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DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by the Stanford Institute for Advancing Just Socie
 ties\, Zócalo Public Square\, the Zhou B Art Center\, and OH Art Foundation
 \n\nStanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies (IAJS) and Zócalo Pub
 lic Square will host the second in a nationwide series of events entitled “
 What Can Become of Us?” on August 15\, 2025\, at the Zhou B Art Center in C
 hicago. With this series\, IAJS and Zócalo\, a unit of Arizona State Univer
 sity Media Enterprise\, invite everyone to envision new perspectives on mig
 ration\, America’s changing communities\, and how people come together acro
 ss differences. \n\n\nInspiring art\n\nThe United States is a tapestry of g
 roups that have collectively created American culture\, politics\, and soci
 ety. In Chicago\, one in every five people is an immigrant. From across the
  country and around the world\, they have migrated to what Norman Mailer on
 ce described as “the great American city\,” settling in neighborhoods like 
 Portage Park\, the South Side\, and Bridgeport\, and stitching their custom
 s\, skills\, and values into the fabric of existing communities. If we thin
 k of America as a composite of interlaced patterns\, who carries the loom\,
  and who threads the needle? How does the American fabric remain woven toge
 ther in fraught times and through history? \n\nThis program is inspired by 
 So\, I told her I was half-Indian (2025) by Chicanx and Punjabi American we
 aver Kira Dominguez Hultgren. The piece\, multiple looms woven together as 
 a suspended sculpture\, is commissioned by IAJS and will be on view at Zhou
  B Art Center from August 12 to September 12\, 2025.\n\nPanel of luminaries
 \n\nJoin us August 15 at Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport for a special Thir
 d Friday Art Walk event to view the artwork and hear a talk between artist 
 Kira Dominguez Hultgren and guitarist and Chicago Immigrant Orchestra co-di
 rector Fareed Haque\, who will discuss the work’s larger themes\, including
  how race plays out across generations\, how public memorials help make hus
 hed histories visible\, and how new technology reveals outdated stereotypes
 . \n\nA panel moderated by Stanford IAJS faculty co-director Brian Lowery a
 nd featuring Yale historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner David W. Blight\, his
 toric preservation leader Bonnie McDonald\, and creative consultant and fas
 hion designer Siying Qu will follow\, discussing how migrant communities he
 lp stitch together our ideas of American life.\n\nComplimentary reception\n
 \nWe invite our in-person audience to continue the conversation with the ar
 tist\, speakers\, and each other at a post-event reception with complimenta
 ry drinks and small bites\, art-viewing\, informal art talks\, and live mus
 ic by the Chicago Immigrant Orchestra.\n\nAgenda\n\n6:30 pm CT Check in and
  art viewing\n\n7:15 pm CT Artist Conversation\n\n7:35 pm CT Panel Conversa
 tion\n\n8:25 pm CT Reception\n\nImage credit: Gracie Hammond
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SUMMARY:“How Is Migration Woven Into America?”
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URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/how-is-migration-woven-into-america
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