Writer turns folklore into comics for Syria’s refugee youth
Of all the images emerging from Syria’s civil war, it was the children that unsettled writer A. David Lewis the …
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Community art project tells Pittsburgh residents: ‘You Belong’
Last April, amid a string of rejections and the isolation of solo work in a studio, artist Bob Ziller reached …
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Curiosity and presence: A conversation with filmmaker Jennifer Crandall
The line comes after 1,326 others, in the penultimate verse of of Walt Whitman’s 52-verse poem “Song of Myself.” It …
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Cloudscape Comics depicts refugee stories in Vancouver
The story unspooled over the course of a haircut. Oliver McTavish-Wisden sat down in the barber’s chair and listened as …
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ivoh fellow Anna Claire Vollers shares how immigration changed Sand Mountain
It’s a chilly April afternoon and the stadium stands are mostly full. David Uptain sits about halfway up the bleachers, …
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Newest Americans: Documenting America’s increasingly diverse future from Newark, New Jersey
It’s the intimate moments in the short film “Fighting Chance,” about the Ironbound Boxing Academy in Newark, New Jersey, that …
2016 ivoh fellow Heidi Shin explores the reality of being an asylum seeker in the U.S.
Estela works the night shift at a fish processing factory in Boston. She sorts freshly caught white fish, picking out the occasional parasite or worm. Once …
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ivoh fellow Heidi Shin on why a young Liberian refugee, educated in America, chooses to move back ‘home’
Mercy Krua and her son Jefferson are having a disagreement. It’s about whether he should move back home. We’re sitting …
In Jerusalem, parkour is freedom
In the shadows of a city with a tense and violent history of thousands of years, some young residents have …
The Mash-Up Americans explores intersection of race, culture & identity from the frontline of multicultural America
Amy S. Choi and Rebecca Lehrer wanted to create an online space for people who live between multiple cultures, feel …