Empowering the AAPI Creative Arts Community of Greater Austin
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The Asian Creatives of Greater Austin's (ACGA) mission is to elevate, advocate for, and provide opportunities for the AAPI creative community in Austin, Texas, through education, resources, collaboration, and celebration of multiculturalism.
AAPI creatives represent a broad diversity of genres within the fields of music, film, art, theater, and dance. ACGA hopes to serve and inspire the Austin creative community at large, both by showcasing and sharing work, and by encouraging collaboration with this unique creative community.
By generalizing AAPI ethnic groups as a monolithic population, the prevalent “model minority” myth discounts a vast diversity of cultures that would otherwise add to the richness of the Greater Austin area and beyond, while sidelining both community members and their creative output from the mainstream, resulting in a lack of proportional representation across all platforms. ACGA chooses to celebrate these differences among our members and communities by actively including creatives who represent a multiplicity of origins and by promoting their work.
A recent 2 year study found that only a fraction of a percent of recently signed music artists reaching Billboard status identified as Asian American.*
The international popularity of genres such as K-Pop demonstrates massive opportunities for AAPI artists to develop and create unique, influential, and highly popular work. ACGA values the preservation of our diverse cultural traditions, encourages the work of those who embrace more modern influences, and looks to address the underrepresentation (and often narrow stereotypes) faced by AAPI communities in mainstream culture, particularly in music and film industries, but also in the fields of theater and dance.
By generalizing AAPI ethnic groups as a monolithic population, the prevalent “model minority” myth discounts a vast diversity of cultures that would otherwise add to the richness of the Greater Austin area and beyond, while sidelining both community members and their creative output from the mainstream, resulting in a lack of proportional representation across all platforms. ACGA chooses to celebrate these differences among our members and communities by actively including creatives who represent a multiplicity of origins and by promoting their work.
A recent 2 year study found that only a fraction of a percent of recently signed music artists reaching Billboard status identified as Asian American.*
The international popularity of genres such as K-Pop demonstrates massive opportunities for AAPI artists to develop and create unique, influential, and highly popular work. ACGA values the preservation of our diverse cultural traditions, encourages the work of those who embrace more modern influences, and looks to address the underrepresentation (and often narrow stereotypes) faced by AAPI communities in mainstream culture, particularly in music and film industries, but also in the fields of theater and dance.
ACGA will expand Austin’s identity as an inclusive and innovative musical and creative hub on a global stage.
* "The Lack of Asian American Representation in American Pop Music." May 2020 - Victoria Noriega https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1313&context=honorscollege_theses
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Our Leadership Team
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Pramod Patil
President Schiller Liao
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Kevin Chin
Treasurer Harshal Patwardhan
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Gavin Garcia
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Schiller Liao
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Harish Kotecha
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