Wing Young Huie, Documentary photographer,
will be speaking in conjunction with his exhibition “9 Months in America” at the Tweed Mu seum. Wing Young Huie is well known for his projects exploring the people and places of Minneapolis neighborhoods, like Frogtown, which was published as a book by the Minnesota Historical Society. “9 Months in America”, first shown at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, explores Asian-Americans with a wider lens. Together with his wife, Tara Huie, Wing traveled across the country for nine months, photographing people and places and videotaping interviews to reveal how Chinese-American culture has been interwoven into mainstream America. Growing up in Duluth, Wing Young Huie’s father owned and operated Joe Huie’s Café, a popular restaurant where, as an artist puts it “a community was created.” A special section of the Tweed version of “9 Months in America” will present, for the first time ever, these earliest of Wing Young Huie’s documentary photographs.