Inside Out / 11M

In collaboration with artist JR’s Inside Out Project, Inside Out 11M urged Congress to create a path to citizenship for Dreamers, TPS holders, farmworkers, essential workers, and all 11 million undocumented immigrants in America.

The participatory public art project traveled by truck to 16 cities in seven states, capturing 36-inch-by-53-inch portraits of locals, which were wheat-pasted in site-specific installations in each city’s most beloved public and community spaces.

Free and open to the public, Inside Out 11M provided participants a platform to assert their solidarity for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in America, see themselves reflected in the cities they call home, and transform messages of personal identity into works of public art.

Longtime Inside Out Project crewmember Luis Gomez, who immigrated to the U.S. from Colombia in 2008, spoke of the project’s ability to bridge divides:

“Passing pathways to citizenship into law will change the minds of everyone about who immigrants are and how our civil rights should be the same no matter where we come from,” said Gomez. “It’s magical, when people see this giant photo of themselves. It banishes any boundaries and you start connecting with people you don’t know."[

See all 1,898 portraits from Inside Out 11M.](https://photobooth.insideoutproject.net/project/28-Inside-Out-11M)