Gold bangles from Pakistan: Fawzia Khan

Fawzia Khan shares the story behind 4 gold bangles inherited from her Pakistani grandmother. They became her connection to her extended family and to Pakistan as she was born in Nigeria and spent very little time in Pakistan.

Fawzia Khan is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Hopkins, Minnesota. Born in Lagos, Nigeria to Pakistani parents, she emigrated to the U.S. at the age of twelve. A former obstetrician-gynecologist, she left medicine to raise a family. Khan went back to school in 1999 and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA, with an emphasis in sculpture, in 2005.