Events
Anh-Thuy Nguyen | Boat Journey
PAST - Join us virtually at the Shircliff Gallery as Transdisciplinary artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen talks about the Boat Journey series. Nguyen shares her feelings of dual tensions of the impossibility of full assimilation in a new land and the difficulty of returning and reintegrating in one’s own culture. in her onging photographic project Boat Journey. The project focuses on a quest for a place where we, immigrants, seek to belong. Captured by prairies and coasts, a figure dressed in traditional Vietnamese tunic and pant, áo dài, holds onto a small makeshift leather boat. This boat is the ticket, the passport to the escapades. However, it gets stuck on the land, can never be set free.
Shircliff Gallery exhibitions and speaker programs in the Art and Design Department are made possible in part with a generous grant from the Indiana Arts Commission; the Vanderburgh Community Foundation, a partner of the Community-Foundation Alliance, Inc.: and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support is provided by the Vincennes University Foundation.