AANHPI HEROES
MURAL CAMPAIGN

Round 1: Be a Badass Hero

Round 2 IN PROGRESS! Submissions are open until October 23, 2026. Submit HERE.
This project has been financed in part by the City of Austin’s Elevate Grant Program.

Map of Murals
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Featuring over a century of heroic impact AANHPIs have had on America through a series of beautiful murals by AANHPI artists.

PROGRAM PARTNERS
Mural commissioning and production by Amplify Asian.
Round 1 (2024-2025) fiscally sponsored by HOPE Campaign.

The Murals:

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team @ Haji Moto Ramen & Sake Bar

Brother and sister team ANDEWSAK and Victoria Kiyoko Art honor their Japanese-American heritage by painting a mural of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. 

One of the most decorated units in U.S. military history, the 442nd was composed largely of Japanese American soldiers who served with extraordinary valor in Europe, many of them volunteering while their families back on the mainland remained imprisoned in internment camps.

The mural is displayed at Haji Moto Ramen & Sake Bar, 114 E 7th St #116, Georgetown, TX 78626.

Corky Lee @ Wanderlust Wine Co. - Barton Springs

Austin painter Swathi Konduri showcases the contributions of photojournalist Corky Lee with a mural honoring his legacy as the “undisputed, unofficial Asian American Photographer Laureate.”

For more than 50 years, Lee showed up, camera in hand, to document the Asian American experience at a time when almost no one else did, from community celebrations to anti-Asian violence to labor struggles. He died in January 2021 from COVID-19.

The mural is displayed at Wanderlust Wine Co. at 1601 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704.

Larry Itliong & Al Rojas @ Austin Beerworks Sprinkle Valley

A collaboration between Carmen Rangel and Everyday Research, this large mural honors farmworker rights activists Larry Itliong and Al Rojas.

In 1965, Itliong led the historic Delano Grape Strike, uniting Filipino and Mexican farmworkers in a coalition that reshaped American labor history. Together, Itliong and Rojas were co-founders of the United Farm Workers, yet both have been largely written out of the story.

The mural is displayed at Austin Beerworks Sprinkle Valley, 10300 Springdale Rd, Austin, TX 78754.

Mural of Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X at The Frances Modern Inn.

Yuri Kochiyama & Malcolm X @ The Frances Modern Inn

A collaboration between Thao Huynh French and Chris Rogers, this large mural honors civil rights activists Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X.

Kochiyama was a Japanese American activist who formed a profound and unlikely friendship with Malcolm X, becoming one of his closest confidants across racial lines at a time when that alone was radical. She was at his side when he was assassinated in 1965, captured in one of the most iconic photographs in American civil rights history.

The mural is located at The Frances Modern Inn, 1123 E 11th St, Austin, TX 78702, across Kenny Dorham’s Backyard and in front of the Black Artists Matter street mural.

Herlinda Wong Chew @ Distribution Hall

Painted by San Antonio based Filipino-Chinese American artist Lourdes Maria Ong, the mural features Herlinda Wong Chew, a Chinese-Mexican woman who survived the Mexican Revolution and became a fierce advocate for both Chinese and Mexican immigrants in El Paso during the early 1900s, navigating two marginalized communities at once in one of the most turbulent periods on the Texas border.

Check out this mural on the back of Distribution Hall, located at 1500 E 4th St, Austin, TX 78702, across CapMetro’s Plaza Saltillo station.

With support from:

OCA-Greater+Houston+Logo
City of Austin Economic Development
ACDC Texas Logo
Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce logo
Asian American Cultural Center: Where East Meets West logo
Asian Texans for Justice logo

Special thanks to local artist, Jasmine Chock, for supporting the project.

Advisors:

 

Jusak Yang Bernhard & Jeff Manley

Dr. Thao Ha

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