Youth, Culture, and Assimilation explores the delicate process of assimilation as young refugees balance honoring family and societal cultures and traditions from home countries with adapting to a new life in the United States. The process can be both exciting and challenging, as youth often adapt more quickly to new languages and cultural norms, which […]

Please join ART WORKS Projects for the opening of Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family by photographer Isadora Kosofsky, winner of the 2017 Emerging Lens Mentorship Program. Vinny and David began in 2012 when Kososky met Vinny, then age 13, as he was booked into a juvenile detention center for stabbing his […]

Please join ART WORKS Projects for The Confined Family: Exploring the Impact of Incarcerating Children, an evening of conversation with Restore Justice Illinois (RJI) and Communities and Relatives of Illinois Incarcerated Children (CRIIC). This program will address the realities of incarcerating children through the experiences of those both inside and outside of the criminal justice system with a […]

Join ART WORKS Projects and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a Family Day of celebrating collective action and art making. AWP will display images from Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family to complement Hull-House Museum's current exhibition States of Incarceration. Families can participate in kid-friendly activities including sewing, letter writing, dance, games, photography viewing, […]

Please join ART WORKS Projects and the Center for Refugee Solidarity for an outdoor screening of Sanctuary/Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys. The film will also be screened at the Södra Community Theatre in cooperation with The Tess Theatre. Sanctuary/Sustenance is a multimedia film that traces the journey of a family during the catastrophic events […]

Please join ART WORKS Projects (AWP) and First Defense Legal Aid (FDLA) at West Englewood Branch Library for a Know your Rights Workshop focused on juvenile justice. The FDLA Street Corp team will provide strategies for parents whose children are arrested or detained by police in Chicago and Cook County. AWP will show a mobile […]

Join ART WORKS Projects for the closing of Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family, a five-year photo essay by 2017 Emerging Lens winner Isadora Kosofsky. This essay documents one family's experiences with recurring periods of juvenile and adult incarceration. Beverages and food from Wow Bao provided. Presented by AWP's NextGen Committee.     For the […]

Please join ART WORKS Projects at the Journeys Festival International (JFI) for an installation of AWP's film Sanctuary/Sustenance. The film traces the journey of a family during the catastrophic events of displacement, on a path to sanctuary, and through the long process of rebuilding life in a new community. Sanctuary/Sustenance aims to raise the public consciousness of these […]

Please join ART WORKS Projects and Communities and Relatives of Illinois Incarcerated Children (CRIIC) for the second Chicago opening of Still My Mother, Still My Father by photographer Isadora Kosofsky, winner of the 2017 Emerging Lens Mentorship Program. Still My Mother was originally presented alongside Vinny and David: Life and Incarceration of a Family at […]

Women's Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence and Discrimination Presented By National Public Housing Museum and ART WORKS Projects Featuring reflections on feminism and the urgency of this moment by Beth Richie, Nadine Naber, Lynette Jackson and Bernardine Dohrn OPENING RECEPTION:  September 14th 6:00 PM-8:00 PM 625 N. Kingsbury Street Chicago, […]

Please join International Rescue Committee Seattle, St. Joseph's Parish, and ART WORKS Projects for an evening of conversation about welcoming refugees to Seattle and a screening of the short film Sanctuary/Sustenance: The Story of Many Journeys. We will be joined by the Biswa Family who resettled in Tukwila from a refugee camp in Nepal in […]

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