Roosevelt Branch hosts an Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month art exhibit through the month of May featuring artist Jacob Yeung.
Jacob Yeung is a multimedia documentary artist based in Chicago. Yeung’s projects mostly revolve around Chinese American narratives. Featured in this exhibit for the Roosevelt Library is a single image, taken from a collection of portraits featuring various Chinese American women in Chicago. The image chosen is a portrait of Grace Chun, born in 1938 and raised on the Northside of Chicago. Grace has been a long time supporter and founding board member of a literacy group called Boundless Readers, the Rochelle Fund to Make Reading a Part of Children's Lives. The program has since merged under the WITS program “to create a holistic approach to literacy programs in classes and schools.” Grace also volunteers and belongs to the exhibition committee at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago in Armour Square.
