Ngoc-Tran Vu is a Dorchester based multimedia artist.
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She left Vietnam with her family when she was very young.
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Tran and Willie her cat inside their community shed which she plans to paint so black Dorchester community members can display their art.
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One of Tran's murals is the "Community in Action: A Mural for the Vietnamese People" located in Dorchester, which she helped paint along with two other artists.
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Tran painted a utility box named "Water as Source," which comes from a Vietnamese proverb.
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"I think Dorchester is misrepresented in the media because it's mainly a working class people of color neighborhood." ~Ngoc-Vu Tran
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Another mural showing the Vietnamese-American experience in Dorchester.
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Tran enjoys using her art as activism and has future projects in store for us.
