Meet Liyen Chong (@liyenchong)! Liyen is an artist, community organizer, and arts advocate who joined CAMH in 2021 as our Foundation Relations and Arts Advocacy Manager. Prior to that, she co-founded Arts Accountability Houston (AAH / @artacchou) alongside local artists to ensure all artists had a voice in public arts funding. She currently serves as a co-organizer at AAH and is involved in county and city-level discussions on arts funding.⁠ ⁠ Liyen initially established herself as an artist in Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu, New Zealand, winning grants and residencies both locally and internationally. A magpie with many creative interests and pursuits, she has had a multi-episodic visual art practice. Her work can be found in prominent public collections such as the @nationalgalleryaus, @chartwellproject, and the City of Houston Airport Collection. Recently, she participated in CAMH’s 2022 Art Auction, exhibited in @diverseworks’ Overlapping Territories (2022), and was a featured speaker in the 2022 @freshartsorg Summit.⁠ ⁠ Liyen is also a featured artist in the upcoming exhibition, Lo que me queda de tu amor (What’s left of your love for me), opening this Saturday, September 17 at Lawndale Art Center. Learn more about this exhibition and its related events on Lawndale’s page at @lawndaleartcenter.⁠ ⁠ #atCAMH #TrustArtists