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Visit the studio of artist Trinh Mai, Please RSVP

3 March 2017:  Visit the studio of artist Trinh Mai, 1:30-3:30 (please come and stay as long as you’d like between visiting hours), Grand Central Art Center (125 N. Broadway Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92701). Co-sponsored by Campuswide Honors Program.  For more information, contact Theresa Nguyen (th.nguyen@uci.edu).  Please rsvp by signing up at the CHP office 1200 Student Services II.

Meet artist Trinh Mai, explore her art studio, learn about how she creates art, and view works in progress.   An exhibition of her work, entitled “Lifeline,” is on display at the Oceanside Museum of Art (704 Pier View Way, Oceanside, CA 92054) from 17 December 2016-5 March 2017 (http://oma-online.org/trinh-mai/) with a gallery reception on 14 January, 5-7 p.m. and artist talk on 8 February, 10:30-noon.

Bio:  Trinh Mai was an artist in residence with the Vietnamese American Oral History Project at UCI.  She most recently gave a talk to students in Hum H 81: The Viet Nam War course.  Her current work embraces her heritage and aims to excavate her roots and the path which her ancestors have paved to allow her to be where and who she is. Through traditional imagery and symbolism, in both abstract and literal representations, she seeks to clarify the connection she has to her ancestors, the world from which they came, and how this has molded the way she views the world. As a second generation Vietnamese American, art has become the valuable tool that has granted her the chance to live the immigrant experience vicariously through the elders, allowing her to interpret these stories through her own ears, eyes and hands.