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The Walker Art Center is preparing her first U.S. retrospective for 2023.
The story of the thousands of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York during the late 19th and early 20th centuries is well-known to many, and on a visit to it, you can learn about the Jews who left eastern Europe to escape oppression, the Italians who came to the United States seeking upward mobility, the Armenians who arrived amid a genocide at home, the Syrians who crossed the Atlantic to find new lives abroad, and many more stories like this. What you cannot learn about, the artist Pacita Abad realized when she came to Ellis Island as a tourist in 1991, is the stories of the Asian, African, and Latin American immigrants who came to the U.S. Surprised by this lacuna in the history of immigration to the U.S., she knew she had to make art about it.
The collaborators behind the murals at Puentes de Salud had one goal: to tell the community’s stories.
Stories cover the walls of Puentes de Salud.
The deep blues of the skies contrast with the clay reds of the ground. Men and women grow and harvest corn. Rolling pins flatten tortilla dough as a roaring fire next door cooks them to perfection. An older woman dons a traditional Salvadoran white and royal blue dress, adorned with intricate embroidery. Cochineal insects get crushed into a brilliant red dye for clothing. A kiln blazes pottery pieces.
A man rolls up his petate, straps it onto his back, and begins his immigration journey.
These scenes are just snippets of the vivid, immersive murals covering the walls of the health clinic for Latino immigrants based in South Philly. Funded in part by the William Penn Foundation and KABOOM, as part of a project on literacy called the Informal Learning Initiative, the collaborators behind the murals had one goal: to tell the community’s stories.
“[Immigrants] are able to share their stories. We’re there to hear them,” said Lemus, who asked to be referred to by his last name, a first-generation Mexican American and the arts and education coordinator at Puentes. “And when you tell a story, you’re valued. So this is a project that provided that sense of value.”
With “Drummer Boy,” muralist Cameron Teleau wanted to embody a sense of passionate Black leadership while also promoting Wingz & Tingz restaurant, specifically the location on Blue Hill Avenue.PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF.
A Rebel Mural is the first public mural project from the grassroots nonprofit Rebel Cause.
Sourcing stainless steel from her neighborhood in Flushing, the artist has created an immersive installation comprising architectural features that subtly evoke class, race, and cultural traditions.
Anne Wu, who received her MFA from Yale University in 2020, is an emerging sculptor and installation artist whose work reflects the material culture and collective experience of Chinese immigrant communities. Wu’s sculptural installation A Patterned Universe (2021) features architectural materials such as polished stainless-steel rods, red string, insulation foam, and PVC roof panels sourced from her immigrant neighborhood of Flushing, Queens. With the help of a fabricator known as Mr. An from New Tengfei Stainless Steel, Wu created an installation that evokes liminal spaces by affixing unfinished staircases, doorways, and windows to the walls and floor of a gallery. Below, Wu discusses how she came to see found materials from her neighborhood as conveyors of Chinese cultural heritage and current socioeconomic conditions. “Open Call: Anne Wu” is on view at the Shed in New York through August 1.
Hopkins artist Fawzia Khan has unveiled her latest works as part of the “Becoming Visible” exhibit through Saturday, June 19, at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
Through the exhibit, Khan would like viewers to reflect on the contributions of women in our society while also raising issues that are personal to her as an immigrant.
“Men may have physical advantages over women, in general, but women are equal in other ways and superior in some,” she said. “I want people to think about the way society is set up, how it works and why? Can we change it? What will it take so everyone can live their fullest lives.”
Khan, a Pakistani-American born in Nigeria, emigrated to the U.S. when she was 12 years old.
A former obstetrician-gynecologist, Khan went back to college in 1999 to earn a bachelor of fine arts degree, with an emphasis on sculpture.
Khan’s inspiration for what has flourished into the “ Becoming Visible” exhibit began with a 2020 Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Life as an undocumented queer immigrant is difficult, but Julio Salgado has found that the arts practices he honed in school has helped him combat depression, negativity and stress. He eventually went on to use that creativity to uplift the voices of millions of people just like him.
Artist Julio Salgado couldn't believe the news when it happened. It was May of 2010 and five persons dressed in graduation gowns walked into the office of the late Senator John McCain, sat on the floor and refused to move. Tania Unzueta, Lizbeth Mateo, Yahaira Carrillo, Mohammad Abdollahi and Raúl Alcaraz locked arms and called on McCain to support the DREAM Act, legislation that would have provided a generation of undocumented persons between the ages of 12 and 35 with conditional resident status and a path to permanent residency.
"They totally changed the game when they were doing that sit-in in McCain's office because, up to that point, people were speaking on our behalf and they were f*cking getting arrested," says Julio Salgado. "I thought it was so bad*ss that they did that."
Their action launched a new wave of protests and activism in support of the DREAM Act that also inspired Salgado to be bolder with his art. It began simply as his way of recognizing the important work that many organizers and activists were doing on the ground to raise the voices of millions of people like him. Today, it has grown as a means to support and uplift people who identify as both undocumented and queer, just as he does.
"The five people who you saw sitting down [in McCain's office]," he says, "Four of them identify as queer."
Salgado began drawing as a kid in his native Ensenada, Baja California. He can't remember a time when he wasn't drawing, and his art skills won him a cake in a drawing contest hosted by a local radio station held during el Día del Niño holiday.
Borders are complicated, and a new exhibit at the Museum of Wisconsin Art is exploring the idea of borders through art created by immigrants who now call Wisconsin home.
Nina Ghanbarzadeh is an immigrant from Iran and an artist featured in the "Artists Without Borders: Reflections on Art and Place" exhibit. She says over the past few years, she has felt unwelcome inside the United States despite building a family and career in the country.
“I would think, 'What am I doing here?' And then, you know, I would think that this is my country now because I’m working hard,” Ghanbarzadeh says. “For me as an artist, [the exhibit] a really good way to introduce my background and culture to other people who live here and show them what my culture is about.”
J. Tyler Friedman is the director of collections, education and research at the museum. He says the museum is constantly asking the question, “Who is a Wisconsin artist?”
Themes of belonging and identity, he says, are present in the work of the nine artists included in the exhibition. “The way in which place influences the art that comes from that place and the way in which the art that comes from a particular place reinforces people’s sense of belonging,” Friedman explains.
The exhibit features artists from Iran, Mexico, China, the United Kingdom, South Korea, India, Syria and Ethiopia. Ghanbarzadeh says part of the project is to break down the idea that borders should be used to separate people and instead, help bring them together.
