![]() ![]() “We were waiting for our green card which would allow my mother and father to work. “That book is based on my family’s arrival to San Francisco in 1967 on my father’s student visa he wasn’t allowed to work as a student but he had to work to keep the family going,” Yang says. Yang discusses another painting she’d done featuring San Francisco’s Chinatown from “Hannah is My Name,” a picture book she authored and illustrated. I came home after the Tiananmen Massacre.” Here, I got into the illustration circuit. ![]() And then I went to Beijing where I stayed for three years and studied art for about two years. ![]() I also attended Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design and that’s where I found my voice. I went to art school after I graduated from U.C. “When I learn about my parents’ past and listen to their old stories, I learn to understand how my parents’ stories unfolded and made me who I am today,” Yang says. ![]() Both Yang and her father’s paintings, along with other images, are now on display at Santa Clara University’s de Saisset Museum in the exhibit Crossing Cultures: Belle Yang, A Story of Immigration, open through Dec. The graves have been dug up and the bones tossed out. Later, communists overtaking China seized the hill and built upon it. Yang explains that the people in her painting are heading up the hill to a family burial ground in Manchuria where eight generations of her father’s ancestors were buried. “Up on Granddaddy Hill,” one of Belle Yang’s many engaging and culturally-rich paintings, was inspired by her father’s painting of Granddaddy Hill. ![]()
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