January - December 2025

Chinn Wang 

Maki Teshima

Sammy Lee

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January - July 2025

Casey Kawaguchi 

Julia Chon 

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Directed by Sammy Lee, SML | k

Managed by YoungMee Shin

Funded by the Denver Office of Immigrant & Refugee Affairs, City of Denver

Art Market sponsored by the Center for Visual Art (CVA)

 

The Dumpling Diaspora project is the brainchild of Collective SML | k, Denver's first and only artists' collective and project space dedicated to promoting Asian and Asian American art. 

 

The project supports AAPI artists in developing culturally rooted art products, with the goal of creating a sustainable arts ecosystem. 

 

Through mentorship, entrepreneurial training, and community engagement events, the project aims to foster creative collaboration, strengthen local networks, and build pathways to economic sustainability for AAPI artists.

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