Digital Exhibit

@artbypepperplease. These pieces came to me as I reflected on my family’s journey to get here and my relationship to home and tradition. I included movement in my pieces as a nod to migration and collage as a reference to mixed identity. I played with the duality of the familiar and the foreign to represent…

@Cattco “Ni de aquí, ni de allá is the best way to describe home for me. Home is where you cultivate love, support, and strength. My home does not belong to one place but every person I’ve met and loved” I discovered these letters after my father passed which was over a decade at this…

@mevaleoso_craft ___ I was born in Chicago, my family immigrated here from Mexico before I was born, my mother brought my older sister with her at the age of two years old. My father had arrived here with his brothers before bringing back my mother and sister. Like most immigrants my parents left Mexico because…

@hrayrattarian “I hope that…one day there will be no borders between countries. That we can celebrate differences yet unite based on our similarities.” These are street photographs I took both at a May 1st rally and in my neighborhood. Since May 1st started in Chicago, I joined the rally on May 1, 2020, which had…

@calayahcore Digital Performance, 2024 The Queen Mother of the West, a paramount goddess in Chinese mythology. She is a fossil, a plural. The power relations and social structures of different periods have squeezed and stretched, and gradually shaped her cultural sedimentary layers: the hermaphroditic Great Mother, who weaves heaven and earth; a piece of nowhere,…

@sedphoto As a nomadic, multidisciplinary artist, Sarah Elizabeth Dutton is deeply inspired by the interpretation process, particularly in how it informs interdependence and relational health overall as well as continuously redefines and reorients the histories and futures, traditions, and foundations of a person, place, thing, or idea. Her practice is continuously rooting through themes around…

facebook link Suspended State2024, 1.10 min, Video Beneath my steps, the earth remains concealed, My existence wrapped in a foul ordeal. Yet, I’m no pessimist, heed my call, This life’s tapestry, I won’t let it enthrall. In a state suspended, my constant theme, Upside-down, in an awkward dream. I somersault through the freeing air, Only…

@brekkie.rice I made these two paintings almost a year a part and looking back this coincides with annual visits to family for the holidays. Dusk in the Desert is a familiar scene of an expansive desert dotted with ancient, looming saguaro. The backdrop of my childhood and a view I miss dearly. I often made…

@katallages “You and I aren’t so different. Rather than viewing changes and differences as a threat, an open mind will get us farther in life. Whether it’s a butterfly or your neighbor, we all look beautiful together.” My submission consists of photos taken in Angangueo, showcasing the monarch butterfly’s migration. I found these photos to…

@lacroixlines El Poeta is a queer Latine poet and public health worker on the Southwest side of Chicago.____ Nubes Poetry and digital art piece.This piece describes a phone conversation I had with my Peruvian mother. Having grown up as a “no sabo” kid, I fought hard to learn Spanish in adulthood and insisted on speaking…

@ramintakloo What Immigrants Bring is a project that explores immigration from the perspective of nostalgia, and how everyday objects, by virtue of their history, transcend their utilitarian relevance. See series: @whatwebring I want the viewers to think about what it might be like to be uprooted and replanted, and then I want to think back…

@tonimaugeriartwork Toni Maugeri is a visionary teller of tales crafted by interpreting people, society and culture in the urban environment. My interactive assemblage, mixed media and ritual oracle externalizes what I see in my mind’s eye and feel in my bones I am extraordinarily lucky to have lived far longer than my ancestors. I am…

@pretty_fucked_art “Beings Over Borders” The photograph was taken in May 2022 and is of a newly emerged Monarch I grew in my own 4x6ft garden. The monarch butterfly is a small creature who makes an annual journey of 3,000 miles across the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The Monarch subject of the…

@Akira_Lightthatheals. Akira is an Undocumented artist indigenous to Turtle Island. Using photography to write stories about futures for the purpose of creating new myths ___ In 1994 the trade agreements between Mexico and the U.S forced Mexico’s economy to be exploited into the global free market that destroyed a lot of local economies in Mexico….

@alelemus.g “I know I can be here now, and it’s all thanks to her. I know that people don’t migrate for pleasure; they migrate out of necessity and sacrifice so much, mostly for the well-being and future of their loved ones.” Mi madre, Morelia.Acrylic on canvas and PLA. 17 cm X 13 cm canvas. The…

@lydiajart I create art as an exploration of the human condition. Through my personal experiences and the experiences of others, I explore themes of identity, otherness, alienation, faith, healing, and movement through both physical and emotional spaces. I believe that visual art touches the deepest part of us and is a conduit for our most…

@Rage_method_chi “I’ve seen neighbors stop talking. Coworkers stop being friendly. Where ego and nationalism has become personality.” It is a reimagining of the piece Amor A Todas Horas, by Simon Silva, but showing a mother’s fear, and sense of imprisonment in our great city. I can not imagine what someone in her position would feel,…

@mary.antart “The process of immigration was a constant conversation throughout my life.” Aerial watercolor on paper, 4″ x 6″An abstract of an aerial perspective. I used to wave to planes with my dad as a kid, just in case my cousins from Lebanon were actually visiting! I always looked up, and though I was waving,…

@Roelephantom ROOM (Butterfly Effect), Digital animation This work features ROOM, a recurring character within my larger practice, reimagined with butterfly wings in place of ears. The wings reference migration, transformation, and sensitivity—qualities often embedded within immigrant experiences and diasporic identity. As a Puerto Rican artist living between Puerto Rico and Chicago, movement has become both…

@1111ff.__ Movement. About moving around your grief. About moving forward despite many things. About moving wherever you want to go, no matter how convoluted and dangerous the path is. About moving towards the better future. About being free and letting go of your past. I’m not an US Citizen, I even haven’t step my foot…

facebook link I love to deconstruct the views of our everyday world as this is the way my eyes interpret life. I allow color, texture, value and contrast to interweave harmoniously to establish a feeling and stimulate your senses. Highly textured pieces fill a void in many of us, so I give sensory stimulation a…