box 1, folder 1
Food Dance Outtakes
circa 1977
box 1, folder 2
Asian American Theater Company
circa 1980
box 1, folder 3
Asian American Dance Company
1978, 1979, 1982
box 1, folder 4
Philip Gotanda's Avocado Kid at the Chinese Cultural Center
circa 1980
box 1, folder 5
Philip Gotanda's Avocado Kid at the Chinese Cultural Center
circa 1980
box 1, folder 6
Philip Gotanda's Avocado Kid at the Chinese Cultural Center
circa 1980
box 2, folder 1-14
Asian American Dance Collective
undated
box 2, folder 15-26
Asian American Theater Company
undated
box 3, folder 1-17
Jazz in Japan town: Kearny Street Workshop and Asian American Jazz Festival
1975-1984
General
Folder 1 of Box 4 contains a black and white photograph that inspired
Jim
Dong's
silkscreen print depicted in the 1985 JAM Workshop Calendar for the month of December, which is located in Box 5, folder
4.
box 3, folder 18-22
Portraits of "Paper Angels," Angel Island Genny Lim
undated
box 3, folder 30
Opening of New Chinese for Affirmative Action's Office with Exhibit by Kearny Street Workshop
undated
flat-oversize 4, folder 4
Artwork on the I Hotel
circa 1977
General
Photographic print of mural by
Jim
Dong
and Nancy Hom.
flat-oversize 4, folder 4
Mounted black and white photograph of mural in progress
undated
box 3, folder 27
Celebrating Two New Murals for Chinatown flyer
1986
box 3, folder 29
Chinatown Playground Spafford Mural
1982-1986
flat-oversize 4, folder 3
Images from Rejoice poster
1983
box 3, folder 23
Vanguard Public Foundation. San Francisco, Calif: The Foundation.
1981
box 3, folder 24
Kearny Street Workshop.
Texas long grain: photographs. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press.
1982
box 3, folder 25
Robles, Al, and
Jim
Dong
.
Looking for Ifugao Mountain = Paghahanap sa Bundok ng Ifugao.
San Francisco: Children's Book Press.
1977
box 3, folder 26
Koret Foundation.
Serving elders in our community. San Francisco, Ca: Koret Foundation, Koret Fund.
1987
flat-oversize 4, folder 2
San Francisco Tenants Union.
Tenant times: newsletter of the San Francisco Tenants Union. San Francisco, Calif: The Union.
July 1987
Artwork
Access Restrictions
Oversize materials in flat files. Inquire at Special Research Collections for access.
box 3, folder 28
Greeting card designed by
Jim
Dong
undated
flat-oversize 4, folder 1
I Hotel Calendar, cover art
1977
General
International Hotel low income housing calendar with cover art depicting a photograph of a mural by
Jim
Dong
and Nancy Hom. Photography by Chris Huie and Chris Fujimoto. Design and layout by Nancy Hom.
flat-oversize 4, folder 5
Japantown Art and Media (JAM) Workshop 1985 Calendar
1985
General
A limited edition collection of 12 original silkscreen prints by JAM Workshop artists: Rich Tokeshi, Wes Aoki, Wes Sanzaki,
Mitsu Yashima, Nancy Hom, Stephanie Lowe, Barbara Jee Burgess, Leon Sun, Lena Chow, Gail Aratani, Chester Yoshida, and
Jim
Dong
. Japantown Art & Media Workshop 1730 Filmore Street, San Francisco, California 94115.
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Angel Island 1923
1981
Physical Description: 22 x 28 inches
General
The first of two prints of this silkscreen in the collection, both of which are signed by
Jim
Dong
.
Image description: A light purple room blends into a darker color at the floor, where two orange fruits lie on the ground,
one near a shattered bowl. A man eating out of a bowl points his chopsticks directly at a soldier across the room. The soldier
faces forward with sunglasses shielding his eyes from view. Three green lamps hanging from the ceiling cast a glowing, yellow
light onto the two men who are separated by a large table and two benches.
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Angel Island 1923
1981
Physical Description: 22 x 28 inches
General
The second of two prints of this silkscreen in the collection, both of which are signed by
Jim
Dong
.
Image description: A light purple room blends into a darker color at the floor, where two orange fruits lie on the ground,
one near a shattered bowl. A man eating out of a bowl points his chopsticks directly at a soldier across the room. The soldier
faces forward with sunglasses shielding his eyes from view. Three green lamps hanging from the ceiling cast a glowing, yellow
light onto the two men who are separated by a large table and two benches.
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Tai-chi on the Rooftop
1984
Physical Description: 17.25 x 23.5 inches
General
Image description: A grandmother wearing black pants and blue top and granddaughter wearing purple pants and pink top are
practicing tai chi on the rooftop of a building in San Francisco. Light mint green blankets are hung on a laundry line blowing
with the wind. There is a black painted skyline in the background.
