Oct 28
The Imaginative Landscape: A Search for a Hmong Homeland
Mon, October 28, 2024
• 4:00pm
• Boliou 104
This talk proudly sponsored by the Christopher U. Light Lectureship in the Arts
Pao Houa Her was born somewhere in the northern jungles of Laos. She fled Laos with her family when she was a baby, crossed the Mekong on her mother’s back, was fed opium to keep from crying, lived in the refugee camps in Thailand and landed in America on a silver metal bird in the mid 1980s. She is a visual artist in Minnesota who works within multiple genres of photography. Her received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University.
from Art & Art History
Event Contact: Shun Yong