Lily Xie

L: photo courtesy of the artist; R: photo by Katytarika Bartel

Project Description

Lily Xie's project "Washing", in partnership with Asian Community Development Corporation and local residents, is a multimedia art project about the embodied effects of community power, urban design, and environmental racism in Boston's Chinatown. "Washing" will culminate in a public projection event, showcasing the stories and imaginations of Chinatown residents.

Artist Bio

Lily Xie (she/her) is a Chinese-American artist, researcher, and educator whose socially engaged work explores radical imagination, reimagined histories, and other routes to collective resilience. Lily shares strategies adapted from her drawing and bookmaking practices to seek power and justice with marginalized communities. She is part of New England Foundation for the Arts’ Creative City 2020 cohort for artists creating socially-engaged public art, and has been awarded grants from The Boston Foundation’s Live Arts Boston program and the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture Transformative Public Art program. Her work has been displayed at the Boston Center for the Arts, Unbound Visual Arts, and Pink Noise Studios. Lily is currently a masters student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Planning and resides in Jamaica Plain, MA.