Opening Reception for The Illustrated Memoir Project: This is How I Know the World

Maketank Inc’s Illustrated Memoir Project engages young English Language Learners
to tell true stories from their lives in words and images. This work centers the lived
experience and unique ways of knowing the world of immigrant and refugee youth as
well as young people born in the US to parents who had recently immigrated here. The
aim of the Illustrated Memoir Project is to increase intellectual self-trust, multi-modal
literacies, critical thinking, and social emotional learning in the participants and through
sharing these stories to increase empathy and understanding of immigrant experience
and foster a more welcoming global community. The images in this exhibit are original
paintings and drawings from project participants in the Cincinnati area from the past five
years.

On display at Welcome May 11- June 1

Curated by Dr. Kate Currie