This exhibition brings to the public eye another stage of completion of the participatory art project So (Sew) America Cares, initiated by fiber artist Aurora Molina in June 2019. Molina has joined efforts with the organization Americans for Immigrant Justice to create awareness and to promote the conversation on the Zero Tolerance Immigration policies that have caused a prolonged and indefinite separation between children and their parents at the US border. She created individual sewing kits where the single portrait of one of the children (ten different faces, altogether) was laser etched on a piece of raw canvas, and encouraged participants to employ an array of materials to stitch, sew, knit, knot, crochet, embroider, or braid their images on the fabric. As the pieces returned to her, Molina pieced them together in the fashion of remembrance quilts.

Starting in Miami, the project has quickly grown internationally and will be continued until 1000 faces have been created to integrate a giant piece that will remind us not only of how many people care, but also that art and community can be strong tools for change.

You can learn more and be part of the So (Sew) America Cares project here: https://www.auroramolina.com/social-practice