August 30, 2025

Migrant Lives: Invisibility, Solidarity, and Repair

By Gabrielle Cabrera

Even in May, it was still dreary with rain in New England. Beatriz, a former fellow at the Hood Museum in Dartmouth, drove us to a farm in the Upper Valley, a segment of land between New Hampshire and Vermont composed of small towns. Karla Rosas, a Mexican-born artist raised in Louisiana, and Yehimi Cambrón Álvarez, a Mexican-born artist raised in Georgia, hopped out of the car, greeted by the scent of manure and the sight of lazing cattle huddled under a barn. My collaborators at Dartmouth and I organized a multi-day workshop with the artists for our migration courses to center creative practices by migrants. As artists, both Karla and Yehimi contend with the experience of undocumented life in the United States and visualize migrant life through the struggle of everyday life.

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