Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton
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“Secret War on Laos” series
Acrylic on board, 2018
Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton is a professor of painting at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, where she has won a MTSU’s Teacher of the Year Award, a Tennessee Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for 2D, and Best in Painting Award in ArtFields's 2019 Art Competition for Southern Artists. Her current and upcoming exhibitions include: Minnesota Museum of American Art, MN; Hunter Museum of American Art, TN; Lauren Rogers Museum, MS; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Reece Museum, TN; and Flying Solo Arts in the Airport BNA Exhibit, Nashville, TN. Her permanent collections include: Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; American Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname; Legacies of War Office, Washington, DC; Tennessee State Museum; Pinnacle Bank, Memphis and Nashville, TN; Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA. Her publications include: Wall Street International, Click Bait Political Art Book, Create Magazine, Voices of America, Studio Visit magazine, College of Liberal Arts magazine, the Tennessean, and The Pinch journal. • Photo by Krysada Binly Phounsiri