#hmong artists

[mankadavi]

Travellers Families and Cast

[crystal-clear-crystalline]

[ ID: A flat color drawing featuring a person with long black hair and light tan skin wearing a traditional Hmong green outfit calling out to the viewer with a cheerful expression while hiding a bouquet of flowers behind their back. They're drawn on a blue background with flower petals falling down. / End ID. ]

Funnily enough I originally drew this last year(?) for Hmong New Years only to not finish it and just post it now lol It's still cute but I do not have the energy to finish it, even looking back rip. Hmong textiles are just crazy to even try and draw especially with recent styles in the states. One day I'll make brushes to make the process easier

[arinewman7]

A Young Hmong Girl

Mai Trung Thu

oil on canvas, ca. 1930s

[baydrof]

When I’m with you, I feel different

Than I usually feel

There’s only you and nothing else is missing

That’s how I know it’s real

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I need your love. Verse 2. An acoustic original.

[xaofue]

うっせぇうっせぇうっせぇわ！

[OC] Cheng Usseewa redraw

[itseghost]

I have this at home outfit,, with this cozy jacket that’s way too big for me and these really big wool house boots. I feel like a cartoon character with this outfit assembled

[kajira-kreations]

Exactly what it said on the video.

Also, please gimme a follow on Tik Tok if you want (@ kajira_kreations)

[drawingsphopho]

Spiritual Download

Ji Zou, 2024

35.5” x 47.5”

acrylic, rhinestones, micah, and modge-podge on canvas

Source: https://publications.risdmuseum.org/grad-show-2024-illustration/ji-zou

[fumiiko]

♡ representing my culture through my art ♡

[valerian-e-song]

OC-Tober Day 2: Newest OC + Oldest OC

i'm trying to shake the rust off of drawing this month so i can't do things EVERY day BUT! i love @brie-draws's OC-tober and I knew I definitely had to do today's prompt!

[lilalychi]

Lili in a hmong princess style dress that I was passed down from a relative! Lili likes dresses more than I do 😅

[vangeliccreations]

Are you as obsessed with Uncanny Counter as I am? Been here since season 1 and can’t believe the last episode for season 2 will air tomorrow. It’s been a long and amazing ride with the K-drama.

[toipandan]

Humanized Objects Design #2

Artistic's Note

Nickel is Hmong Blasian if you are wondering btw and did you know Almaty is literally apple city in Kazakh, where apples originally hailed from? Same goes to marshmallow flowers from Egypt? Yes, Paper's skin tone is literally a paper white. The only valid paper white are paper-based objects and I color picked from Wanderer's skin tone in Genshin Impact /lighthearted joke

All of my humanized designs and HCs are personal! Everyone is allowed to have different interpretations. You are allowed to use my designs as long you credit me. /lh /gen

[baydrof]

My Late Night Sessions!! [ukulele magic]

I wrote this song with the premise of: brah, sometimes things just don’t align.

This is the first half of the song.

[californiastatelibrary]

On display on the third floor of the Library and Courts building, a tapestry depicting the history of the Hmong people as they fled from China in ca. 1200 up to their arrival in the 1980s at Los Angeles International Airport. The artist of this 1980 tapestry is unknown.

[teaspoon-of-salt]

Xiong was born in 1973 in Phab Kheb, Laos, one of 11 children in a family that fled the country in 1975 and spent four years in a refugee camp in Thailand before emigrating to the United States, according to Sahan Journal. He grew up in St. Paul and was valedictorian of his class at Humboldt High School in 1992.

Xiong graduated with a political science degree from Carleton College in Northfield in 1996 and began traveling around the country as a motivational speaker, storyteller and rap artist, billing himself as the country's first Hmong comedian.

Xiong helped organize the first Hmong Minnesota Day at the Minnesota State Fair in 2015, and was named a Bush Fellow in 2019 to earn a master's degree in public affairs.

With Xiong's death, the Hmong American community in the Twin Cities has lost a true leader, "consummate organizer and cultural interpreter," said longtime friend Pakou Hang. In his presentations and writings, she said, Xiong was a teacher who tried to show people how to be kind, generous and do the right thing.

Xiong connected people across generational, cultural and political lines who traveled the United States to speak at schools, colleges and businesses, Hang said. As a friend, he could inspire laughter in every conversation, she said.

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A highly regarded Hmong American activist, speaker and comedian from the Twin Cities was found dead Monday in Medellín, Colombia, after kidnappers demanded $2,000 in ransom from his family.

Tou Ger Xiong, 50, was killed while on a vacation to Medellín. His brother, Eh Xiong, confirmed his death Tuesday morning on Facebook.

"The pain of his loss is indescribable. We extend our deepest gratitude to all who have offered their condolences, thoughts, and prayers," Xiong's family wrote in the Facebook statement.

Xiong, who lived in Woodbury, was kidnapped Sunday after a date with a woman he met on social media, according to the Colombian newspaper El Colombiano.

A group of men contacted his family demanding $2,000 — the equivalent of $8 million in Colombian pesos — and killed him a day later without collecting the money.

Three American tourists, including Xiong, have been murdered in the last month, El Colombiano reported.

Kidnappings in Colombia are on the rise, according to authorities. In the first few months of 2022, 35 people were abducted in the country, and that figure is more than double this year for the same period.

Early last month, the father of a Colombian soccer star was freed after he was held for around a week by a guerrilla group.

[The excerpt above came from here.]

Former state Sen. Mee Moua of St. Paul, for whom Xiong worked as a volunteer coordinator in her successful 2002 campaign, said in a statement that she was "weighed down with grief for my friend," and called Xiong "a one-of-a-kind modern-day hero."

U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-St. Paul wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Xiong's death was "devastating news" and that his work as a comedian and activist "touched many lives in the Twin Cities and beyond."

Hang said Xiong would perform skits based on his own stories growing up as a refugee and other lessons from the larger Hmong community. She recalled him bringing older Hmong women onto the stage to demonstrate how they would pick corn or fetch water as children, setting it to music and transforming it into a dance.

Xiong sought to connect first-generation Hmong American kids with classmates of other races, and strengthened intergenerational relationships with their families by making them proud to be Hmong, she said.

Xiong and Hang worked together on many community causes, including the formation of the Coalition for Community Relations, a group that traveled to rural Wisconsin from the Twin Cities in 2004 to "bear witness" at the trial of Chai Soua Vang, a Hmong American man eventually convicted for killing six hunters.

"We're not here to defend Chai," Xiong told the Star Tribune at the time. "We're coming together to accentuate the positives in the Hmong community."

Xiong also brought media attention to a hunger strike in Northern California in 2021 after a Hmong cannabis farmer was killed by police, Hang said. He flew to California to lead a march and gather stories. Discriminatory ordinances passed by Siskiyou County were later ruled unlawful.

"We don't have anyone else in the community like that," Hang said.