“… the ideas have been spread around, and now you will never know the influence of how far it will go.”
— Ruth Asawa
Andi Wong
"What we play is life.”
— Louis Armstrong
Artist/educator/advocate Andi Wong has a special interest in exploring the materials and languages of art. She served as teaching artist and site arts coordinator at Rooftop Alternative School (2001-2018) and Dianne Feinstein Elementary School (2018-2021), and was a member of the SFUSD’s Arts Education Master Plan Advisory Committee. She has developed curriculum for arts organizations, including the de Young Museum and San Francisco Opera.
A fifth generation Chinese American, Andi researches and records history, helping to archive the important contributions of artists. Her creative partners include Del Sol Quartet; First Voice (Mark Izu and Brenda Wong Aoki); Internet Archive; The Last Hoisan Poets (Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong and Nellie Wong); and composer/musician Marcus Shelby.
As founder/project coordinator for ArtsEd4All (artsed4all.org), Andi organizes workshops, film screenings, and community events such as the Blake Mini Library book drive, Civic Season with Made By Us, and Healdsburg Jazz’s North Star Performing Arts Workshop for Teens. Andi explores how technology can help to build connection with The Blue Marbles Project, ImageSnippets and Terrastories. She established the family program at DWeb Camp, where a global community gathers in nature, to learn, share and have fun building the decentralized web.