Clubhouse Selects Asian American Artist And Activist Drue Kataoka As Its Latest Icon

Kataoka created The Art Club on Clubhouse, a that currently has almost 100K members.Born in Tokyo and raised on the West Coast, Kataoka’s father is Japanese and her mother a Caucasian American. She has been named both a Cultural Leader and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and is one of the few artists to have had a solo exhibition at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos.

Her intention as the newest icon of Clubhouse is to inspire people to use the platform for positive social change. “We were very naïve at the start of social media fifteen years ago.” Kataoka says. “But lately we have witnessed how some of these apps can take us to dark places. It is up to us, the users, where we take new and exciting, emerging platforms like Clubhouse. Social audio really gives us a fresh start, a blank slate.

While the pandemic has been challenging for Kataoka and the art world as a whole, she sees an opportunity within the crisis. “Art galleries, art institutions and even artists have been notoriously slow to adapt technology and address pressing issues of sexism and racism lying in plain sight. In 2020, many of them were finally driven to jump into tech, even if they weren’t comfortable with it, and we are also starting to have some tough conversations.

Ever the optimist, Kataoka hopes that Clubhouse and social audio can play an important role in helping the art world make this transition. She’s excited about bringing the two together, “Art is technology and technology is art. That has been my mantra for decades.” MeiMei Fox is a New York Times bestselling author, coauthor and ghostwriter of over a dozen non-fiction books and thousands of articles for publications includingMeiMei Fox is a New York Times bestselling author, coauthor and ghostwriter of over a dozen non-fiction books and thousands of articles for publications including Huffington Post, Self, Stanford magazine, and MindBodyGreen. She specializes in health, psychology, self-help and finding your life purpose.

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