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Preserving Our Stories Exhibit
Project type
Exhibit, Cultural engagement, artistic development, event programming, curation, storytelling
Date
May 1 to May 31, 2025
Location
St. Paul, MN
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About the Exhibit
This exhibit is an extension of my work archiving my own family history and serves as the culmination of my Master of Professional Studies in Arts and Cultural Leadership. Through my capstone research, I examined the role that professionals and institutions play in cultural preservation, with a focus on how immigrant and refugee narratives are often excluded from official records.
The exhibit also builds on my fellowship with the Ramsey County Historical Society and the Center for Hmong Studies, where I developed a guidebook and memory kit to support individuals and families in preserving their personal archives. These resources were created to provide accessible tools for documenting, organizing, and sharing family histories.
This project includes selected materials from my family archive—photographs, documents, and belongings that reflect the life of my late father and my experience as a 1.5-generation Hmong American daughter of refugees from Laos.
It raises the following questions: What do we keep? Who decides what matters? How do we remember stories that were never written down?
The goal of this work is to encourage reflection on the value of personal and family archives and to highlight their importance in the broader context of cultural preservation.
This exhibit was on view at Xia Gallery and Café in Saint Paul, Minnesota, from May 1 to May 31, 2025.

























