MY TWO HOMES

The My Two Homes Project is an arts education curriculum developed by Root Division and taught by the Latinx Teaching Artist Fellows (LTAFs) to students in the ExCel Program at Mission Education Center. The goal of the project is to enable creative exploration of the emotional and social transitions experienced by recently migrated youth. This year, fellow artists Indira Urrutia and Sofia Sinibaldi collaborated with 100 new students from Mission Education Center, using a variety of techniques and materials to focus on the celebration of family, tradition, home and identity in its many forms. Introducing a wide range of mediums was equally important and consequently, students were exposed to collage, printmaking, painting, drawing, sculpture, tie-dye and tracing. Over the course of a year-long exchange, students developed many projects that reflect the creative work of the students collectively but also individually. The students worked together in the design, concept and ideas behind a wall that divides the country where they come from and the United States. The goal of the classes and projects was to integrate conceptual thinking in the projects based on students’ memories and experiences in their country of origin and San Francisco.