upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Michelle Angela Ortiz
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2013 Art and Change Grant – $2,500
- Neighborhood: South Philadelphia
- Change Partner: Jasmine Rivera, Juntos
- Discipline: Media Arts, Visual Arts
- Social Change / Intent: Displacement / Migration / Immigration
Over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States run the risk of deportation and their families being torn apart. Michelle’s project, Broken Families: Picking Up the Pieces, is a series of temporary site-specific public art works that will mark locations of immigrant families affected by deportations in Philadelphia. Through in-depth interviews of family members, each piece of created artwork will tell their stories and be documented through photographs and video. Finally, a virtual online map will spread awareness of the current unjust immigration system.
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