Mee Cha

Mee Cha is an emerging Laos Hmong Batik maker and dancer. She has been teaching Batik at Moon Love Batik in Luang Prabang, Laos. Mee is White Hmong and learnt embroidery from her mother. She started learning to make batik from a batik master, Zu Xiong, who is now in her seventies. Mee makes traditional designs, but also her own style and for commission. She was recently commissioned by Linda McIntosh to make a work about the bombings occurring in Lao FDR during the Indochina war and their destruction for an exhibition in New York.