Below is a list of Professor Huang’s accomplishments by month:
December 2021-
• NEA Music grant award for “From the 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre to Contemporary Asian American Experiences”. The performance event employs the LA Chinatown massacre as an entry point into the rich, sometimes tragic Asian American experience in California. The USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena has committed to be the metropolitan LA site co-sponsor.
January 2022-
• Artist residency by invitation from La Macina di San Cresci in the historic complex of the Pieve di San Cresci, X sec. the oldest in the Chianti area. Tuscany , IT. Its mission is to encourage and imagine new forms of dialogue within the context of art and culture. La Macina di San Cresci closely collaborates with University of Florence, Tuscany Region and the Municipality of Greve in Chianti to the facilitate realization of artistic projects.
• Artist residency by invitation from Dar Meso Sarl, developed and managed by the Belgian association Indignatus Productions. DAR MESO is an international artists residency based in Bab Souika, Tunis, Tunisia that promotes artists, including but not limited to composers, writers, poets and visual artists to engage with their creativity and with one another in an old convent built for contemplation, a calm and unique place that encourages innovation and fosters cultural exchange.
• Marian and Charles Holmes Fund for the Performing Arts grant award for podcast production of self-authored play, Jianchi/Perseverance, to be released in May 2022, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
• Artist residency by invitation from the International Center for the Arts at Monte Castello di Vibio. Founded in 1994, the institution hosts artists, researchers, musicians and academics during the summer and fall months each year. Programming includes retreats, workshops, festivals, performances and other cultural programming. Residents have included distinguished artists William Bailey, Andrew Forge, Ruth Miller, Sandro Chia, John Spike and Wayne Thiebaud.
February 2022 –
• Article in Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, “Jazz Poems by Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown” was listed in the JSTOR Schomburg Open Access library and registered 2651 downloads.
• Artist residency by invitation from the Cultural Park at the Podere Conti Racani, Umbria, directed by the International Theater Residencies organization in Rome. It is situated on the hills above the left bank of the Tiber River, and still bears the name of its old owners, the Counts Ràcani, noble Umbrian family, whose coat of arms included the lizard (Ràcani in the local dialect). The Cultural Art Park is conceived as a place where art is borne, where art shows itself, testing new languages, creating a kind of symphony with the beauty of Umbrian nature.
March 2022 –
• Featured guest interview, the Chinese History Podcast produced by Teacup Media (leading podcast on the topic, has reached half a million listeners total): Episode 297, “Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in Wartime Shanghai,” to be released in early April 2022
• “Honoring Ukraine,” a benefit event featuring music and poetry at the Claremont Colleges. Music by Kalinnikov, Prokofiev, Bolonnikova, Lysenko; poetry by Yaminsky, Yakimchuk, Saran, Shevchenko.
• California Writing Residency by invitation from Yefe Nof in Lake Arrowhead for April 4-18, 2022. The Yefe Nof Residency takes place in a secluded cabin in the mountains where writers bring their projects one resident at a time, to be reinvigorated by the mountain air and the lake. Since 2017, the Yefe Nof Residency in partnership with LA328 has hosted the annual California Writing Residency. To inspire and sustain the tradition of the California voice, three writers from the coasts to the valleys to the forests to the deserts are selected for two-week residencies.