ASIAN AMERICAN
ARTS CHICAGO
Our Mission
AAAC supports and amplifies artistic expression from the Asian American diaspora in Chicago, Illinois. We produce festivals, performances, and support a database of Asian American identified artists, performers, and makers to provide better representation, equity, and opportunity.
What We Do
Festivals + Events
Featuring Chicago-based Asian American artists, including the largest festival dedicated to APIDA arts in the Midwest
Arts Education
Bringing Asian American arts and performance programming to the local community and schools in the Chicago area.
Asian Artist Database
An ambitious self-populating database project to CONNECT Chicago area Asian American artists, performers, and makers with each other and potential employers.
Events
- Sun, Oct 19, 2025
- Lookingglass Theatre
You now officially have Permission to Fail. Join your creative peers in this artist salon of unfinished work of all mediums.
Apply to submit your work-in-progress by September 28. Share your film, music, paintings, dance, sculpture, photo, monologue, drawing, stand-up routine. Put you and your work out there!
- Nov 2-23, 2025
- Online
Want to tell personal stories to create genuine connections, cultivate trust to build bridges, and develop intimate communities? Interested in learning how to use personal narratives to examine and present urgent social concerns of our time in an accessible way?
During these four sessions, storyteller and solo performer Ada Cheng guides you through central tenets of storytelling and personal narratives, including emotions like vulnerability and trust, story structure, delivery, audience interactions, and impact.
- May 2-3, 2026
- Lookingglass Theatre
Asian American Arts Festival
Exciting announcements coming soon!
Press
Partners + Collaborators
