EXHIBITIONS & PROGRAMS
What we have shown, built, and filmed
Exhibitions we mounted at our former Cultural Art Center, the public installations we brought about, and our documentary work. Together they trace how the mission has been put in front of audiences — in galleries, on campus grounds, and on film.
EXHIBITION · OPENED NOVEMBER 16, 2011
I Have The Right
The exhibition asked artists from different cultures to answer the same subject — human rights — each in their own tradition and imagery.
Our exhibit, “I HAVE THE RIGHT,” highlights the Human Rights challenges and successes by showcasing the unique interpretations of the subject by artists from different cultures. The exhibit includes art that addresses:
- from oppression, to choose my leaders, to worship openly, to live in peace and to get an education.
- speak freely, be myself and to create.
- anything is possible, war can end, hunger can be eliminated.
- myself and the person I choose.
Featuring the paintings of You Khin, the exhibition ran through late summer 2012.
At the Cultural Art Center
Our former Cultural Art Center at California State University, Dominguez Hills also presented these two exhibitions.
- Further the Tradition
- Artwork from the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine (Indochina College of Fine Art) in Vietnam, which mentored the finest artists of Vietnam during the French colonial period, investigating the cultural impacts between the French and Vietnamese on imagery, style and media.
- On Being Human: Love, Faith, Shame and Hope
- Artists from around the world expressing these universal themes.
Each was built on the Center’s founding idea — that the art of diverse cultures connects, and that seeing the work side by side makes the connection plain.
Fine Art Installations
Where Cultures Meet — Benjamin Victor, 2010
We commissioned the sculpture through an open call to artists. Thai Ha provided the funds to pay the artist, then donated the sculpture to CSU Dominguez Hills, where it remains installed. Its plaque reads: “We share the same planet. We share many common themes in our lives. Let us embrace our similarities and respect our differences.”
International Sculpture Garden
We brought Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota together with a collector of monument-size bronzes by the artist Tuan Nguyen, resulting in the garden in Baumgart Plaza.
Art Glass Murals
Two murals by Milon Townsend, both 2010, each six by twelve feet, commissioned by us and on long-term loan to the Johnson Art Center on the Northern State campus. One is titled Further the Tradition, the other First Encounter.
Documentary
Traditional Vietnamese lacquer painting is a dying art — extremely time-consuming and temperamental, leading artists to move away from it. We produced a documentary capturing the entire process to preserve this part of Vietnamese art history, in collaboration with Hanoi-based director Nghiêm Nhân. Completed in 2009 and running over an hour, it exists on DVD, and we intend to edit it for release on YouTube.