{"id":539,"date":"2025-11-05T14:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/la2026\/?page_id=539"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:57:44","slug":"story-quilt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/la2026\/story-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"On view in &#8220;Life, Liberty, Los Angeles&#8221; at The Autry Museum of the American West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--full-width-image-and-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--full-width-image-and-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/la2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/485\/2025\/11\/91_42_1-See-Lee-quilt-768x432.jpeg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/la2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/485\/2025\/11\/91_42_1-See-Lee-quilt-1280x720.jpeg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/la2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/485\/2025\/11\/91_42_1-See-Lee-quilt-768x432.jpeg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Hmong Story Cloth by See Lee.\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Hmong Story Cloth\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See Lee\u2019s art tells the story of war, flight, and arrival in Long Beach, where she and her family settled in 1979. Lee\u2019s family was forced to flee Laos for supporting the U.S. in the Vietnam War. The story cloth records her flight to refugee camps in Thailand, arriving at a U.S. airport, and children going to school and becoming successful. In the 1970s and 1980s, millions of newcomers to Los Angeles, many fleeing wars and persecution, built lives and families alongside long-standing communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n      <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>See Lee, Hmong story\u00a0 cloth, c1980. 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