a conversation featuring

Pao Houa Her and Mohamud Mumin

in conjunction with Pao’s photography exhibit

THE FRUITS OF MY MOTHER’S LABOR

Saturday, March 2, 2019, 1PM

These photographs on folded newsprint, taken in and around Pao’s parents’ East Side home, examine the fruits of the dreams and desires they communicated to their children.

As a baby in the mid-1980s, Pao Houa Her journeyed to St. Paul from the northern jungles of Laos. From East Side schools, she attended Inver Hills Community College, earned a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University. She became a visual artist employing multiple genres of photography, has received a Jerome Foundation Fellowship and grant support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and has exhibited her work at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts.

Mohamud Mumin is a photographer, visual artist and curator at Soomaal House of Art – a Minneapolis-based Somali artists collective, which has just opened its own gallery. Mohamud has had an impact as a photographer and installation-builder, and as a curator and mentor. He has been the American Swedish Institute’s Malmberg fellow, and a recipient of numerous fellowships, including a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photographers.

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