Lao Voices

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Chantala Kommanivanh is a painter and musician of Lao descent. He was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and now builds a new existence in in the US. He expresses his views of being a refugee in America through  his artwork using mixed media and photo references. In his painting “Refugee Daddy” Chantalism, e.g., [...]