Vanny Channal of Steel N Pacific

      My name is Vanny Channal and for the first 33 years of my life, I allowed myself to be a victim of circumstances. Because I was poor, because I was raised on welfare, because my parents were Cambodian Refugees, these are the reasons the world had me believing that my existence didn't matter. But because I was poor, because I was raised on welfare, because my parents were Cambodian Refugees, these are also the things that have given me the ability to do what I am doing. 

     As an artist, my medium is scrap metal sculpting. Scrap metal because the story of each of these individual pieces is also my story. My story of overcoming circumstances, my story of redemption, my story of taking something that outlived its purpose and giving it a new chance at life. And the most recent chapter to my story is being written in a metal fabrication shop in Denver, Colorado. So please follow me as we both anticipate how the story unfolds.