Pieces of home

Visual narrative tells the story of people displaced

Tram Colwin with her item of significance, an IOM tag that she wore when leaving Vietnam and a photo her family taken three months prior to their departure. In it, young Tram is wearing a dress her mother had tailor made for the journey.
(Photo courtesy of Stephen Ironside/Iron Lotus Creative)
Tram Colwin with her item of significance, an IOM tag that she wore when leaving Vietnam and a photo her family taken three months prior to their departure. In it, young Tram is wearing a dress her mother had tailor made for the journey. (Photo courtesy of Stephen Ironside/Iron Lotus Creative)

As Tram Colwin and her family prepared to leave Vietnam and come to America, the most important question in her young life was, "What all can I bring?"

That's the hook of her latest exhibit, "What We Carry," which refers to not only the objects packed up by various refugees and...

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