What We Bring: New Immigrant Gifts
City Lore's exhibit, "What We Bring: New Immigrant Gifts" features the art, objects, ideas and stories of thirty-one artists whose practice has shaped the cultural fabric of New York City and the U.S. at large.
What We Bring commemorates the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act. The Hart-Celler Act disbanded a nationality-based quota system that had previously made up the basis for the U.S.'s Immigration Policy and an influx of immigrants from Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean.
"What We Bring: New Immigrant Gifts" is on display at City Lore's Gallery 56 E. 1st St in New York, NY until November 1st, 2018, after which it will be moving to the Central Library in Jamaica, Queens.
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