Aram Han Sifuentes – Let Us Vote!
Bush Art Center, Baer Gallery, October 3 – October 27, 2022
This exhibition brought together works by Aram Han Sifuentes that explore democracy, citizenship, and political participation. Through fiber art and socially engaged practice, Sifuentes examines democracy as a contested space where people claim political voice through citizenship, dissent, protest, and solidarity with communities excluded from political representation. Her work engages questions of immigration, identity, belonging, and racial politics in the contemporary United States, challenging viewers to consider who is recognized as a citizen, who has the right to participate, and whose voices remain unheard.
Sifuentes is a fiber and social practice artist whose work creates spaces for immigrant and disenfranchised communities to claim visibility, agency, and political power. Drawing on traditions of sewing and collective making, she facilitates skill-sharing workshops and multiethnic, intergenerational sewing circles that foster empowerment, subversion, and protest. Her practice demonstrates how everyday acts of making and gathering can become forms of civic engagement and collective resistance.
Exhibition Catalog: Aram Han Sifuentes – Let Us Vote! (PDF)
Research Exposition in the Research Catalogue (RC): Aram Han Sifuentes – Let Us Vote!
Exhibition Installation Images
Special Thanks to the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, & Public Understanding, the Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning, the Honors Program, the Office of Student Inclusion and Belonging, the Mulva Library, the Bush Art Center Galleries, and the Art Department for support of this programming.