Exhibition Tour: Strange You Never Knew with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang and Curator Jennifer Friess
Join author Frances Kai-Hwa Wang and exhibition curator Jennifer Friess for a tour of Jarod Lew’s first solo museum exhibition, Strange You Never Knew. Jarod Lew explores the limits and potential of knowing—knowing who you are, knowing your family history, and knowing your place in a community.
Strange You Never Knew explores how photography can function as a repository of personal and communal histories. By weaving together connections between personal histories and broader social contexts, Lew draws connections between the past and present, examining how identity is shaped by both individual and collective memory, while challenging viewers to reflect on the ongoing impact of racial discrimination and cultural stereotyping.
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
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Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, scholar, and poet focused on issues of Asian America, race, justice, and the arts. Her writing has appeared at PBS NewsHour, NBCAsianAmerica, PRI GlobalNation, AngryAsianMan, more. She has written a book of prose poetry, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids.
SUPPORT
Lead support for Strange You Never Knew is provided by Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, the UMMA Director’s Acquisition Committee, and the U-M Office of the Provost, Institute for the Humanities, and Ross School of Business. Additional generous support is provided by U-M History of Art, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, American Culture, and the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program.
