As part of the 2022 Emerging Artists and Writers Residency Program, the Centrum Foundation has selected two Asian-Americans for a month-long residency in Port Townsend.
Frank Abe and Josephine Lee will join eight other Fort Worden residents in October.
Frank Abe
Abe, a writer-in-residence, is the co-author of the graphic novel We Are Here to Reject: Japanese-American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.
Since helping to create the first Memorial Day for camps in the Relief and Reparations Movement, he has worked to reframe public understanding of Japanese-American incarceration in World War II.
For his Centrum residency, he will be working on a project that will bring these stories to the stage. He has contributed to Ishmael Reed’s Konch Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, and more, and is a past participant at the Port Townsend Writers Conference.
he is blogging resistance net.
Josephine Lee
Through a lifetime in the United States, Canada, and Korea, Lee’s interdisciplinary practice addresses the psychological violence of cultural assimilation and naturalization through immigration, as well as ecological and racial justice in technology. Lee is an artist resident.
