Art Projects:
art activities, openings, and events
Workshops/Webinars:
year-round arts professional development sessions and speaking engagements
Opportunities:
creative and cultural resources to note and share, both locally in Boston and nationally
Financial Strategies for Creatives
FINANCIAL STRATEGIES FOR CREATIVES hosted by Ngoc-Tran Vu
Many of us feel embarrassed to talk about financial vulnerability but we shouldn’t be! This interactive session will guide individual artists in thinking about practical financial solutions (emergency funds, safety net programs, debt management, taxes, negotiating with lenders) and offer resources to help freelance artists.
Goals:
-Learn financial strategies and resources to support your practice
-Cultivate sustainability and maintain forward momentum in your projects
1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Healing Memorial - Community Convening Meeting #1
The “1975: A Vietnamese Diaspora Healing Memorial”
is an ambitious project set to become a public art installation in the Boston Little Saigon Cultural District in 2025 with a long-term vision for a permanent memorial. Envisioned as a testament to healing, this installation seeks to provide a space where memories, narratives, and lived experiences from the Vietnamese diaspora are both honored and shared.
This survey is designed to gather invaluable insights to guide our team in shaping the project.
Your involvement is crucial as we prepare for the inaugural Community Convening on
December 16, 2023, from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
at VietAID, 42 Charles Street, Dorchester, MA 02122
“1975: Công Trình Tưởng Niệm Cho Người Việt Hải Ngoại”
là một dự án tác phẩm nghệ thuật tại Khu Văn Hóa Boston Little Saigon. Được hình dung như một minh chứng cho sự chữa lành, tác phẩm này mong muốn mang đến một không gian nơi những kỷ niệm và câu chuyện trải nghiệm từ cộng đồng người Việt hải ngoại đều được tôn vinh và chia sẻ. Khảo sát này được thiết kế để thu thập những góp ý giá trị của cộng đồng để giúp chúng tôi định hình dự án. Sự tham gia của quý vị và các bạn rất quan trọng khi chúng tôi chuẩn bị cho buổi
Tụ Họp cộng đồng vào ngày 16 tháng 12 năm 2023, từ 12:00 PM đến 2:00 PM chiều
tại VietAID: 42 Charles Street, Dorchester, MA 02122
Faith and Hope Peace Poles Installation
Artist Ngoc-Tran Vu working on the Faith Peace Pole at the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute.
JAZZ IN THE PEACE GARDEN (Second Session)
Second offering of art making activity from previous week led by Artist Ngoc-Tran Vu. Please join us!
JAZZ IN THE PEACE GARDEN (First Session)
Dear Neighbors,
After your weekend, would you like to start the week with live music and a free artist workshop outdoors?
If so, join us in the Peace Garden at First Church next Tuesday, 5/30 and 6/6 from 4:30 pm - 6 pm to enjoy live music and an art activity!
~ FREE ~
Artist Tran Vu will provide an interactive art workshop - a great family activity!
The art activity will be painting miniature plant pots!
"Did You Eat Yet?" Art Making
Works of youth and their families on display after at the Boston Children’s Museum.
Join us as we welcome our guest artist Ngoc-Tran Vu at the Museum!
Tran is a local community-based artist and a longtime friend of the Museum. Tran is currently working on a new public mural art project, in collaboration with the Food Pantry at Harbor Health and the City of Boston, and will soon to be installed and unveiled in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Her new mural art is titled “Did you eat yet?”, which will invite people to have dialogs and reflections on food cultures and memories associated with food. While we learn about her new public art, Tran will invite us to participate in a fun art-making activity.
This program is part of the Boston Children’s Museum & Harvard Asia Center Partnership to celebrate Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month.
STONEBREAKERS: A PROGRAM OF ROXFILM 2023
Shared Stories is a collaboration of BAAFF, RoxFilm and CineFest Latino Boston.
“Stonebreakers” chronicles the conflicts around monuments that arose in the United States during the George Floyd protests and the 2020 presidential election. As statues of Columbus, Confederates and Founding Fathers fall from their pedestals, the nation’s triumphalist myths are called into question. By exploring the shifting landscapes of American monumentality, the film interrogates the link between history and political action in a nation that must confront its past now more urgently than ever.
POST FILM Q&A:
Join us for a post-film conversation with on the challenges of monuments are our local response:
Tran Vu, Artist & Cultural Organizer
Karin Goodfellow, Director of Public Art, Mayor's Office, Boston
Elizabeth Triblanc, Direct of Programs, Embrace Boston
Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, Boston
Isaak J. Liptzin, Producer/Cinematographer, Stonebreakers
Curtis C. John, Producer, Stonebreakers
How to be a Sustainable Artist in 2023
NAACBoston presents
How to be a Sustainable Artist in 2023
Welcome all members to engaged to join us on February 16th for a interactive workshop covering tangible strategies and tactics for plugging in as a Boston artist no matter your discipline. Come join this session for creatives and culture bearers on managing, promoting, and safeguarding our practices. Let’s share and exchange best practices on resources to maintain forward momentum for ourselves and as a collective…
Protecting Our Practice and Creative Self with Ngoc-Tran Vu
MASS MoCA is offering free professional development workshops online and in-person for artists and creatives. Upcoming courses include: Protecting Our Practice and Creative Self with Ngoc-Tran Vu (2/1), Financial Well-being Through Interdependence with Amy Smith + Jumatatu M. Poe (2/9 & 2/16), An Introduction to Cooperatives in the Arts with Daniel Park (3/28), and more!