At the PRC, we’re proud to present My Grandmother is an Altar, featuring work by artists Tarik Bartel, Kannetha Brown, and Anhkim Dang, and curated by PRC Program Manager Catherine LeComte Lecce.
My Grandmother is an Altar is a visual prayer stitched from the threads of memory, matriarchal wisdom, and diasporic longing. Through photography, film, and altar work, Southeast Asian-American artists Tarik Bartel, Kannetha Brown, and Anhkim Dang offer reverence, devotion, and witnessing of their Thai, Cambodian, and Vietnamese grandmothers—women who carried the weight of war, displacement, and survival with fortitude. Transforming grief into sanctuary, and memory into monument, the artists honor lullabies sung across oceans, the warmth of kitchens built from exile, and elders, named and unnamed, whose love and labor became the architecture of future generations. These stories do not fade—they burn, they bloom, they build anew and remind us to resist the ongoing devastation of empire and colonialism.
On View: May 30th – July 5th, 2025
Opening Reception: May 31st, 5 – 7 PM (VanDernoot Gallery at Lesley University Hall)
Film Screening: May 31st, 4:30 – 5PM (Lesley University Hall Screening Room)
This exhibition is fully sponsored by Digital Silver Imaging
https://prints.digitalsilverimaging.com/
This exhibition will be accompanied by an artist panel, date TBD
