Laura Kina is a queer, disabled, mixed-race Okinawan American artist and educator whose work focuses on Asian American art and identity. Kina is a Vincent de Paul Professor at the Art School at DePaul University in Chicago and is the coeditor of War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Queering Contemporary Asian American Art and the illustrator of Lee A. Tonouchi’s award-winning children’s book Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos.Jave Yoshimoto is a recipient of the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, recognition award from the Friends of United Nations in New York,  and teaches painting compositions and professional practices at University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a visual artist, competitive axe thrower and cat lover.  His works represent the visual history of humanitarian struggles.

Laura Kina is a queer, disabled, mixed-race Okinawan American artist and educator whose work focuses on Asian American art and identity. Kina is a Vincent de Paul Professor at the Art School at DePaul University in Chicago and is the coeditor of War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Queering Contemporary Asian American Art and the illustrator of Lee A. Tonouchi’s award-winning children’s book Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos.Jave Yoshimoto is a recipient of the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, recognition award from the Friends of United Nations in New York,  and teaches painting compositions and professional practices at University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a visual artist, competitive axe thrower and cat lover.  His works represent the visual history of humanitarian struggles.

Laura Kina is a queer, disabled, mixed-race Okinawan American artist and educator whose work focuses on Asian American art and identity. Kina is a Vincent de Paul Professor at the Art School at DePaul University in Chicago and is the coeditor of War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Queering Contemporary Asian American Art and the illustrator of Lee A. Tonouchi’s award-winning children’s book Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos.Jave Yoshimoto is a recipient of the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, recognition award from the Friends of United Nations in New York,  and teaches painting compositions and professional practices at University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a visual artist, competitive axe thrower and cat lover.  His works represent the visual history of humanitarian struggles.