APP '13 Tran Vu
APP '13 Tran Vu has been awarded the 2021 Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant and will be using it to continue exploring the interplay between critical theory and creative practice. The grant is awarded by the New England Foundation for the Arts. Tran Vu also is a 2021 National Arts Strategies Forward Thinking Fellow.
Tran writes of her practice, “I am a storyteller, connector and an interpreter. My work evokes themes of familial ties, memories, and rituals amongst issues of social justice and intersectionality. As a 1.5-generation Vietnamese American interdisciplinary artist and organizer, I am passionate in creating spaces and platforms for cross-cultural storytelling and critical discourse that challenge inequity. I thread my social practice through photography, painting, and sculpture so that my art can resonate and engage audiences with intentionality. My experiences as a person of color working with communities inside, outside and beyond the United States have informed my framing of realities, visions and possibilities. My deepest influences include my family and friends as well as fellow artists and changemakers from the past, present, and beyond.”
Check out Vu's work here.