Events for December 29, 2025

Rice. This humble, white grain is an essential component to most Asian cuisines. It also holds a plethora of meanings and symbolisms in various Asian cultures. For artist, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, this ubiquitous food staple has become an obsession. In her latest body of work, Nguyen utilizes rice as a metaphor for herself as she grapples with the reality that her culture and wisdom are being lost from generation to generation. Like grains for rice running through her hands, Nguyen felt her culture was lost from her mouth to her daughter’s ears. Throughout this exhibition, Nguyen is reconciling her feelings of loss,

From the luscious panoramic landscapes of the Hudson River School to Maynard Dixon’s seemingly endless cloud filled skies set behind painted mesas to Grant Wood’s overly saturated and stylized pastoral scenes of the Midwest, American painters have long shaped a romantic vision of the land. These images helped construct a narrative of the United States as expansive, untouched, and waiting to be explored. This myth has further been perpetuated by tourism imagery, National Park postcards, and idealized and sometimes altered travel photography. Yet the land has always borne evidence of habitation, use, and intervention. This tension between the idealized landscape and