Tshab Her

Tshab Her

(she/her)

Tshab Her is a textile artist currently residing in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Hmong refugees who fled the “secret war” in Laos and was raised in the suburbs of Chicago. Within the context of immigration, displacement, war, statelessness, and colonial religion, Her’s work grapples with the tension of belonging as a second-generation Hmong American woman searching for personal agency, cultural autonomy, and communal sensibility. She uses paaj ntaub, a traditional Hmong textile art, in particular the creation of story cloths, as a tool for storytelling and explorations of her identity and culture as a modern Hmong woman in America. She aims to echo the ways her ancestors preserved their history of resilience by sewing their stories and hopes into cloth, by sewing her own experiences of perseverance as she navigates statelessness on American soil. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago and, as an extension of her art practice, creates earrings with secondhand materials under It’s Pronounced Cha. 

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