Coordinating, sponsoring, and presenting high quality programs in all disciplines of art, and encouraging cross cultural exchange between artists from Taiwan and artists in North America of various ethnicities by enabling them to exhibit, perform, publication, and produce their work in the United States.

  • Identifying and granting financial assistance to deserving Taiwanese-American artists and organizations, and assisting them in forming a network for sharing information, resources and funding.

  • Building awareness and appreciation of Taiwanese art in North America by promoting individual artists and by forging alliances with other cultural and art organizations.

  • Encouraging scholarship in the arts by commissioning academic essays outlining artistic significance, and publishing catalogs, books, and advertising material to bring Taiwanese American art to the attention of the broader international community.

Background

The Taiwanese American Arts Council was established in 2014 to carry forward the mission of the Taiwanese Art Endowment Fund which spurred the creation of a named Taiwan Gallery, by the Queens Museum of Art. Taiwanese community leaders Dr. Lung Fong Chen, Patrick Huang and Thomas Chen, to realize the vision with Professional curator Luchia Meihua Lee, and the pioneer of Taiwan modern printmaking artist, Prof. Liao Shiou Ping, provided the expertise and art resources. TAAC aims to provide assistance to Taiwanese artists, scholars, and specialists in the arts.  TAAC will support cultural and art leaders in different fields and in all states in the US and all counties in Taiwan; it is expected to expand annually.

Herewith a few examples of how TAAC has fulfilled the mission outlined above.
2019: TAAC organized an exhibition of contemporary art entitled Urban Tribes-Urban Caravan involving 20 artists and taking place at New York Foundation for the Arts, E. Tay Gallery, and El Taller Latino Americano, and in Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge anchorage (July 4 and September 5).
2017: TAAC arranged a major exhibition of visual art entitled Rewoven at Queens College, Queensborough Community College, and Williamsburg's El Museo de los Sures. Rewoven included artists from Taiwan and artists from New York City, and considered how contemporary artists are reworking the definition of fabric art by using innovative methods, unusual materials, and recycled resources. TAAC facilitated an exchange between New York artists affiliated with COPE-NYC and the Soulangh Cultural Center in Tainan, Taiwan. Artists from Tainan visited New York and their residency culminated in a public exhibition entitled Fully Loaded at the former Pfizer building in Brooklyn. Conversely, artists from New York City undertook a residency in Tainan.
2015-16: TAAC mounted The Moment, an exhibition at 5 venues (Queens Botanical Garden, Queens Museum, New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadow/Corona Park, and Tenri Gallery in Manhattan)

Goals and Objectives

  • Help artists and art organizations in North America as well as to facilitate artists from Taiwan and friends of Taiwan of different ethnicities to exhibit, perform, and produce their work here.

  • Work cooperatively with colleagues around the US to broaden our collective audiences and to form a network for sharing information, resources, and funding.

  • Supports all artistic disciplines in classical, fusion, folk, and innovative forms influenced by the arts of Taiwan.

  • Build awareness of Taiwanese art in North America. Promote and build alliances with other organizations.

Founding Members

Dr. Lung Fong Chen, Patrick Huang, Thomas Chen, Luchia Meihua Lee-Howell

  • Founding President Dr. Lung Fong Chen

  • Founding members: Patrick Huang, Thomas Chen,

  • Founding Executive Director Luchia Meihua Lee

  • Honorary Chairman Prof. Liao Shiou Ping

  • 2014 May-2017 May Board members: Dr. Lung Fong Chen, Patrick Huang, Thomas Chen

  • 2017 June-2019 May Patrick Huang

  • 2020 June-2021 May, Patrick Huang, Ming Chiang, Thomas Chen

  • 2021 June-2022 May, Patrick Thomas Chen

  • 2022 June-2023 Patrick Huang, Thomas Chen, Patsy Chen, Ming Chiang

Taiwanese in NY, interview Patrick Huang, the BAS Founder 【台灣人在紐約 EP5:布魯克林藝站創辦人,黃再添專訪】https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2539421076306380

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2539421076306380

Partners and Supporters

  • Shining Sung, the US representative of CHIMEI Museum

  • Patsy Chen, Artistic Director at Youth Orchestra, CYCNY

  • 布魯克林藝站(Brooklyn Artists Studio--BAS)http://www.bas-ny.org/

  • Jack and Dorothy Kupferberg Family Foundation

  • Amerasia Bank http://abfny.websites.fxfn.com/index.php

  • Bank of Hope