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Supported by the Seattle Colleges Performing Arts Fund, the Artist as Storyteller speakers series welcomes BIPOC artists, performers, and activists to share their work and connect with students about what it means to be an artist in today’s social and cultural climate. The series emphasizes the art-making and storytelling process as it relates to the individual and community.

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SPRING 2021

Binh Danh





Binh Danh reconfigures traditional photographic techniques and processes in unconventional ways to delve into the connection between history, identity, and place. As a child who immigrated to the US from war-torn Vietnam in 1979, the memories and trauma of his diasporic experience serve as the foundation for his investigative practice. In his highly acclaimed series of chlorophyll prints, Danh uses photosynthesis to print portraits from the Vietnam War era directly onto the surfaces of leaves. Danh is also noted for his contemporary daguerreotypes of national parks. Their reflective surfaces enable people of all backgrounds to see themselves as a part of the beauty of the American landscape.


He earned a BFA from San José State University and an MFA from Stanford University. His awards include a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, and recently, a 2019 Creative Work Fund, collaborating with the Visual and Performing Art Department at the California State University, Monterey Bay. His work has been collected by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and San Jose Museum of Art, among others. He is an assistant professor of art at San José State University.





Binh Danh - Recent Works


Student Bio


Chau Luong has been a student at South Seattle College for three years. She is working to finish her final quarter at SSC and will transfer to the University of Washington, Tacoma, to pursue a bachelor's degree in Accounting this fall. She loves Vietnamese opera, Vietnamese country music and all different kinds of music from around the world. She trained as an opera singer in Vietnam before moving to the U.S. Since moving to the U.S. Chau has performed in the Seattle and Portland areas. She is now living on Vashon Island and plans to pursue a career in Accounting or open a Vietnamese restaurant on the island.



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