Bowers Museum
The Bowers Museum enriches lives through the world's finest arts and cultures. To achieve its mission, the Bowers offers exhibitions, lectures, art classes, travel programs, children's art education programs, and other special community programs. The Bowers is proud to be honored by the local community and recognized by world-renowned museums and industry professionals as a cultural center that exemplifies excellence in its field.www.bowers.org
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Sep 8, 2026
Kenneth NguyenHOST
welcome to the vietnamese podcast today i am at the bowers museum aka the bun bowers museum and i'm here with sean o'haro thank you for a podcast oh my
Sean O'HarrowGUEST
gosh thanks for inviting me yeah you know
Kenneth NguyenHOST
he may not look like it yeah but uh he is vietnamese oh yeah deep downside
Kenneth NguyenHOST
Your father is this Vietnamese professor, and he's a white guy from Chicago.
Kenneth NguyenHOST
Your mother's from Vietnam.
Kenneth NguyenHOST
You are the president and CEO of this institution, of the Bowers Museum in Orange County, which all of our events that Issa Leigh does with Vala and the Viet Film Fest and the Viet Book Fest.
Kenneth NguyenHOST
Yeah.
Kenneth NguyenHOST
You know, I've moderated panels here, and you are such an integral part of the Vietnamese culture.
Amanda OrosHOST
this fall season with a wonderful guest tara miller of quilt district if you know her on instagram um she's a quilt historian a pattern designer a teacher a speaker she mixes bold design with historical traditional imagery and style so she's got some really cool stuff out there she grounds her designs in history and purpose.
Amanda OrosHOST
And she was recently a guest curator for the exhibit called the American Quilt Cloth and Commerce at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California.
Amanda OrosHOST
And that just wrapped up at the end of August.
Amanda OrosHOST
So anyway, she is such a delight and I just love getting to talk to such cool people.
Amanda OrosHOST
Well, I'm so excited to have you here.
Amanda OrosHOST
You're a quilt historian, a pattern designer.
Amanda OrosHOST
You just recently had an exhibit at Bowers Museum, or you were a guest curator.
Amanda OrosHOST
So that's so exciting.
Derek PowellGUEST
It's about just execution at this point.
Derek PowellGUEST
And then, you know, looking at, you know, how do we bring this more to the general population, right, on the art side, right? And so this is like one of the things that we're working on right now in terms of being able to partner with like, for example, the Bowers Museum, right? How do we bring some of these programs and some of these different types of awareness campaigns to the general public? Not just for Amerasians, not for Vietnamese, but everyone.
Derek PowellGUEST
So everyone has an opportunity to learn more about what we're about and how we go move forward in terms of owning and telling our story going forward.
Derek PowellGUEST
That's really the crux of what this is about.