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Breaking Out:
Immigrant Art from Stewart Detention Center

Lumpkin, Georgia

Part of Art at Watson

Join the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Art at Watson for the opening of the exhibit “Breaking Out: Immigrant Art from Stewart Detention Center.” The exhibit has been installed on the first floor of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs (111 Thayer Street, Providence).

The exhibition “Breaking Out: Immigrant Art from Stewart Detention Center” offers a first-person perspective on life for individuals from the Caribbean, Latin America and beyond, who have been or are currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA. Comprising letters, artwork, and objects created by people detained at SDC, the exhibition evokes themes of repressive detention conditions, memories of life before experiencing immigration enforcement, and hope for a future free from institutional violence. 

This event is sponsored by the Mellon Sawyer Seminar “Rethinking the Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America.” 

Free and open to the public.

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