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Nhat and her husband, Andre enjoy traveling. Nhat uses the trips to visit art museums or other artists. One such trip was to meet Clifton Monteith. Clifton creates woodcraft with urushi lacquering. He studied the urushi technique for many years in Japan (even though he does not speak Japanese.) Nhat sent a letter of introduction to Clifton, along with photographs of her urushi work. Nhat and Andre were honored to receive an invitation to spend a weekend at Clifton's renovated farmhouse and studio in upper Michigan. A friendship developed, and they were pleased to find someone else who could discuss the art of urushi with passion.

Nhat and Clifton photographed in the mountains of Kyoto, Japan

Nhat has the distinction of being commissioned to create a large urushi lacquer mural to be displayed at the new Indianapolis Airport. The mural will be composed of 29 panels of urushi art and will be completed in the fall of 2008. Each side of the 29 pieces must be primed with 10 coats of lacquer before the urushi painting may begin. Nhat is developing a chart to keep track of the 580 steps in the priming process.

Recognition by the City of Indianapolis for Commission of Urushi Mural for the Airport

Nhat has used the art of urushi on her sculptures. Each surface of the sculpture must have the same attention to detail as in her flat works of art. Nhat has been featured in articles in American Craft Magazine and Art News Magazine. She was also one of the artists chosen to be in Whispers to Shouts-Indiana Women Who Create Art, an exhibit at the Indiana State Museum during the spring of 2005. In 2006, one of Nhat's sculptures was displayed in Cincinnati at a special invitational coordinated with an International Sculpture Conference, and others were exhibited at in Austin, Texas.

Examples of Nhat's sculptural work

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