RU Workshop: Reflecting on Migration Through the Visual Arts: What We Leave Behind

Saturday July 4, 2026 | 12:00 – 2:00pm

Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map)
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Free Workshop

Limited to 12 participants. If you require any accessibility accommodations, please let us know at info@residencyunlimited.org when you RSVP and we will be happy to assist.

RSVP required.

Join Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario (2022 VoM/RU alum) for this interactive workshop, in which participants will explore examples of visual artwork that amplify migrant rights and immigration justice.

Participants of all creative and artistic abilities will create a piece of artwork that explores the significance of personal objects and their use as a tool of self-reflection, as well as a generator of conversations around connectivity, narratives, and advocacy.

Please bring a few small objects that remind you of “home” that you don’t mind modifying.

No prior painting experience is necessary and all materials are provided.

Click above to see pictures from the workshop.

About

Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario is currently a Doctoral Fellow in the Art and Art Education department at Teachers College at Columbia University, researching ritualized art-making practices honoring migrant death at the U.S.- Mexico borderland. She was the founder and executive director of ARTE: a grassroots, community-based organization based out of New York City that used the visual arts to amplify the voices of young people of color in schools, jails, and community institutions, to organize for human rights change. For nearly ten years, Marissa served as an Adjunct Lecturer at the City College of New York and in 2022 was a Voices of Multiplicity (VoM) Artist Resident. Marissa holds an M.P.A. from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.