Step into Multimedia Gallery 5 at the Crow Museum of Asian Art's location on the UT Dallas campus and you will find yourself in a fantastical world of hybridity and empathy created by American artist Saya Woolfalk. Saya Woolfalk: Floating World of the Cloud Quilt , a multimedia installation, is on view through Sept. 7.

Born in 1979 to a Japanese mother and a mixed-race African American and Caucasian father, Woolfalk considers herself “binational.”

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“Japanese was her first language. She remains fluent. Although her family moved to Scarsdale, New York when she was two, she spent every summer in Japan with her maternal family. Growing up, she reflects she always felt more Japanese than American,” said Natalia Di Pietrantonio, curator at the

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