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In response to the result of the 2016 US presidential election, Chung created the painting “Everything” to comment on the inseparability of racial inequity and
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University of Alaska paintings students created a stained-glass inspired mural in downtown Anchorage in partnership with the Anchorage Museum.
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holding a fake severed head of Donald Trump has been linked to Chung’s painting in conversations about free speech.
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