We partner with organizations, schools and individuals to help refugees and immigrants capture, create and share their stories. We have worked with various ages from kids, teens, adults and the elderly. Our partners involvement range from connecting us to participants to occasionally cofacilitating or funding a program.
Picture Me Here Fellowship (2017-2018)
With generous support from Arts In Society, we are facilitating a year long fellowship in Creative Media for New Americans, focused on creative writing, audio storytelling, video, photography, animation and professional development. In July 2018 (reception July 27), we will have an exhibit at Colorado Photographic Arts Center and another in September at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
Participants share stories on how the travel ban has impacted them
Sponsor/Partner: PMH Volunteers
New Americans contribute their photographs and creative writing to Write Denver, a city wide project
Logistics Partner: Lighthouse Writers Workshop / Write Denver & Emily Griffith Technical College
Remembering and Rebuilding (2016)
New Americans sharing their history and hopes for the future
Logistics Parter: Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning
Sponsor/Grant: City of Denver Arts and Venues Imagine 2020 / Denver's Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Mini Grant
A kites and and cyanotype workshop
Logistics and Program Partner: Colorado Photographic Arts Center & Airworks Studios
Sponsor/Grant: City of Denver Arts and Venues Imagine 2020
Langtang Photo Album (2015 - ongoing)
Photographic stories from those that lost their village, community and family members in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Logistics and Program Partner: Rasuwa Relief & Langtang Management and Reconstruction Committee
Sponsors: Robert and Vera Bonnet of the Falcon Fund / Individual Donors
English Students at Emily Griffith Technical College (2014)
Photographic storytelling with New Americans
Logistics Partner: Emily Griffith Technical College
Sponsor/Grant: PBS/CPT12
Bhutanese Refugees document their last days in a refugee camp, their long journey to America and first impressions of life in Colorado
Logistics Partner: United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), International Organization for Migration and Caritas Nepal
Sponsors: Individual Donors
Home Country to America (2014)
Young refugees and immigrants share their memories and hopes for the future in an animation
Logistics partner and Sponsor: Lutheran Family Services / English Express Camp & Crawford Elementary
Youth from African Community Center capture their lives in photographs and share them via wheatpasting in Aurora
Logistics Partner and Sponsor: African Community Center
Teens at New America School (2014 - ongoing)
Photo storytelling classes with youth at an alternative high school in Aurora
Logistics Partner and Sponsor: New America School
Southeast Asian Youth and Moms (2013)
Intergenerational photo storytelling at Mercy Housing
Logistics Partner: Mercy Housing
Sponsor: Individual donors
Bhutanese Women's Group (2012)
Photo storytelling with recently resettled Bhutanese women
Logistics Partner: Lutheran Family Services
Sponsor: PMH Volunteers