Northern Illinois University
Art Museum
College of Visual and Performing Arts

Fall 2021
August 24 - November 12, 2021

"The Art of Surviving: The Journey of the Karen Refugees in Illinois

Exhibition organized by the Center for Burma Studies at NIU with financial support from a Luce Grant to conduct oral histories with recently resettled community members.

Refuge and Refugee

Contemporary artists explore global humanitarian crises as displaced persons forced to flee their home country attempt to find refuge elsewhere.

Artists included in the exhibition: Luciana Abait, Karen Albanese Campbell, Yolanda del Amo,Tere Garcia, Judith Joseph, Rebecca Keller, Eddy Lopez, Stephen Walt, Kathy Weaver.

Image caption: Luciana Abait, Black Sky, 2018. Photograph on cotton rag paper, from the Displacement Series. (30” x 40”).