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Chinese Painter and Printer Wang Gongyi

Wang Gongyi was born with China’s communist revolution, which put her on a collision course with the political turbulence of the times. But her devotion to art paid off; In the mid-1980s, she was recognized as one of China’s top artists and spent several years in France studying and expanding her artistic range. Wang has made her home in Oregon for more than a decade, where she teaches art privately and “plays” at painting and printmaking.

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Iraqi Painter Farooq Hassan

Painter Farooq Hassan was a national treasure in his homeland of Iraq. He fled the war in 2010, leaving behind a lifetime of artwork and his fame. Find out how he is rebuilding his standing as an artist in his new country, the United States.

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Mariachi Singer Edna Vazquez

Edna Vazquez was born in Mexico, and sent to the US by her parents when she was a teenager. Since she arrived in Oregon, she’s become a musician who writes her own songs, and also performs in a traditional mariachi band. She didn’t choose to come to Oregon, but now she can’t imagine living anywhere else.

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