Title:

[Jim Dong fine art prints]

Creator/Contributor:

Dong, Jim, creator, artist.

Fine art prints by Jim Dong.

Date:

1971 (issued)

1. Nam Exit (1971) -- 2. Nam Coke (1971) -- 3. Mitsu 1933 (1981) -- 4. Harley Monk (1981)

Subject:

Vietnam War, 1961-1975

Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975

Title devised by cataloger.

Sheets unsigned, untitled, undated. Paperwork provided by artist includes titles and dates.

Transferred from the Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley in 2024.

James Gong Fu Dong, or Jim Dong, is a renowned printmaker, muralist, illustrator, and photographer who has exhibited widely in major museums and galleries around the San Francisco Bay Area. His mural paintings have been reproduced in national and international publications. Born in 1949 in San Francisco's Chinatown, Jim Dong was raised at the Ping Yuen Federal Housing Projects. He attended the San Francisco State University's Art Department where he studied printmaking in 1967, earning his undergraduate degree, followed by a master's degree in drawing and printmaking in 1973. He has taught studio art at UC Berkeley and at San Francisco State University. He was a founding member of the Jackson Street Gallery (San Francisco, 1974-1978) and was the gallery's chief curator and artistic director. Since 1990 Jim Dong has been an instructor in drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, design, illustration, and art history at the Kamehameha Secondary School's Kapālama Campus's Visual Arts Department in Hawaii. He and his family are residents of Kaneohe on Oahu Island since September of 1989. Jim Dong applied his skills in printmaking by bringing to public attention many pressing national and international social and political issues and local concerns about his community. He founded the Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco that became the most influential Asian American cultural arts center in the country and a model for grassroots community arts centers nationally during the mid-1970s. He served as the Workshop's director for its first 15 years. [Note copied from U.C. Santa Barbara catalog record for their Jim Dong papers collection.]

Jim Dong fine art prints, BANC PIC 2024.046, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic

lithographs.

Lithographs.

Lithographies.

print

4 prints in 1 folder : color lithographs ; sheets 97 x 65 cm or smaller

English

Origin:

California