In celebration of Immigrant Heritage Month, Unison Arts presents Still Becoming: Arrivals & Afterlives, a multidisciplinary program honoring immigrant voices, stories, and creative practices in the Hudson Valley.

Opening during Upstate Art Weekend, this weeklong activation features a group exhibition, participatory workshops, performances, and community storytelling that explore migration as an ongoing process—not a single moment in time, but a lifelong unfolding shaped by memory, movement, labor, and belonging.

The exhibition brings together immigrant and first-generation artists working across visual art, craft, sound, and installation. Their work reflects on journeys taken and imagined, ancestral knowledge carried forward, and the ways identities continue to evolve across generations. Themes include home and displacement, intergenerational memory, relationships to land, and the resilience required to build new lives.

Throughout the month, visitors are invited to take part in hands-on workshops led by immigrant artists and tradition-bearers, offering opportunities to learn through making and shared experience. Story circles and artist talks create space for intimate conversations around migration, justice, and creativity, while a featured performance and sound program activates Unison’s historic site with music, spoken word, and movement.

A participatory storytelling installation invites visitors to reflect on their own histories of arrival and transformation—contributing to a growing collective portrait of a region shaped by movement and exchange.

Exhibiting Artists:

Esperanza Cortes, Agustin Diocares, Marielena Ferrer, Virginia Lavado Ramos, Camilo Rojas.