Read Brave 2022
What does community care look like to you?
Local artist and What We Hunger For contributor Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn has curated "Recipes for Care" interactive exhibitions at Rondo and Sun Ray libraries.
Visit the exhibitions and leave a recipe for food, self-care, and/or for community care. You can also submit your recipe to our virtual gallery.
Artist Bios
Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn, MFA is a refugee, poet, community artist, curator and educator. She is the founder of Pomelo Press and creates self-published and hand bound artists books. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the de Young Museum and was a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant recipient. In 2018, Ánh-Hoa was the artist-in-residence for The Floating Library with her project Waves Enfolding: A Paper Memorial that honored lives lost during the Vietnamese refugee waves of 1954 and after the war in Vietnam and South East Asia, 1975-1992. She has been a teaching artist for Walker Art Center, Mia (Minneapolis Institute of Art), and Hennepin County Libraries. Ánh-Hoa is currently a member of She Who Has No Master(s), a collective of women and gender-nonconforming writers of the Vietnamese diaspora. Her most recent publication is a food essay titled Buy 10 Get 1 Free! Open Letter to Bánh Mì Wanna Be’s in “What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family” edited by Sun Yung Shin 
Bethany C. Rahn is an artist, designer, and educator from Madison, Wisconsin. Her interdisciplinary studio practice integrates letterpress, printmaking, fibers, photography, digital fabrication, and sculptural techniques to explore concepts of gender and identity.About the Exhibit
Recipes for Care is an interactive community art installation by local artist and writer Ánh-Hoa Thị Nguyễn, whose essay is part of Read Brave’s nonfiction title, What We Hunger For. Recipes for Care, invites community members to to share recipes that ignite, shape, and support a community of care in their lives.
There are many ways we care for each other and for our community. Please share a recipe for how you care for others—like a favorite baked good or potluck dish, and more abstract recipes, like an ingredient list for comfort that might include a warm blanket, a good book, and a close friend.
This interactive art installation of recipes from the community were displayed at Sun Ray and Rondo libraries, as well as in an online gallery at readbrave.org. Designed in collaboration with artist Bethany Rahn, Recipes for Care welcomes folks to participate in-person at Sun Ray or Rondo libraries and virtually.
Sharing our stories and learning from our neighbors, together we author this collection of recipes for Community Care.
