Artist and documentary filmmaker Wing Young Huie will visit Carthage on Tuesday, Nov. 15, to talk about his work and screen his film, Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour.

Wing Young Huie documents the socioeconomic, ethnic, and cultural realities of his home state, Minnesota. His photographs have been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art, and he is a recipient of the Bush Artist and McKnight fellowships. He is the author of Frogtown: Photographs and Conversations in an Urban Neighborhood and Lake Street USA.

At 4 p.m. he will speak in the Niemann Media Theatre about his documentary photography projects that create visual dialogue confronting issues of race and class in urban neighborhoods. A discussion will follow the presentation.

At 5 p.m., he will present his film, Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour. From one of the United States' most diverse areas (Hilo, Hawaii) to its least (Slope, North Dakota), Huie and his wife Tara spent nine months traveling through 39 states on an "ethnocentric" tour of their homeland. Some of the sights include a Vietnamese Elvis, a meditating Falun Gong protester in front of the Washington Monument, and a self-described redneck Chinese restaurant owner near the Okefenokee Swamp. The result is an idiosyncratic and personal odyssey through an America where Asians, particularly Chinese, happen to be in the majority.

This event is co-sponsored by the Art Department, the Communication and Digital Media Department, the H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art, and the Division of Fine Arts.