“Back then, as [they] trudged along the long, dusty expeditions and marches, [they] had imagined the springs of [their] birthplace, and in [their] mind, they no longer resembled mere brooks and streams but vast rivers surging with memories and hopes.”

–Dương Thu Hương, No Man's Land

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VERONICA Y PHAM works primarily in papermaking and fiber arts in her studio practice. Her work focuses on traditional craft specific to Vietnamese and Chinese histories to connect ideas of process, knowledge through generational labor, and questions of identity.The materials in her work often become environmental investigations containing a visual and kinetic language, repeated based on interlacements, linear elements and ecological spatial relationships. Pham continues to work with traditional and contemporary papermakers in Vietnam with a focus on collaborative projects and research. Her favorite materials to work with are milkweed and hemp.

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VERONICA PHAM is an artist, educator, and designer. She received her MFA in Textile, Design Studies, and Material Culture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received her BFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a recent grant recipient of the St. Botolph Club Amelia Peabody award in sculpture. She has a published article titled Moments of Chây: Ecological Knowledge of Traditional Papermaking in Việt Nam, in the Winter 2023 issue of Ecology and Paper in the Hand Papermaking magazine. She is also co-writer in Contributions of Ethnobiology a collaborative interdisciplinary manuscript, Hand Papermaking Traditions in Việt Nam. Other recent exhibitions include Paper is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures group exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book which looks at paper within a global and decolonial framework, Trúc Chỉ Gallery in Huế, Merwin and Wakeley Gallery, Center for Research, Lydon House Art Center, Center for Visual Research Gallery at Cedar Crest College, and The Morgan Conservatory. Pham has also taught papermaking and fiber arts workshops at Penland School of Craft , Ox-Bow Paper Book Intensive, Minnesota Center for the Book, Chazen Arts Museum, Fresh Press Paper, and the Center for Southeast Asia in Wisconsin.