Tram Colwin with her item of significance, an IOM tag that she wore when leaving Vietnam and a photo her family taken three months prior to their departure. In it, young Tram is wearing a dress her mother had tailor made for the journey.
(Photo courtesy of Stephen Ironside/Iron Lotus Creative)
As Tram Colwin and her family prepared to leave Vietnam and come to America, the most important question in her young life was, "What all can I bring?"
That's the hook of her latest exhibit, "What We Carry," which refers to not only the objects packed up by various refugees and...