community art

"If You Will Fight, Then Take My Hand"

Portrait done for Women Healing, Empowering Women (WHEW) for the BEAH Ripple: Sexual Healing Grief Ritual Movements. Painting inspired by Beah Richards' poem "Thus a Black Woman Speaks: Of White Womanhood, White Supremacy and Peace".

"A Breath for Community"

A series done for a memorial event hosted by Lavender Phoenix to grieve the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings of Asian masseuses.

"Seven Generations of Reciprocity"

A mural done in collaboration with Sogrea 'Te Land Trust, an urban indigenous women led land trust on Chochenyo Ohlone land in the Bay Area, depicting seven generations of ancestors and descendants with traditional Ohlone foods like shellfish and acorns. The middle section shows a grandmother teaching two grandchildren how to only harvest enough blueberries so that there would be some leftover for the animals to eat as well. The mural teaches about the reciprocity of nature and living in balance with fauna and flora.

"Mutual Aid in Nature"

A mural at the Disability Justice Culture Club in Oakland CA depicting instances of mutual aid and reciprocity between woodland creatures. Inspired by Stacey Park Milbern and the story of animals escaping the 2020 Australian wildfires through wombat tunnels. 

"Food Equity and Cultural Memory: A Public Feast"

Food Equity and Cultural Memory is a project done as part of the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts (YBCA) Equity Fellowship 2016-17. Hoi-Fei Mok worked with fellow Shalini Agrawal in collaboration with rising first graders from local school Bessie Carmichael, artist E. Oscar Maynard, and fellow Fran Osborne. During the past school year, the students collected oral and cultural histories of family recipes that resulted in the recipe cards by Oscar. Using the recipes as a point of inspiration, we designed a public meal for attendees of YBCA Public Square in August 2017. In feeding the public, this project highlights the issue of food access and insecurity in the neighborhood as well as the available cultural resources and memory in the form of recipes passed down from generations. By providing seeds, we reconnect the ideas of growing and cooking one’s own food to resilience, the earth, and self-sustainability. The students are centered as featured artists and like the seeds, they are the rising stewards of resilience for the community. Photos by Lydia Yamaguchi.

More on the YBCA Equity Fellowship here.

"You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone"

Street art installation on an electrical box for the City of San Leandro, CA on the topic of bee dieoff, climate change, and interconnectedness of food systems. Art produced in 2016 and installed in 2017. 

"No Wall Can Contain Our Hearts"

Illustration completed for the People of Coloring's Awakened Ancestors // Borrowed Futures event during the United States Asian American Festival 2015. Content refers to the separation of LGBTQIA families and loved ones during immigration and deportation. 

Dragon Fruit Project

Illustrations inspired by Lavender Phoenix (formerly API Equality Northern California)'s Dragon Fruit Project, an intergenerational oral history project exploring queer and trans Asian Pacific Islanders and their experiences with love and activism from the 1960s to the present. 

Taking You Places Project

Zine completed for the City of Darebin and the Melbourne Midsumma Queer Arts and Culture Festival in 2013. The zine depicted a story of family, queerness, coming out, and acceptance.