WE ARE HERE // HERE, WE ARE is a co-led, visual art project by a mother and adult-child pair of artists. The project explores time and space through their relationship to one another, an intergenerational conversation, as one rises and the other wanes on a land far from their homeland. Simultaneously, it’s a critical engagement of the powers that have led to diaspora and questioning of the Asian diaspora’s participation in the American empire on stolen land.

Exhibit Reception for Kang Yoo A’s "i.m.migration: why we are"
Friday, May 10, 6-8PM

Printmaker Kang, Yoo A's exhibit "i.m.migration: why we are here" explores issues of immigration, U.S. neo-imperialism, the Korean diaspora, and what it means to be a mother to children of color.

Yoo A Kang first immigrated to the United States in 1990. She raised two children in Minnesota before joining her adult child in South Bend in 2015. In starting her new life as a domestic violence survivor, she turned to printmaking to process her experiences at the intersection of being an immigrant, a Korean, a woman of color, and a mother.

Her work illuminates the experience of isolation and pain of immigrants in this country, as well as conveying messages of race, migration, the myth of the American Dream, and the following disappointment and betrayal. She wishes to shine light on the effect of U.S. neo-imperialism in South Korea, the source of the Korean diaspora in the world.

June Exhibits at the Ivy Tech Waldron Arts Center

Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8 pm

On display May 26-July 28

M-F, 9-7.  Sat, 9-5.  Open later and on Sundays during theatre performances.