Exhibition:Angkorian Homecoming
2025-04-09 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Detroit) | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Informed by her experience as a refugee, Phung Huynh’s projects explore the complexities of displacement, assimilation, and cultural negotiation among Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees who have resettled in the United States. She creates detailed graphite portraits on pink donut boxes to highlight the stories of Southeast Asians who have survived war trauma and genocide. Huynh’s serigraph prints about Donut Kids foreground intergenerational gaps as well as bridging the refugee parent and American child through the narratives of Cambodian American children who were raised by donut shop owners in California. Huynh’s most recent work of drawings of Cambodian Buddhist statue heads and photographic prints of decapitated statue bodies on fabric addresses the repatriation of looted Cambodian antiquities in the context of challenging the legacy of colonialism, unethical museum practices, and the refugee’s desire to return home. Complete details at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/current-exhibitions/phung-huynh.html.

Exhibition:Breaking with Tradition
2025-04-09 09:00 - 16:30 | East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery
Artist John Rizzo is exhibiting individual mixed-media sculptures that bridge across art, design, and craft. Using a combination of materials that are historically perceived as precious John's work distorts, disrupts, and re-contextualizes perceptions of materials and their values. His work is at once , colorful , playful , layered and deeply self-reflective in its personal narrative.
