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My name is Quynh-Mai Nguyen and I am a social practice artist, storyteller, creative producer, poet, musician, and community organizer. I enjoy creating community and cultural spaces and experiences that allows for people of color, young and wise, to reclaim and exist in their own narrative and authentic self expression. 

A lot of the projects that I work on come from my labor of love however I'm constantly being remind that in order to take care of community, I must also take care of myself. This is my way of asking for support to continue creating art, community projects, and community spaces.

These are some projects that I work on:

🧨Lunar X Art Hop: a Lunar New Year art show featuring AAPI artists as well as artists local to the area. This project focuses on normalizing art experiences in cultural neighborhoods and AAPI where arts is often undervalued. This project was also created to help communicate and bridge the gap between younger and older generations, create new traditions using art to celebrate the Lunar New Year, carve out space for younger generation of Vietnamese artists to coexist in existing Vietnamese plazas, and to nurture young and emerging artists. This show takes place in a number of small poc-owned businesses. 

👁 👄 👁Lips Uncurled, Eyes Forward: an AAPI social art exhibition featuring multidisciplinary art projects and intergenerational stories from artists, poets, and community leaders in order to tackle stereotypes, stigmas, and agency.

📖The Name Dictionary is a social practice art project that visualizes the microaggression, "people with foreign names should be in the dictionary with their picture in it." This social practice art project breaks down the microaggression by visualizing and incorporating "foreign" names into an actual dictionary format which includes a true definition or personal narrative. This project opens up conversation on the topics of culturally equity and representation in media and how it affects people with anglicized names growing up. This is an ongoing project.

👁The Asian Eye Chart is a social practice art project that visualizes the microagression, "I can't tell you guys apart, I don't have my eye chart." This social practice art project breaks down the microaggression and is visualized into an actual asian eye chart for people to identify and opens up conversation around the topics of stereotypes, Asian identity, held beliefs and unknown biases. This is an ongoing project.