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...Luong Du fled Saigon, Vietnam, when he was 17, stopping in a Malaysian refugee camp before making it to Edmonton, Alberta in 1979. It was in Canada that Lu met his wife, Phuong. Like Lu, Phuong was ethnically Chinese but an immigrant from Saigon. In fact, both had initially wished to wind up in Australia—for the weather, of course—and had picked Canada, with its relatively lenient policy for sponsoring families, as their second choice. The pair was married in 1984, the middle of a decade that belonged to the local Edmonton Oilers. The franchise...
...Du Bois Institute’s de facto gallery room is a small, oddly shaped space near the main reception area on floor 3R, plastered wall-to-wall with black-and-white photographs taken by Indian photographer Sunil Gupta during the “Looking for Langston” film shoot...
...There’s not a conventional narrative,” says Sheldon L. Cheek, curator of the exhibit and of the Du Bois Institute’s permanent collection. Instead, British filmmaker Isaac Julien strings together ten scenes to paint a portrait of a lesser-known side of the Harlem Renaissance...
...hallways that snake between the offices of the Du Bois Institute faculty lies the permanent art collection—a motley assortment of paintings, posters, and sculptures—that memorialize many moments in the history of Africans, African-Americans, and the institute itself...
This quality is present in varying degrees throughout the art in the Du Bois Institute’s collection. Finding the Institute may be difficult, but the hunt bears rewards beyond its pains...