Amina Lei - Lunar Calendar Artist
Each year we design a calendar that commemorates the next cycle of the Lunar New Year. This year we partnered with our super talented friend, Amina Lei bring our calendar to life.
Amina Lei is a self taught Chinese painter, teaching artist and illustrator from Oakland, CA. Amina’s childhood represented the complexity and beauty of growing up in the diverse culture of the bay area. It was the revolutionary spirit of Oakland that shaped Amina’s passion for justice.
Culture, history, and the eternal struggle for social justice are inspirations of her work and reflects not only a personal creative journey but also represents the social, political and cultural realities of people of color, both contemporary and historical. Amina’s art has always been about getting people to rethink the injustices in the world, but more importantly to empower individuals to believe that they can do something powerful with their lives.
Amina works with organizations that collaborate with schools to create art workshops that integrate knowledge of self and art therapy. She has worked with Social Public Art Resource Center in Venice, CA and has been a regular workshop presenter at the Annual Students of Color Conference (SOCC) hosted by the University of California Student Association. She is currently working at Muhammad University of Islam as an art teacher.
When Amina is not teaching art, she is illustrating children’s books or creating fine art and murals. In addition, Amina works with cosmetics companies and retails spaces to create live art events. Her clients include, Saks Beverly Hills, Barneys, Dior, Lancome, Bloomingdales, Bvgalri and more. She has exhibited solo and group shows in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles.
She currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Follow her on IG.
Year of the Tiger Artwork
Inspired by traditional Chinese paintings, Amina Lei made a work of art with an original watercolor painting to celebrate the year of the water tiger.
