AAAinA was thrilled to collaborate with Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) for their September Town Hall on 9/25. This iteration gathered artists whose work preserves cultural traditions and ancestral knowledge. Featured presenters included Mudang Jenn, a diaspora shaman, ritual performance artist, and teacher, who discussed her experience bringing an ancient Korean folk religion to present-day audiences and Sabri Sundos, a Palestinian American painter and textile artist, who presented about his tatreez practice and his approach to community engagement.

Additionally, the evening featured a line-up of brief pitches from the community.

RSVP is required to attend and/or pitch, but you do not have to pitch to attend.  A $5 donation to A4 is suggested. 

For pitching guidelines and other information about A4 Town Halls, please visit A4’s FAQ. If you have additional questions, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org.

Accessibility: The building is ADA accessible with a front carriage door that opens completely. There is one ADA accessible restroom that is gender neutral.

If you need CART Transcription, ASL interpretation, large print, or any other accommodations for this event, please email programs@aaartsalliance.org at least one week before this event.

To keep everyone safe and healthy, if you are not feeling well, please stay at home. We will provide masks and hand sanitizer at check-in.

The following program was recorded on 9/25/2025. Access to the video recording is offered for research purposes. Please inquire by contacting info@aaa-a.org. 

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Mudang Jenn is a diaspora shaman, ritual performance artist, and teacher — a designer of thresholds, 굿 (gut) ceremony architect, and ritual tender whose work stands at the intersection of tradition, transformation, and the radical reimagining of spiritual space. A traditionally initiated mudang with deep roots in Korean shamanic lineage, she navigates the liminal terrain of diaspora, where memory, myth, and modernity converge.

She builds ceremonial architectures—part performance, part portal—that invite participants to cross thresholds into the unseen, to meet their spirits, and to remember their place in the lineage of all things. Each work blurs the boundaries between healing, art, and communal transformation, weaving grief and celebration, resistance and devotion, into acts that live beyond the moment of their making.

Jenn has shared her work at institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia Theological Seminary, Recess Art, Creative Time, The Nicholson Project, and Canal Projects NYC, and has been featured in HuffPost and Popdust. Through each threshold she opens, she invites us to step fully into the body of memory, the body of spirit, and the body of future myth. www.mudangjenn.com

Sabri Sundos is a Palestinian American painter and textile artist. Rooted in his personal experience being raised in the diaspora, Sundos explores themes of cultural identity, labor and time.

Through the merging of traditional craft and cultural iconography, his work emphasizes the importance of agency and human touch, highlighting the inherent tactile nature of art-making as a means of reclaiming and preserving heritage.

Sundos creates work that continues to foster dialogue around tradition, memory, and an undying hope for the future.

He is also the founder of Unibrow Sun, an organization focused on uplifting narratives of solidarity through art and education. www.samsundos.com

AAAinA’s general programming and operations are funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Vilcek Foundation, and other foundations and individuals.