In collaboration with the Humanities Action Lab (HAL), Newest Americans co-curated the Newark iteration of HAL’s national touring exhibit States of Incarceration with Project For Empty Space, First Friends of New York and New Jersey, and the American Studies doctoral program at Rutgers University- Newark. The exhibit, Seeking Asylum, Resisting Detention, also featured Newest Americans co-founder Ed Kashi’s almost life -size portraits of asylum seekers detained in the region. Using a mobile phone to scan QR codes on the photo captions, gallery-goers received a phone call from each detainee describing their experience.
Project for Empty Space, October 18, 2017 – December 15, 2017
Photo by Stephanie Khoury 
Photo by Stephanie Khoury 
Photo by Anthony Alvarez 
Photo by Anthony Alvarez 
Photo by Anthony Alvarez 
Photo by Anthony Alvarez