When We First Arrived
Faculty member Mary Lum was one of 100 leading and emerging artists who made work for DYKWTCA (Do You Know Where The Children Are?).

The project created art work based on the sworn testimony of interviews with detained children at the US Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, TX. Conducted in June of last year, reported that a group of volunteer lawyers, doctors, and mental health physicians traveled 鈥渢o record the accounts of the unaccompanied minors, some as young as toddlers, in government custody to assure the US was not in violation of the .鈥 What they found there was so inhumane that they filed a lawsuit against the federal government and released the transcripts of their interviews publicly. DYKWTCA founders shared the children鈥檚 testimony with 100 artists, including Lum. 鈥淭he organizers transcribed the Flores interviews provided by Project Amplify and made them available as searchable PDFs; then artists were asked to read through the accounts and produce a work as a material record of the children鈥檚 experiences.鈥 After appearing in traveling exhibitions, the work will be sold with proceeds and matching donations from partner organizations going to Safe Passage Project with Terra Firma, Innovation Law Lab and Team Brownsville.