Join us for a casual conversation over boba with Livien Yin. Working in painting and sculpture, Liven Yin has a research-driven approach to creating imaginative reconstructions of contemporary subjects alongside historical Asian Americans and their environments. Livien Yin: Thirsty is on view at the Cantor Arts Center through February 2, 2025 and is the first museum solo exhibition of the work of Brooklyn-based artist Livien Yin, a 2019 Stanford MFA. In their paintings, Yin often casts their friends as models, collapsing the distance between the past and present to create new connective threads between Asian Americans across generations. The artist draws from historic photographs of Chinese immigrants and stages imagined vignettes in the absence of visual records, using the gaps in these archival sources as fertile ground to envision possible realities.

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All students are welcome to join for free boba and conversation! Art and Boba Talks are informal chats meant to be a welcoming space for students to engage with practicing arts professionals to learn more about working in the arts, what an art practice looks like, and/or to ask any questions you might have in your journey as an aspiring arts professional! We also welcome any folks who simply love art and want to join for a casual conversation over boba, no arts background required :)

This event is open to Stanford students only. Boba is limited to the first 20 RSVPs.

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For questions, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu or Vivian Sming, vsming@stanford.edu, (650) 725-7789.