In January 2025, SKVAF was among 19 new sites added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios (HAHS) program, which celebrates the preserved homes and studios of artists who lived and worked throughout the United States. This inclusion marked several significant firsts for the program, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025. It is the first HAHS affiliate site to represent Asian artists—Kubota was Japanese and Paik was Korean.
“By shining a light on this particular studio, we begin to be a touchstone to the vast amount of Asian American, South Pacific Islander contributions to this country’s national artistic narrative,” said Valerie Balint, director of the HAHS program.
SKVAF is also the first space in the HAHS network that is devoted to video art, which Balint sees as key to “understanding those artistic movements that so fundamentally inform and impact our lives today.” “We’re talking about two people at the vanguard of video production,” she said, “which is now part of our everyday lives, from the macro level to the personal level, with our ability to create our own videos and statements on our phones and release them to the world.”
