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Migrating Architectures (2019)
January 26, 2022“Migrating Architectures” art and research project analyses the process of space formation as a transformation of spatial conceptions from both the countries of origin and… Read more
13 Artists On: Immigration
January 26, 2022Art doesn’t just reflect the world — it engages with it. Some 10 million to 15 million undocumented immigrants currently live in the United States,… Read more
Lawrence Jacobs – The Migration Series (2015-2022)
January 26, 2022Explore the lasting cultural, political, and societal impact of the Great Migration through the life and work of artist Jacob Lawrence. Browse all 60 panels… Read more
Maggi Hambling (2016)
January 26, 2022Entitled 2016, the year it was made, this painting depicts a golden boat sinking below the surface of the ocean. The composition’s central subject is… Read more
A WALK THROUGH TATE MODERN ON THE THEME OF MIGRATION (2021)
January 26, 2022At a time when the borders between lands are continually being disputed, what does it mean to move across countries, to change nationalities and to… Read more
Crossings: community and refuge | British Museum (2021-2023)
January 25, 2022Engaging audiences in questions of identity, belonging and sharing our world, A British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: community and refuge will tour the Lampedusa cross… Read more
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art | Harvard Art Museums (2020)
January 25, 2022What does it mean to be displaced from culture and home? What are the historical contexts for understanding our contemporary moment? How does an artist’s… Read more
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art (2021)
January 25, 2022Migration—the movement of people and cultures—is a story of who we are and how we got here over time. Millions of people move for myriad… Read more
Worlds without Ends: Stories around Borders
February 5, 2021WWE opens a visual dialogue on the impact of borders on individuals and communities. The twelve participating artists are drawn from different regional traditions and… Read more
Near Strangers San Antonio 300
October 24, 2020An installation by Proyecto Diáspora. Considering San Antonio’s Tricentennial and Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival as SA’s cultural connector between artists, audiences and the world, Near Strangers San Antonio… Read more
Public Secret Society of Conceptual Migrants
October 24, 2020Public Secret Society of Conceptual Migrants is an intervention project created by artist Patty Ortiz as part of her continuing performance series Work Won’t Kill… Read more
From the Other Side
October 23, 2020A 3/9 – channel video installation by Argentinian artist Gabriela Golder. The video installation focuses on the topical issue of migration, zooming in on migrants’… Read more
Immigrant Art: A new perspective on the U.S. melting pot
August 26, 2020By Guillermina Zabala Guillermina Zabala is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose art examines the intersection between the individual and their social-political-cultural environment. Her works… Read more
The Power of Cartoons in Global Education: An Interview with Christian Clark
July 27, 2020Conducted by Sumita S. Chakravarty A former cartoonist and two-time Emmy-award winning writer for the Children’s Television Workshop flagship show, Sesame Street, Christian Clark works… Read more
Mapping Art in Times of Protest
July 24, 2020— by Pamela Vasquez Torres Pamela Vazquez Torres is a Mexican art historian living in the Twin Cities since 2017. She is driven by the… Read more
Notes about Home… in Minnesota
June 5, 2020by Pamela Vázquez Torres The dignity of a safe home shouldn’t be determined by color of skin or country of birth. The ongoing social movement… Read more
Artwork: Artist Cosimo Cavallaro Builds a Wall of Cotija Cheese at the Mexican Border (2020)
November 11, 2019From ARTNET.com: Artist Cosimo Cavallaro is helping President Donald Trump build his controversial border wall between the US and Mexico—but his barrier is constructed not from steel… Read more
Artwork: Rael San Fratello, Teeter-Totter Wall (2019)
November 11, 2019From ARTNET.com: “The art project, which has been a media sensation, is the work of architecture studio Rael San Fratello, a partnership between San Jose State interior design faculty member… Read more
Database/Community: Syria Cultural Index
November 11, 2019Berlin based non-profit CoCulture is working with the Syrian diaspora artistic community to build connections and cohesions to provide creative outlets and structure to a… Read more
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Exhibit on MAss Migration
November 11, 2019The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is featuring an exhibit on mass migration by Richard Mosse, a documentary photographer from Ireland. The exhibit runs… Read more
On Venezuelan Migration: Sebatián Llovera’s Non-Linear Trajectories
October 28, 2019by Elvira Blanco By mid-2019, the number of Venezuelans to migrate since the beginning of the Chavista regime in 1999 has reached four million. The… Read more
Art in the UAE: the exhibitions and installations to look out for in 2018
January 28, 2018This solo show by Venezuelan artist Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck takes up the question of refugees, arguing that human rights NGOs and charities have developed into a… Read more
For Migrants headed North, The things they carried to the end
January 28, 2018Strong political art is tough to make. So, when it turns up, it’s worth a look. In an era of “great, great walls” and “bad… Read more
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter
