Lia Chang: Artwork by Asia Flores on display in Mercy High School Annual Art & Soul Exhibition

Artist Asia Flores, age 15. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores

My very talented niece, Asia Flores, age 15, had a display of her artwork in several mediums including oil pastels, tempera, watercolor, collage, pencil and paints, and graphite, in the Mercy High School Annual Art & Soul Art Exhibition, on Sunday, May 15, 2011.

Artwork by Asia Flores

This exhibition showcases all of the art, ceramics and AP Studio Art students’ work.

By Asia Flores/ Project: Ballerina (inspiration: Yunona Troshina)/ Tempera, 2011. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores

The artwork was on display in the theater lobby, the VPA hallway, and the McAuley Art Gallery. Mercy High School is located at 3250 19th Avenue in San Francisco.

By Asia Flores/ Project: The World is the hands of God / Medium: watercolor, 2011. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores

By Asia Flores/ Project: Our Family Crest (photographers- Carlos and @Lia Chang and Lotus- Marissa)/ Medium: pencil and paints, 2011. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores

Mya Lagadaon poses with Asia Flores's Project: Tell me another morning/ Collage, 2011. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores

By Asia Flores/ Project: Enlargement of flower/ Medium: Oil Pastels, 2011. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores

By Asia Flores/ Project: View through my window/ Medium: Tempera paint, 2011. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores

By Asia Flores, Yawning Leopard, Medium: graphite, 2011. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores.

Michelle Lagandaon, Mya Lagandaon, Asia Flores and Leah Baptista. Photo by Marissa Chang-Flores

Artist Asia Flores (center) is flanked by her mother Marissa Chang-Flores, and her Aunties Karina Umehara, Tami Chang and Lia Chang

Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.

Selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space are in the newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

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Other Articles by Lia Chang:
Photos: Happy Birthday to My Niece Asia
Backstage at The Lion King with Thom Sesma
Bellagio Christmas Holiday Botanical Display in Las Vegas, photos by Asia Flores
Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Lia Chang in Art & Healing Exhibit at Snug Harbor on SI
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