Mali Kouanchao - Current Work

Artwork created for Peace and Justice Projects

FALL 2007:

LAOS TRANSPIRED: Contemporary and Ethnic Works from the Laotian Diaspora, group show at Brush Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts

2007:

Minnesota State Arts Board Grant (2007) - Research and Development for artwork about Cambodian American Deportees, Phnom Penh, Cambodia - April 3-April 30, 2007
Gather information on Lao Americans with "deport" status
Start production of mix-medium (digital, painting and prints) artwork about Lao Ameircans with "deport" status and Cambodian American Deportees, 2007-2009
Travel to Laos to photograph victims of unexploded ordinance (UXO) for Legacies of War
Design set for TeAda Producstions Refugee Nation project as well as design contemporary art installation (see work in progress collaboration with TeAda Productions) for Legacies of War.

LIVING SPIRITS: COLLATERAL BODIES - April 2007 collaboration with TeAda Productions: Refugee Nation, photos courtesy Leilani Chan, Ova Saopen, and Channapha Khamvongsa
RELATED LINKS: BOMBIES, MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, LEGACIES OF WAR

Kingfield Neighborhood Mural: Flight & Transformation, 70' x 16.5', Summer 2004.

Displacement Series: mixed media paintings began in Fall 2003.
Self-Portrait, 48"x32", 2003 Family Housing Collection	Home, 48"x32", 2003 Family Housing Collection	S21, 48"x30", 2003	Orphaned, 30"x48", 2003 Sao Lao, 32"x45", 2004 commissioned artwork. 1000steps, 42.5"x32", 2004 *work-in-progress Monsoon , 42.5"x32", 2004
Pith, 48"x32", 2003	Conical #1, 48"x32", 2003 Heritage Park Collection	Conical #2, 48"x32", 2003 Lao LaanXang Restaurant
Greens, 48"x32", 2003	Fish, 48"x32", 2003	Lilies, 42.5"x32", 2003 Amy Khai Luong
Passage, 48"x32", 2004 Heritage Park Collection	Planting, 48"x32", 2003 Lao LaanXang Restuarantss	Lilies, 42.5"x32", 2004
Road, 48"x32", 2004	Cyclo, 48"x32", 2004	Jars, 48"x32", 2003