70 of New York City arts organizations have called upon the City’s government to convene a symposium on how to better serve the city’s immigrant community now under siege by ICE and the Trump administration.
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Posted inComics
A 13-Year-Old Cartoonist’s Response to Trump’s Family Separation Policy
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 “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?” Jacket
What’s intentional and what’s unconscious in the Trump administration? No one knows.
Posted inNews
Bay Area Protests Trump’s Child Detention Policy with Billboard and Projection
A clandestine modification of a junk removal billboard and a nighttime projection of a political cartoon called out the president’s family separation policy.
Posted inOpinion
The Little President with a Big Mural in a Children’s Detention Camp
President Trump’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
“We’re really here to point that out that this is not an appropriate use of American technology,” said a member of Artcolectivist, a binational group involved in the light graffiti-project.
Posted inArt
An Artists’ Conversation on Immigration at the Museum of Latin American Art
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
Art director Maddy Kramer’s site “The Most Beautiful Wall” is a digital structure 19,000 miles long that is showing work made by immigrant artists.
Posted inNews
Trump’s Travel Ban Ensnares Artists and Authors
In the weeks since President Trump’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 inArt
A Magazine Named for a Visa Gathers the Work of Foreign Artists in the US
Artist Jenny Hung’s O1 magazine makes visible the labyrinthine and costly process of applying for an O-1 visa.
Posted inNews
In Protest of Trump’s Travel Ban, Davis Museum Will Remove All Art Made or Donated by Immigrants
From tomorrow until Presidents’ Day, the Davis Museum at Wellesley is deinstalling or shrouding all of its art by immigrants as a statement against Trump’s travel ban.
Posted inArt
Remembering Little Syria, a Forgotten Manhattan Neighborhood
From the 1880s to 1940s, a community of mostly Arab Americans thrived in a Lower Manhattan neighborhood that would later be the site of the World Trade Center.
