National Dialogues on Immigration

Museum of International Folk Art


December 17, 2013  |  Uncategorized

Using folk art as a starting point for dialogue, MOIFA’s Imagining Home dialogue program provides visitors and targeted community groups the opportunity to engage with each other around the twin humanities concepts of “home” and “belonging” through the words and works of folk artists from around the world on all sides of the migration continuum: those who have left their homes to begin anew in a new land, those who are left behind, and those who receive the newcomers in their midst.

Through traditional and relatable forms of storytelling (including both visual and performing folk arts) participants will address issues that can be difficult to directly confront, either because of stigma, taboo, language barriers, stereotypes, or conflict. The Imagining Home program provides participants with opportunities to engage directly with works of master-level traditional artists who have dared to speak out through their arts, to share their own stories and personal experiences evoked by the art, to enrich their understanding of different points of view surrounding questions of home and belonging for immigrants, and to identify how they can respond to needs they see in their communities.

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