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What Can the Arts Do for Immigrants? NYCโ€™s Cultural Leaders Convene an Event to Hear Your Thoughts

by Zachary Small August 28, 2018August 29, 2018

70 of New York City arts organizations have called upon the Cityโ€™s government to convene a symposium on how to better serve the cityโ€™s immigrant community now under siege by ICE and the Trump administration.

Posted inComics

A 13-Year-Old Cartoonistโ€™s Response to Trumpโ€™s Family Separation Policy

by Sasha Matthews June 22, 2018June 22, 2018

Following the news, the outspoken cartoonist and activist Sasha Matthews shared her comic with Hyperallergic.

Posted inIn Brief

Melania Trump Walks into Hot Water at the Border with โ€œI Really Donโ€™t Care, Do U?โ€ Jacket

by Hrag Vartanian June 21, 2018June 22, 2018

Whatโ€™s intentional and whatโ€™s unconscious in the Trump administration? No one knows.

The billboard after Indecline's intervention (photo courtesy Indecline)
Posted inNews

Bay Area Protests Trumpโ€™s Child Detention Policy with Billboard and Projection

by Benjamin Sutton June 21, 2018June 21, 2018

A clandestine modification of a junk removal billboard and a nighttime projection of a political cartoon called out the presidentโ€™s family separation policy.

Posted inOpinion

The Little President with a Big Mural in a Childrenโ€™s Detention Camp

by Hrag Vartanian June 14, 2018June 14, 2018

President Trumpโ€™s new detention center for immigrant children in Texas houses 1,700 boys in a former Walmart and includes a mural featuring his image.

Posted inNews

Activists Project Messages of Resistance and Solidarity on Border Wall Prototypes

by Claire Voon December 1, 2017December 1, 2017

โ€œWeโ€™re really here to point that out that this is not an appropriate use of American technology,โ€ said a member of Artcolectivist, a binational group involved in the light graffiti-project.

Posted inArt

An Artistsโ€™ Conversation on Immigration at the Museum of Latin American Art

by Matt Stromberg May 31, 2017

On June 2, the museum in Long Beach is hosting a conversation focused specifically on artistic responses to immigration from Mexico and Latin America.

Posted inArt

A Virtual Border Wall Displays Art by Immigrants

by Claire Voon March 27, 2017

Art director Maddy Kramerโ€™s site โ€œThe Most Beautiful Wallโ€ is a digital structure 19,000 miles long that is showing work made by immigrant artists.

Posted inNews

Trumpโ€™s Travel Ban Ensnares Artists and Authors

by Benjamin Sutton March 7, 2017March 8, 2017

In the weeks since President Trumpโ€™s initial travel ban was put into effect and blocked, artists and writers entering the US have faced strenuous scrutiny from Customs and Border Patrol.

Posted inNews

Street Artist Marks โ€œFuture Internment Campsโ€ Around the US

by Claire Voon March 7, 2017

Over the weekend, Plastic Jesus affixed 50 signs to construction sites throughout the country that read, โ€œLot reserved for: Future Internment Camp.โ€

Posted inArt

A Magazine Named for a Visa Gathers the Work of Foreign Artists in the US

by Claire Voon March 1, 2017

Artist Jenny Hungโ€™s O1 magazine makes visible the labyrinthine and costly process of applying for an O-1 visa.

Posted inNews

In Protest of Trumpโ€™s Travel Ban, Davis Museum Will Remove All Art Made or Donated by Immigrants

by Allison Meier February 15, 2017April 25, 2017

From tomorrow until Presidentsโ€™ Day, the Davis Museum at Wellesley is deinstalling or shrouding all of its art by immigrants as a statement against Trumpโ€™s travel ban.

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