February 13, 2021 Jo Yeh Meet the artists featured in the exhibition America, I Sing You Back. It’s okay was created after I moved back to Taiwan from New York City in the summer of 2020, shortly after the peak of the COVID pandemic. Watching U.S. news through the lens of Taiwanese media, everything seemed crazier and crazier as my memory of America faded. The fear and worry I had as an Asian person no longer existed; instead, I felt a huge sense of loss because of the change of place and mind. I wondered if my regained, yet new found security also meant that the identity I once held in hand was vanishing as I loosened the grip of my “American dream.” It’s okay is a message to my old self, to my Asian folks in the States, to the memories I shared with them in the country I once thought I’d call home. About Jo Yeh: Yeh is a Taiwanese illustrator and zinester who is currently based in Taipei after living in the U.S. for seven years and returning to Asia in 2020. Her editorial work can be seen across print and digital media in North America, and has also been recognized by awards including 3x3 Illustration, Hiii International Illustration, and Society of Illustrators. She has tabled at book fairs in New York City such as MOCCA Festival (Society of Illustrators), Press Play (Pioneer Works), Independent Art Book Fair, and Brooklyn Art Book Fair. One of Yeh’s zines, A Good Boy, is now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Yeh received an undergraduate degree in drawing and animation from Shih Chien University and her MFA from MCAD.