Photo Credit Sarah Dawson McClean Written by Michelle Lin, Artist Growth Program Director When we opened the ARTogether Center just over a year ago, we knew this would be an exciting chance to set down roots, to nurture even deeper collaborations with immigrant and refugee communities. This was our first physical space where we could host our own art exhibitions. How would we approach this work uniquely with ARTogether’s mission in mind, to build compassionate
Written by Nick Konozik, Arts in Schools Program Directer High school is hard enough. For refugee students coming to America, their journey is an exponential climb; most struggle silently with cultural, linguistic, and social barriers. often with unresolved trauma and loss of family. And how does the US system welcome them? With a high school education system focused solely on academic proficiency. These already vulnerable students can so easily fall between the cracks, and yet,
All photo credits: Sarah Dawson McClean This September, Flying Carpet Festival commenced its 5th year for a two-week mobile arts festival that brought music and circus performances to children across Turkey’s southern border towns. Founded by Sahba Aminikia a musician and composer from Iran/United States, FCF is a volunteer-based collective of world-class musicians, circus artists, visual artists, designers, and visionaries who believe in the power of music and arts as a catalyst for positive change
By Michelle Lin On an August Friday evening, a collective of emerging Immigrant, Refugee, and diasporic artists of color gathered for the first time at the ARTogether Center to kick off a 3-day weekend intensive centered on healing and deepening our artistic practices. All of us—the participating artists and the workshop facilitators, working artists of color ourselves—opened the space by inviting in our ancestors and guiding lights. We each shared a meaningful object representative of