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Title unknown
undated
Physical Description: 22 x 29.5 inches
General
Image Description: The print is composed of light blue, dark blue, and black inks to compose a family portrait on the left
and a pilot in uniform sitting inside of a fighter plane on the right. The family portrait has a total of five family members
in blue ink while the pilot is created out of black ink. The background is white from the paper it is printed on.
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Title unknown
undated
Physical Description: 19 x 25.25 inches
General
Image description: Two women are handing off an orange fruit to one another while a fish in the top left corner jumps out
of a cage that is composed of brown wooden panels. One woman is wearing a white robe with black trimming while the other woman
is wearing a red robe with white trim as well as purple and red bottoms with black shoes. The background of the print is a
solid tan with wood grains in red and purple.
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Kings of the Wild West
1971
Physical Description: 17 x 23 inches
General
Image Description:Two boys stand in the center with an orange tiger lying down behind them. The boys stand in the middle of
nature with trees, mountains, and waves in the distance. The boys are in matching outfits with brown shoes, blue pants, black
vest with a white long sleeve underneath, and a brown raccoon tail hat. The background in composed of light blue and light
shades of green. On the bottom right corner of the print is a signature from the artist,
Jim
Dong
.
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Year of the Tiger
1972
Physical Description: 17.2 x 23 inches
General
Image description: A boy wearing blue pants and a green shirt with suspenders rides an orange and yellow tiger. As the boy
rides the tiger, he is holding a yellow spear. Both the boy and tiger are in the middle of gray mountains as a river runs
down the valley of the mountains in the background, but both figures stand over a portion of the mountain printed in black.
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Myths and Realities/ Past, Present and future of Earth, Heaven and Hell
1981
Physical Description: 19.5 x 32 inches
General
Image description: The print contains three evenly divided images. The first image is the side profile of a man in a blue
shirt while the background is split between a yellow sky with circles add a white and orange ground floor. The second image
is the back of the man as he shoots a bow and arrow in the sky, creating a split in the ground. The third image shows a mountainside
with water flowing beneath it and an orange-to-red gradient sky as the sun sets in the distance. Beneath these three images
is another image that consists of a dark brown ground with a blue design that is surround by red splatters.
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1911
1981
Physical Description: 35 x 40 inches
General
A muscular man surrounded by an octagon is cutting off his braid with a knife. The print is focused on the right side of the
poster. The man has a mustache and is wearing brown t-shirt displaying his physique. The octagon is orange with a gold border.
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Title unknown
undated
Physical Description: 25 x 38 inches
General
Image description: This print depicts a man fishing at the top of a mountain. Behind him is a large orange fruit. There are
white clouds rolling through the purple mountainside. At the bottom of the mountain is a white Harley Davidson parked on the
green grass. The sky is a purple to pink gradient with white lightening bolts coming out of the sky.
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Nam Exit
1971
Physical Description: 22 x 30 inches
General
Image description: The black and white print shows two soldiers helping carrying another person in the center. Behind them
is an old woman sitting in bed while the bed sheets drape in the background forming the three figures. The woman is holding
a bowl and spoon while her head has a shawl over it. There is a signature by the artist in the bottom right corner.
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Vietnam 1949-1975
undated
Physical Description: 32 x 40 inches
General
Image description: A bleeding man rests in the arms of another person who is wearing a grey head scarf. The image background
is blue with a thick red border. Black text underneath the image includes a quote and a song relating to the Vietnam War.
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Nam Street Kid
1970 and 1983
Physical Description: 24 x 30 inches
General
Immage description: A soldier, depicted by six figures, slowly shifts into the form of what looks like a Coca-cola bottle.
The background depicts a barren field, a woman, a man, a bull, and an ox working on the field against a red and purple background.
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Reborn
1968
General
Image description: The top half of this print is a gradient from a deep indigo to navy blue which sharply becomes white where
a red and pink circle suddenly appears on the left with a replica of the circlular imgae stamped into the paper on the right.
Beneath the two circles is a block of blue to black gradient. The pink and red circle print has some white details with portions
in navy blue. The figure of a body lying down beneath the red and pink colors appears with the head in the foreground and
feet outsreteched into the background at the bottom half of the circle.
Audiovisual
Separated Materials
LPs are cataloged separately. Items can be found in UCSB Library catalog.
Blues, Myself, and I, Raymond Collins (KRC-BMI)
1981
General
LP cover photo art by
Jim
Dong
.
United Front OHM: Unit of Resistance (RPM Records)
1981
General
LP cover photo art by
Jim
Dong
.
database collection files
Born-digital
1967-2018
Physical Description: 1.02 GigabytesDigital folders consist of approximately 57 JPG and PDS image files and 11 PDF files.
Access Restrictions
Please contact UCSB Library Special Research Collections to access digital files.