Who gets remembered? Which stories are preserved?

The Sky is a Diasporic Space is YouthCAN’s newest exhibit, exploring collective memory through art. In response to ongoing attacks on migrant communities, students created original works while learning how creativity has supported solidarity movements globally. The exhibit features block prints, kites, oral histories, and more. Together, these youths’ personal mementos and artworks experiment with the world-building possibilities of cataloguing our own lives and the importance of our own stories. The gallery affirms the value of democraticized storytelling in amplifying underrepresented voices and how each of us contributes to our shared social fabric and cultural memory.