Listen: Immigrants reclaim their identity through passports in MSU student exhibit

Vivek Vellanki (left) and Romina Peña-Pincheira inside the exhibit. Vellanki and Peña-Pincheira are Ph.D. students in the College of Education at Michigan State University.

Audrey Matusz

Bardy was one of the younger participants in the exhibit “Do you have anything to declare?” His work included a comic on the left panel of what could be imagined as a dialogue between himself and a TSA agent.

Audrey Matusz

Posted Monday, November 4, 2019 11:28 am

Audrey Matusz

City Pulse arts editor Audrey Matusz reports on an exhibit by Vivek Vellanki, a Ph.D. Candidate in the College of Education at Michigan State University. He asked immigrants of various ages and ethnicities, “What do you want the world to know about you?" The result is a colorful project reclaiming objects of bureaucracy.

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