photo by Bianca Bakonyi/torpedo factory art center (alexandria, va)
Post-Graduate Residency
Torpedo Factory Art CenterAlexandria, VA
During this residency, I referenced the map created by Dr. Krystyn R. Moon and her students at the University of Mary Washington using census records and city directories of Chinese hand laundries in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia between 1900-1949.
I walked to each pin marked on the map, photographing the approximate sites, (there were about 38 unique addresses listed in the data.)
This ongoing body of research was funded in part by the Wherewithal Research Grant managed by the Washington Project for the Arts, funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
More details on my residency available here.
Source material for Dr. Moon’s research can found here.