Art, Music, and Dance
![Drawing of Banglang's family](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image/public/unsorted/images/banlang_phommasouvanh.png?h=dfb311cf&itok=qw-o2zXc)
Banlang was born in Laos in 1946. She studied in France on a scholarship. After the outbreak of war in Laos, she and her family fled the country and came to the United States. Banlang has a BA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and an MAE from Ball State University. She was a Minneapolis public school teacher.
![Justin as a young boy with his grandma in a park](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image/public/unsorted/images/justin_schell.png?h=699370b8&itok=SfESEiuI)
Justin recalls his Italian great-grandmother and begins tracing pieces of her rich life, including a song she recorded in 1940 for her husband while he was fighting in World War II.
![Magnolia dancing](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image/public/unsorted/images/magnolia_yang_sao_yia.png?h=54e0ee04&itok=5HGj3K4F)
"What is Hmong Dance?" is Magnolia's digital story of poetry, dance, and identity. Born in France in 1988, she moved to the United States at age 8 and is an artist, dancer, and choreographer.
![Kwame with his family](/sites/cla.umn.edu/files/styles/teaser_image/public/unsorted/images/screen_shot_2021-06-08_at_4.34.43_pm.png?h=82eb48d5&itok=1FHmMp0q)
Kwame began playing music when he was a child in Ghana and came to the United States in 1990 to play in C.K. Mann’s North American tour. He has recorded three albums: “Ancestors” (1997), “Ananse Stories” (2010), and “True Experience” (2015).