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Prattfolio showcases recent works by four Pratt alumni artists whose work speaks to notions of home and belonging.

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Artists Explore Ideas Of Home In ‘Somewhere To Roost’ At American Folk Art Museum

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The American Folk Art Museum examines the multifaced implications of “home” in “Somewhere to Roost,” an exhibition exploring the ways artists evoke and construct ideas of “home.”

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What does it mean to be displaced from culture and home? What are the historical contexts for understanding our contemporary moment? How does an artist's work and process embody and engage the narratives of displacement and belonging?

Crossing Lines, Constructing Home investigates two parallel ideas: national, political, and cultural conceptions of boundaries and borders; and the evolving hybrid spaces, identities, languages, and beliefs created by the movement of peoples.

While offering historical context and a consideration of the forces that commonly drive migration, such as political instability, natural disasters, and oppression linked to race, religion, culture, and class, the exhibition presents a more complicated narrative about immigration and displacement than the usual rhetoric that dominates the public sphere and polarizes debate. Crossing Lines unsettles accepted notions of what constitutes a boundary and of what characterizes the migrant or refugee experience-in part by exploring how culture can persist and be embraced despite displacement. Acknowledging passage as a space of both trauma and transformation, the exhibition opens up new ways of understanding the immigrant experience.

Rather than aiming for an encyclopedic approach to the topic, the curators have sought to frame this metaphoric intervention through a range of experiences and geographies, all while staying focused on historical specificity and individual experience.

The more than 40 works in the exhibition, all but one drawn from the museums' permanent collections, reflect a global community of contemporary artists, including sculpture by Do Ho Suh, Bosco Sodi, and Emily Jacir; photographs by Richard Misrach, Jim Goldberg, Graciela Iturbide, and Serena Chopra; prints by Zarina; a large work mixing photosilkscreen and drawing by Eugenio Dittborn; a slide projection by Candida Höfer; and a video installation by Willie Doherty.

Curated by Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums.

This exhibition is made possible by the Rosenblatt Fund for Postwar American Art, the Agnes Gund Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art, and the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Fund for Photography. Exhibition-related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund, the Nancy S. Nichols Memorial Lecture Fund, and the Richard L. Menschel Endowment Fund. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.

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Learn more about the exhibition in our series of videos, including a recording of the opening night lecture with exhibition curators Makeda Best and Mary Schneider Enriquez, in discussion with Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi (Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Jessica Hong (Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College): vimeo.com/channels/1493625

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Exhibitions, Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art | Harvard Art Museums

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What does it mean to be displaced from culture and home? What are the historical contexts for understanding our contemporary moment? How does an artist's work and process embody and engage the narratives of displacement and belonging?

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A way from home: Bethlem artists on longing and belonging

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Artists reveal their inner thoughts on the theme of home in a new exhibition at Bethlem Museum of the Mind A way from home: Bethlem artists on longing and belonging brings together works by former Bethlem Hospital patients and service…

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The word home has many meanings.

It can be the physical space we live in or a feeling that goes beyond a specific time or place.

In the Home Galleries we explore the concept of home through people's everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home over the last 400 years.

There is a real mix of contemporary and historical stories in this space, and there are interactive elements.

How we make our homes

We explore how we come to acquire the things that make up our homes and the hidden stories they reveal. The choices we make about the things we keep around us say a lot about our taste and identity. We explore different choices available at different times.

How we look after our homes

We consider the business of maintaining our homes and gardens, and how this has changed over time. We trace change, continuity and resistance to new technologies and practices.

We investigate the labour involved in keeping a household, whether it's getting rid of bedbugs or using oxen's gallbladder to clean carpets.

How we relax and spend time at home

We reveal how people spend time at home. We begin with the idea of comfort and feeling at home, and how this can be disrupted, particularly through loss or illness.

We explore leisure from music-making and broadcast entertainment, dining and socialising to children's play. And we consider devotional practice within the home.

Table Talk

Take a seat at our kitchen table and tell us your thoughts about home.

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Home Galleries | Making home | Keeping home | Being at home | Museum of the Home

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Home Galleries - Exploring the concept of home through people's everyday experiences of making, keeping and being at home over the last 400 years.

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Zarina Hashmi's 'Home is a Foreign Place'

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Zarina Hashmi's 'Home is a Foreign Place'

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This series of woodblock prints with Urdu calligraphy is absolutely gorgeous, dears! Each print represents a memory of home through abstract symbols. Beautiful example of how text and image can work together to explore personal meanings of home.

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Dean's work with found photographs and film explores memory and place in such a touching way. Her pieces about abandoned homes and spaces really make you think about the temporal nature of 'home'. Fantastic inspiration for mixed media projects!

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This installation piece is absolutely brilliant for discussing the precarious nature of 'home' in our modern world. The way everyday domestic objects are suspended between barriers creates such a powerful statement about displacement and belonging. Great reference for mixed media work!

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John Berger's 'And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos'

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John Berger's 'And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos'

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A beautifully poetic exploration of home, time, and space. Berger's writing about his experiences of migration and exile offers profound insights into the relationship between place and identity. Essential reading for any art student exploring themes of belonging!

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This fantastic novel explores post-war immigration to Britain and what it means to find a sense of belonging in a new country. The contrasting perspectives of the characters provide rich material for exploring different concepts of 'home'. Brilliant for contextual studies!

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What a marvellous poem for exploring the immigrant experience of home! Duffy, our former Poet Laureate, captures the confusion and adaptation of moving to a new country brilliantly. The line 'All childhood is an emigration' gets me every time. Perfect for cross-referencing with displacement themes in your artwork.

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One of my favourite contemporary artists exploring the concept of home! Suh creates these gorgeous translucent fabric installations of his past homes, layered within each other. Absolutely brilliant for discussing cultural identity and the portable nature of 'home' in our global society.

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Absolutely fascinating piece, loves! This Turner Prize-winning sculpture cast the entire interior of a Victorian terraced house in concrete. Brilliant commentary on memory, absence, and the physical essence of 'home'. Perfect for discussing negative space and architectural forms in your coursework.