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This is a letter in response to a Dartboard piece ("A Beef With Bamboo Shoots," Feb. 19, 1995) about the art exhibit co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) displayed in the Science Center. We hadn't realized The Crimson had the luxury of replacing editorial space with tabloid gossip. We guess you couldn't even call it that--though the cattiness is there, most columns do a bit more research into their subject to avoid looking foolish after publication...
Allow us to correct--or better, to provide some facts about--the piece discussed. As a part of Asian American Cultural Month: Celebrating the Diversity of Asian American, AAA commissioned Mona Higuchi, an Arizona-based artist, to incorporate the responses of over 300 Harvard-Radcliffe students into a coherent exhibit. Collected in various dining halls earlier in the year, these were responses to the question, "Do you identify strongly with being Asian American, or is it just another label?" In the spirit of inclusion and celebrating the multiplicity of the Asian American perspective, all responses were displayed. With the help...
...exhibit doesn't move you, you say. Call you unfeeling or not trendy enough, you challenge. Let's just call it what it is: bad journalism. It wasn't necessary to elicit emotion from everyone, rather the intent was to receive a response. We're sorry The Crimson couldn't pull together some-thing better than what it offered. As a piece of art you didn't get it. As a statement from an Asian American community you didn't get it. Dear editors, perhaps it is because you just don't have it. Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association Steering...
...categorizing Lewis as a "peripheral artist," excluded from mainstream culture by her gender and race, the exhibit further minimizes her work...
...actual works by Lewis exhibited (many of her works can be found at Howard and other historically African-American universities) show the artist's prodigious talent. Her bust of Longfellow, cast in the neoclassical Greek-god mold, is particularly compelling, especially considering the limited access Lewis had to artistic training. The exhibit includes Lewis' only known sketch, from her only drawing class, in the "Young Ladies Prepatory Department" at Oberlin College...