In the first session, Diente speaks about what her life has been like during the COVID-19 pandemic, with specific attention to her artist residency and community-building work. She also provides a history of her family in the Philippines and their reasons for immigration. In the second session, Diente expands on what life has been like during COVID, with focus on remote work, and a revisiting of th e topics of her artist residency and community-building. In her third session, Diente reflects on her career and the broader emphasis on art as community healing within Little Manila in Queens. She talks about the losses she has experienced through COVID and readapting to a post-pandemic life
Artists; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Community arts projects; Community organization; Filipino Americans; Philippines--Emigration and immigration; United States Emigration and immigration; United States Politics and government 21st century; Woodside (New York, N.Y.); Diente, Xenia, 1976-
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2022
Physical Description
122 pages
Note (Biographical)
Xenia Diente was born in 1976 and grew up in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens, New York. She is a second generation Filipino American artist and a public art administrator for New York City's Department of Design and Construction
Note
Interviewed by Bridget Bartolini on May 19 and October 5, 2020 and August 29, 2022
Note (Provenance)
Xenia Diente, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023