Lily Xie
Lily Xie is a Chinese-American artist and educator whose socially-engaged work explores desire, memory, and self-actualization for frontline communities. In collaboration with grassroots organizers and community members, she uses her background as a designer and urban planner to facilitate creative projects with a focus on public space, housing, and racial justice. The magic they create together often takes shape in animation, print media, and video. Lily currently lives in Lenapehoking (Philadelphia, PA)
Awarded Grants
2025
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Lily Xie will work with Asian Americans United (AAU) to produce a multimedia playbook that documents and shares organizing strategies from the No Arena Chinatown campaign. The playbook will take the form of a printed zine with illustrations and comics, which will accompany audio from interviews and conversation circles with movement participants hosted on AAU's website. Readers will be able to access the audio by scanning a QR code. The playbook will be printed and distributed widely as an accessible organizing tool alongside a public premiere and other outreach events in Chinatown and across Philadelphia.