By: ARTogether Staff Writer On a vibrant Friday evening, I found myself amongst a warm, intimate crowd at the ARTogether Center, gathered to celebrate Pride Month and the powerful voices of queer artists of color who are also part of the immigrant community. The night was alive with joy, resilience, and the spirit of Pride as we listened to three phenomenal artists: Chetna Mehta, Mihee Kim, and Houyee Chow. All three panelist artists, along with
Photos by Claire Burke By Emma Grover On June 17, 2023, at Clinton Park in Downtown Oakland, hundreds of community members including local non-profit organizations, City and County’s officials, families, artists, and more, gathered to celebrate World Refugee Day and the resilience and diversity of the East Bay’s refugee and immigrant communities at this year’s World Refugee and Immigrant Day Festival. A day of connection and celebration, ARTogether, in partnership with the East Bay Refugee
Bringing Together Afghan Community Through Textile Art By Emma Glover The Tekah Tekah project (in Dari this translates to “Piece by Piece”) is a community textile art project designed to tell the stories of newly-arrived Afghan refugees based in the Bay Area. The program itself was first conceived in July of 2022. ARTogether spent the following five months designing the program, creating outreach materials, applying to grants, and meeting with community members before the first
