Ponnapa Prakkamakul is a visual artist and a landscape architect based in Massachusetts. As a third generation Chinese born in Thailand, relocating to Hong Kong then the United States, her work explores the relationship between human and their environment focusing on cultural displacement and isolation issues among immigrants. Her public artwork aims to support the community in expressing their voices and to create artwork that truly represents their identity, cultivating a stronger sense of place. Ponnapa holds a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design where she received Lowthorpe Fellowship Award upon graduation. Her work has also been exhibited, published, and collected throughout the US and in Asia. Ponnapa currently is a member at Kingston Gallery and a registered landscape architect at Sasaki.
As a Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence at Urbano Project, Ponnapa will lead “Message from a Sidewalk,” a Youth Artist Project exploring the idea of democracy through the participatory design of a hopscotch game.
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