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Collective Members: Sylvia La Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen Anne Ngan Nguyen Danny Thanh Nguyen Ly Nguyen Thien Nguyen Tony Van Nguyen Carolyn Thuy Linh Tran Ky-Phong Tran Sylvia La is learning to move more and more to the rhythm of her heart, which has been leading her on an unpredictable path as a visual artist. Through her media of oil paint, canvas, paper, found objects, and other materials available in the world, she hopes to continue creating some art, playing, observing, growing, and being alive. Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen is currently an MFA student in Creative Writing at Mills College where she has been awarded the Mary Merrit Henry Prize in Poetry and the Ardella Mills Literary Composition Prize in Creative Non-Fiction. Her poetry has been published in the "Asian Pacific American Journal" and "The Walrus". Anh-Hoa is also a book artist, printmaker, photographer and performer. Anh-Hoa's artists books and photography have recently been displayed at the Asian Resource Gallery in Oakland in a show called "Piecing Together:Emerging Vietnamese Women Artists." She lives and creates in Oakland, California. Imported from Vietnam a decade after birth, Anne Ngan Nguyen still feels bonded to her motherland. Anne has studied Physiology and Art before finding her voice with Graphic Design. True to her Piscean nature, Anne loves creating, painting, screen printing, and sculpture, but it is photography that she finds complimentary to graphic design. Anne is interested in creating narratives with written text and personal photography, while exploring how the personal is also universal. Her work has been displayed at Locus Arts, Asian Resource Gallery and SomArts Cultural Center. In the years to come, you will find her making short films and getting lost in the mists of Ha Long Bay. Danny Thanh Nguyen is a humorist, fiction writer, and one-third of the literary-trash phenomenon 'D.J. Berkeley'. He works as a senior editor for the non-profit HIFY where he teaches writing and 'zine-making workshops for young people. He has co-edited HIFY's "Walk Like a Warrior: A Young Man's Survival Guide". His work has appeared in Transfer, The Yellow Journal, among other publications. Danny lives in San Francisco, and thinks the Vietnamese need more than just three surnames. Ly Nguyen was raised in San Francisco's Richmond District. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz, she returned to SF to establish Oasis for Girls, a young women's art and education center. Ly's creative interests include photography and writing. Her photo work was exhibited at Apature 2002. Her short stories were published in the San Francisco Chronicle and Chocolate for Women's Soul Anthology. Ly was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook and the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation.On occassion, Ly teaches creative writing at the Art Studio at UC Berkeley. She is the current Executive Director of Kearny Street Workshop www.kearnystreet.org. . Thien Nguyen was born in qui nhon, viet nam and misses his motherland, although there is no where else he'd rather be right now than oakland. his weapons of mass creation are the camera and pen. bob marley and the Buddha are his co-pilots. he loves dogs, taco trucks and baby pictures of his girlfriend, and believes in art and love for social change. see some of his photos at www.artbasis.com. Tony Van Nguyen is a viet american cat who loves to build with his peoples through creative cultural vehicles. currently brewing in his mind right nows is a group performance art piece around WHO WE ARE that will feature him and his sisters and brothers in the collective - so be on the lookouts!!! when tony isn't chillin with the artists collective or sleeping, you can find him either building with his vietunity folks (another tiiiight bay area viet crew!) or tryin to make the dolla dolla bill y'all at the asian & pacific american community program of the afsc. oh, and lastly (cuz it shouldz be last), tony is a proud wack emcee who spends too much time busting wack beatboxes EVERYWHERE. Carolyn Thuy Linh Tran is a young, angry woman trying to make a difference. She is currently a student at SF State, where she hopes to finish her degrees in Asian American Studies and Human Sexuality before the Governor "terminates" the CSU system. When she's not volunteering at community functions, you can find her providing non-judgmental information about sex and human sexuality to the country with San Francisco Sex Information. She loves her API sisters and brothers, being around them warms her soul. Ky-Phong Tran translates as �strange wind.� Fitting that an exiled child of the Vietnamese Diaspora be named after the wind, one of the original earth elements that fears no borders. A writer from many places (Saigon, Alabama, North Long Beach), he calls Oakland home for now. He is a member of the Vietnamese Artists Collective and is working on 562, a short story collection, and napalm's children, a novel. When he is not writing, he coaches basketball and teaches creative writing at Melrose Leadership Academy in East Oakland. He has been published in Good News and Word is Bond and read/spoken at UCLA, Laney College, Galeria de la Raza, One Mic in Little Saigon, and at Kearny Street Workshop's APAture 2004.

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