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Tomie Arai (born 1949) is an American artist and community activist who was born, raised, and is still active in New York City. Her works works consist multimedia site specific art pieces that deal with topics of gender, community, and racial identity. She is highly involved in community discourse, and co-founded the Chinatown Art Brigade.

Public Projects
Renewal by Arai was commissioned in 1995 and was installed in the Ted Weiss Federal Building on 1998. Made of overlapping silkscreen images on canvas, this work was created to honor the ancestors of the African American descendant community of New York by commemorating the African Burial Ground site.

Later, in 2006, Arai constructed the site-specific work Swirl out of wood, steel, and silk screened photographs of local members of the community. Located in Philadelphia, this artwork was made in response to the then-Mayor John F. Street's plans to build a baseball stadium for the Philadelphia Phillies, that would result in the demolition of various establishments within Chinatown. The artwork itself is a large display of family photographs, shaped like the Chinese jade bi, situated in the Vine Street Expressway.

Arai created Back to the Garden in 2007, located in Pelham Parkway. The artwork consists of windows with glass recreations of local seasonal foliage inside. Screened and fired into these windows and foliage recreations are archival photographs of the surrounding area, taken from 1899 to 1969.

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