Tricia Heuring | Not About You Season 3 : Episode 2

“My Thai-ness or sense of Thai identity is not up for anyone else
to quantify based on how white I seem.”


Tricia Heuring talks about being "racially ambiguous" and
"automatically American." She shares her culture shock from
arriving in the US at 18 having learned about her own American
culture largely through television and American cultural items
she had access to growing up in Egypt, Thailand, and Saudi
Arabia. And Tricia shares how her lived experiences have given
her a unique perspective as a curator and community
organizer. 


Tricia Heuring is a curator, arts organizer, and educator
living in Minneapolis. A mixed-race, multi-cultural American, she
was born in Thailand and spent formidable years in Hawaii, Saudi
Arabia, and Egypt. While setting down roots in the Twin Cities
over the past 15 + years, she’s instigated various platforms for
cultural production and creative communities. Since finding her
forte in visual art, she has become an advocate for curatorial
practices that re-frame the role of the gatekeeper to instead,
facilitate equity and inclusivity in the art world.


She practices this philosophy at Public Functionary, a
Northeast Minneapolis based alternative art space she co-founded
in 2012. Public Functionary has been called “a fantastic gift to
a great art city” by New York Magazine’s senior art critic, Jerry
Saltz and “a beacon of hope for the local indie art scene” by the
Star Tribune. Heuring holds a B.A from Macalester College and an
M.A. from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. She currently
teaches arts leaders as an adjunct in the arts management
graduate program at St. Mary’s. Heuring serves on board of the
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and was recognized with a “40
under 40” award from the Twin Cities Business Journal.