Faraway Home:  Tibetans in Minnesota

This exhibit highlights Tibetan history, Tibetan resettlement in Minnesota and the refugee experience, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan art, and the Tibetan community in Minnesota today.  Photographs by both local Tibetan photographer Tenzin Phuntsok Waleag and nationally acclaimed photographer Keri Pickett are featured in the exhibit.

Faraway Home was developed in partnership with local members of the Tibetan community and the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota (TAFM).

Thupten Dadak, founder of the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota (TAFM) was appointed coordinator of the Tibetan Resettlement Project in Minneapolis-St. Paul in 1990 by the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In this role, Thupten, TAFM Board Members, and many recruited Minnesotan volunteers helped establish the 160 original Tibetan immigrants in the Twin Cities, resulting in the growth of the second largest Tibetan community in the U.S.

Nancy Dadak, co-curator with Alyssa Thiede of Faraway Home: Tibetans in Minnesota, has worked as a photographer, art director and content developer, and has lived as a member of the Tibetan community since 1995. Nancy has served as Administrator for Gyuto Wheel of Dharma Mon