Can co-creating ambiance offer dignity? Our embodied, visual and sonic life, which manifests in our sensibilities and dreams, is deeply interwoven with our experience and sense of relation. A vital part of the experience of migration is cultivating resilience through creative means. A-Museum shares these migratory rituals through collective storytelling, song, dance and drawing.

The current iteration of A-Museum takes the form of a NYC Public Artist Residency in partnership with Housing Recovery Operations (HRO), the Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (OASO), and the migrant community at a HERRC Migrant Shelter in the Bronx. We have created an art club at the shelter and, soon, we will also have art club sessions at HRO. These efforts facilitate the co-creation of healing practices with asylum seekers at this critical time — creative means to relate emotions and affirm culture within office/governmental and shelter environments. Bridging the public servant and migrant communities through the arts will help us explore and imagine the roles art, agency and liberation may play in public administration models.

See documentation of art club sessions here soon.