Moving Stories in the Making
Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives
Feb 3, 2024 -
March 30, 2024
The Luminary announces our forthcoming exhibition, Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives, organized by Moving Stories and co-presented with The Luminary.
Featured artists include Janna Añonuevo Langholz, Arleene Correa Valencia, Zlatko Ćosić, Mee Jey, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Kiki Salem, Rafael Soldi, and Laurencia Strauss.
The Luminary is pleased to present its spring exhibition, Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives, co-presented with the Moving Stories team at Washington University.
read essay by the luminary’s critic in residence, Pia singh, here.
How can narratives – visual, textual, and oral -- bridge divides between migrants and the communities in which they settle? Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives brings together the work of local and national artists who craft narratives of migration, and holds space for migrants and those affected by migration to tell their stories. The exhibition will demonstrate how stories can shift entrenched attitudes toward immigration and how art can foster connections between migrants and the communities in which they become a part.
An experiment in collaborative curating, the exhibition demonstrates how stories can shift entrenched attitudes toward immigration and how art can foster connections between migrants and the communities in which they become a part. Listening Sessions with local migrants, artists, scholars, and advocates from the Migrant and Immigrant Community Action (MICA) Project, the Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America (IFCLA), and Welcome Neighbor inform the exhibition and programming.
Moving Stories in the Making: An Exhibition of Migration Narratives reflects the work of an organizational partnership between Moving Stories and The Luminary. Moving Stories is a collective of Washington University researchers supported by a programmatic grant from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures. Moving Stories is a collective of Washington University researchers supported by a programmatic grant from the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures. Members of the curatorial collective within the Moving Stories team include Lisa Bulawsky, Tabea Linhard, Ariela Schacter, Ila Sheren, Karla Aguilar Velasquez, and Jay Buchanan. Moving Stories in the Making would not have been possible without the additional support of the Mark S. Weil and Joan M. Hall Fund for Art History and the Department of Art History and Archaeology at WashU.Moving Stories in the Making would not have been possible without the additional support of the Mark S. Weil and Joan M. Hall Fund for Art History and the Department of Art History and Archaeology at WashU.
Images by Virginia Harold, courtesy of Moving Stories + The Luminary
View the whole curatorial statement here.
Related Programs
Opening Reception
Saturday, February 3rd at 2pm- with a ritual led by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (2:30).
Mitos y Folclor (Myths and Folklore):
Saturday, March 2nd at 2pm.
Storytelling Workshop facilitated by local arts educators José Garza and Miriam Ruiz.
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Lecture
(Off-site: Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University)
Thursday, Feb. 1st at 5pm.
More information here.
Rafael Soldi Artist Talk
(Off-site: Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University)
Friday, March 22nd at 12:00pm. Organized in partnership with the Sam Fox School’s MFA program in Visual Art, the Program in Global Studies, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies