLaney @amarettini. Congratulations to all the artists for such a wonderful gathering. 

In nice surprise I was handed giant scissors by Director Jacqueline Terrassa for the opening ceremony ribbon cutting. In last year’s visit to the College’s humanities lecture series, I mentioned my past public art and community projects had ribbon cutting ceremonies and it would be special to have one here with everyone.

 This major traveling exhibition is on view for one year then travels to Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico @museomacpr, Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey @newarkmuseumart, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco @ybca. 

Images 2-3: @isa_gagarin 
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“Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas”

July 11, 2026–June 06, 2027
Colby Museum of Art

Connecting generations across oceans, Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas presents approximately fifty contemporary artworks by more than forty artists. The physically and visually immersive presentation brings together paintings, sculptures, videos, prints, photographs, and multimedia installations—including several newly commissioned, site-specific works—that explore artists’ relationships to the histories and communities of their lands and seas. Uniting the works are themes of cultural and political self-determination, indigeneity and migration, and climate crisis and resilience.

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Guam museum, what an awesome place to visit. Thanks to the great staff for your hospitality, Si Yu'us Ma'åse.

#guammuseum #I❤️Guam

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