January 28, 2018Bringing together projects by architects, designers, and artists, working in a range of mediums and scales, that respond to the complex circumstances brought about by… Read more
Ankledeep by Lubaina Himid
January 28, 2018Ankledeep was completed in 1991 in Preston, where Himid lives and works. It is part of a series entitled Revenge: A Masque in Five Tableaux that the artist… Read more
Culture Strike: Art in Trump’s America
May 22, 2017“Migration is beautiful.” These three words give dual meaning to Oakland artist Favianna Rodriguez’s daffodil-colored print of a stained-glass-esque butterfly, the wings of which are… Read more
New artistic collaboration reflects history of migration
May 22, 2017Culture and community combined this past week for a unique artist-in-residence program that brought a renowned Mexican artist to downtown Phoenix. Betsabeé Romero, a contemporary… Read more
People on the move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
December 8, 2016More than 75 years ago, a young artist named Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) set to work on an ambitious 60-panel series portraying the Great Migration, the… Read more
Transborder Immigrant Tool: Transition
November 27, 2016Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab released the first iteration of the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), a mobile-phone technology that provides… Read more
Jesse Chun’s ‘On Paper’
October 17, 2016On Paper: Visual Artist Jesse Chun explores visual rhetoric involved in identity and mobility through an appropriation and transformation of the familiar marks contained in… Read more
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
August 30, 2016But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise gathers artwork from different contemporary artists such as Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Kader Attia who aim to explore issues of moving and… Read more
Comic: Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugees
August 2, 2016Author/illustrator Erik Thurman is an award-nominated creator who specializes in long-form comics journalism and nonfiction comics about current events. On August 1st, 2016, the political… Read more
Emigration Museum in Gdynia, Poland
July 14, 2016“The history of departures from the Polish lands is hundreds of years old. People traveled to different parts of the world for sustenance, in search… Read more
Francis Alÿs films children’s games in refugee camps in northern Iraq
April 7, 2016“The artist Francis Alÿs is exploring the idea of a film about children playing in the refugee camps he visited in northern Iraq at the… Read more
Marvel Comics’ secret weapon is a woman named Sana Amanat
February 28, 2016On the last day of New York Comic Con, Sana Amanat begins the annual Women of Marvel panel with what is now a yearly tradition.… Read more
Ai Weiwei Reveals Berlin Installation via Instagram
February 15, 2016From an article by Lauren Said-Moorhouse for CNN Style: “Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has covered a Berlin landmark with thousands of refugee life jackets for… Read more
Ingrid Butler’s ‘Migration’
December 16, 2015It was hard for Ingrid Butler not to feel helpless whenever she heard or read about the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Syria, trying… Read more
Banksy uses Steve Jobs to highlight Refugee Crisis
December 16, 2015“Banksy has revealed a new artwork, sprayed on a wall in the Calais refugee camp called “the Jungle,” intended to address negative attitudes towards the… Read more
Migrating Lives – Vidas Migratorias
October 18, 2015“Migrating Lives/Vidas Migratorias features handmade books filled with personal stories of migration, many of them by unaccompanied minors who have arrived in the United States… Read more
On Migration, Identity, and Borders
October 18, 2015Gerald Machona is a Zimbabwean born visual artist, whose work engages with issues of migration, deeply investigating the social terrains where identity, space, social hierarchies… Read more
State of Exception: An Art Exhibition
October 18, 2015Objects left behind by undocumented migrants on their journey into the United States, including backpacks, water bottles, and border restrains, form the basis of this… Read more
Lampedusa Review
October 18, 2015a brave excursion into the dark waters of mass migration Anders Lustgarten’s drama boldly contrasts the lives of a fisherman retrieving the bodies of refugees… Read more
No Human Being is Illegal
October 18, 2015“Give me your tired, your poor; Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . The enormous disparity between the eloquent promise of the… Read more
The Oakland Museum of California’s Who is Oakland? Exhibit
October 18, 2015“Oakland is a city in flux. As people from San Francisco and elsewhere migrate to Oakland in hordes, the physical and social architecture seems to… Read more
Platanos Y Collard Greens
October 18, 2015Written by David Lamb, directed by Summer Hill Seven and currently staged by Doni Comas, Platanos Y Collard Greens debuted to sold-out audiences on June… Read more
Left Coast: California Political Art
October 18, 2015Detail from “And The Earth Did Not Swallow Them,” mural (2015). CUNY Graduate Center: ‘The title is lifted from Tomas Rivera’s book entitled Ey No… Read more
Undocumented Apparel Series
October 18, 2015Julio Salgado’s ‘Undocu-Queers’ poster series provides the name, face, and story of a person at the intersection of two much-commoditized demographics, that of queer and… Read more
Barbed Wire Stories
October 18, 2015Inside Witness is a comic drawn and narrated by Stephen and Clio Reese Sady. The setting is a family detention center in Artesia, New Mexico, a… Read more