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This is our art corner where our members show their creative sides and express themselves through art!
Would you like to share your art with an artist statement on our art corner? Click here to submit your art (must sign up as an AYR chapter leader). If you would like, you can request to keep your name anonymous or to use a pen name. Please keep in mind that we do not accept art that promotes hate against anyone or any group of people, unrelated topics, and non-visual art. Additional details and guidelines are found on form.
Latest Art
We Aren’t a Virus
By Hana Parker | With the increased wave of Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic, I created this piece to represent how the misguided beliefs about the virus’ origin and subsequent instances of racial microaggressions negatively impacted mental health. I also call the viewer to recognize our responsibility to speak out against this injustice.
Heavenly
By Mia Fung
Boba
By Mia Fung
Older Art
Selfie
By Mia Fung
Dangerous Dance
By Mei Tachibana | Tragedies like the one at Star Ballroom Dance studio are not only tragic for the lives that are lost or effected, but because of the joy it can drain from a community. This shooting made a place where local, primarily Asian, elders would gather and have fun, into something traumatic and…
Celebrate
By Isabel
Heart
By Mina Fedor, Founder and Executive Director
Our Diverse Youth Voices Art Showcase
Over 40+ youth artists created art that was on display at E14 Gallery in Oakland, CA for the Our Diverse Voices youth art showcase which highlighted the importance of learning about our diverse histories.
Our art activism event took place the day after AB 101 was signed into law. We supported AB101, the ethnic studies mandate for California high schools, by writing letters, calling our legislators and joining student coalitions.
Camila – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means acknowledging our differences and making sure everyone realizes how important Diversity is and how big of an impact it is in our world.
Jungle – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity is fun. Saying different names is fun. We are all different but we all like to play the floor is lava.
Devin – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means that everyone can make their own creations.
Nzinga – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity helps you see the world in millions of ways instead of one.
Charlottie – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity is important to me with various reasons. I, myself, immigrated to the US 3 years ago. Learning more about the culture, people, and environment around me makes me feel more at home and interested to find out more. What living here has taught me about diversity is that our community is a…
Javier – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means we can learn new things that can be combined or you can construct.
Siwoo (2) – Our Diverse Youth Voices
To me, learning about diversity means breaking down stereotypes and knocking down ignorance.
Mila – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means learning about all ethnicities and religions. Many religions and ethnicities are overlooked and disregarded.
Siwoo (1) – Our Diverse Youth Voices
To me, learning about diversity means breaking down stereotypes and knocking down ignorance.
Robert – Our Diverse Youth Voices
It means to know about other peoples’ race, religion, and culture.
Jeanne – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means the different backgrounds and culture of different people, and this relates to my art because there is diversity in the ocean because there are so many types of animals and plants. Just like how many different people there are in the whole world. People are born in different sizes, colors, and…
Natalie – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means learning about different cultures to me. I think we should learn about different diversities, so we know how people live and their different ways of living. We should respect cultures.
Hayden – Our Diverse Youth Voices
To me, diversity is everything. As an Asian American, it is so important to me that my culture is shared and appreciated. I am so lucky to have grown up in such a diverse city and state. Being constantly surrounded by rich cultures has been vital to my upbringing and identity as a person. I…
Goe (2) – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means learning more about my pride community and my Mexican Heritage.
Goe (1) – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means learning more about my queer and Mexican heritage.
Jasmin – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means connecting with the people you live with, the people you live next to, and the people you go to school with. Learning about other people is just as important as learning about yourself.
Lizbeth – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity to me is something very valuable and important. I feel like everyone needs to know about diversity so we can experience and learn new things. We can also appreciate different cultures and people that are different around us.
Sela – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity to me means exploring the differences and similarities in all cultures, backgrounds and communities. I become more open-minded when I learn new things about the diverseness in people and it helps me become more aware of the world around me.
Khang – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means to me that if there is more diversity the more I can learn.
Michael – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Nature and live
Tina – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means to have knowledge of other living organisms that don’t look the same as you.
Andreana – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means learning to accept our differences.
Elhaam – Our Diverse Youth Voices
It means different. It’s like different cultures, religions, food, clothes, etc. Different is another way to say it, it’s the difference and similarities of things
Iyanna – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity to me means learning about the differences between everyone and everything and understanding the differences and similarities.
Mylo – Our Diverse Youth Voices
It’s good to know about how everyone is different
Memo – Our Diverse Youth Voices
The meaning of Diversity to me is for us just to mix together and harmonize with each other even with each others differences.
Anna H. – Our Diverse Youth Voices
I think learning about diversity is important because it can prevent xenophobia. the more people know about something, the less likely it will be to say something potentially hurtful on accident.
Anonymous – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means to diversitize your mind as well as a person being closed minded gets you nowhere.
Ian – Our Diverse Youth Voices
It’s important for me to learn as much as I can about diversity because I am part of a diverse community at my school. My class and friends are made up of so many races so it’s my responsibility to learn and live my life with respect and understanding of all people. It’s also important…
Cyra – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Accepting various and different cultures, colors, prospects and understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences.
Ixchele – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means learning about the history that people of color made.
Bean (2) – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means to me learning that there are other people like you and you have a group of people you can talk to. Learning that you are not alone.
Bean (1) – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means to me learning that there are other people like you and you have a group of people you can talk to. Learning that you are not alone.
Aashi (2) – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means thinking about the dream that America promises everyone, but not all are given the opportunity to achieve.
Aashi (1) – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means reflecting on the varied heritages and races of Americans and how they all contribute to one world – and to one America.
Crystal – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity is important to me because of many reasons, such as that most U.S citizens immigrated here from other countries. The U.S’s history is just all about the diversity. Personally, I am Chinese, living here and having so much people who share the same heritage as me, really makes me feel more that…
Anna W. – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning about diversity means to me to understand and appreciate different personalities, and different points of view of the world.
Nicholas – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means global, we all connected.
Geena – Our Diverse Youth Voices
It means everything. Today, when learning about diversity is especially relevant, in order to form a respectful and safe environment people must first be educated on how to respect other cultures.
Alyssa – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity can mean multiple things, nonetheless it is an important topic in our society. When I see the word “diversity” I think about variety. I mainly think about variety, uniqueness, and heritage. Diversity can bring people together and those people can help educate each other. It can help people understand each other. Diversity can also…
Mina – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Learning diverse histories means that everyone’s stories are told, and represented. This would combat bias, and misinformation making for a more peaceful and educated society. I personally would love to see more AAPI representation in modern curriculum. I also wanted to raise awareness around the issues facing AAPI and learn my communities stories. I would…
Sierra – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity to me means being different. It means knowing and embracing who you are inside and out. When I think of diversity, I think of all the different faces I see every day and how everyone is different but similar.
Ollie – Our Diverse Youth Voices
This is a superhero with down syndrome It is representing down syndrome awareness.
Anjoli – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means favorite things to do and the many things I like.
Lucian – Our Diverse Youth Voices
Diversity means that people from all different parts of the world come together to learn from each other. We can learn from all our different cultures, backgrounds, tools and religions too. This is what the world should be. And people should be welcoming to others.