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Houston Public Library is one of 15 public libraries around the country chosen to host World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration. Developed by the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, this traveling exhibition is organized according to four main questions:

• Where do we come from?

• Why do we move?

• How does migration change us?

• Where are we going?

By presenting case studies from across human history and an array of cultures, World on the Move invites visitors to recognize that migration is a complex and diverse shared human experience. The exhibition aims to expand the public conversation on the topic of migration and displacement through narrative and interactive displays.

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Picture Books and Kids Fiction

• They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles

• Do I Belong Here? | ¿Es este mi lugar? by René Colato Laínez

• What Is a Refugee? by Elise Gravel

• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai

• Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

• We Are a Garden: A Story of How Diversity Took Root in America by Lisa Westberg Peters

• A Different Pond by Bao Phi

• Somewhere for Little Bear by Britta Teckentrup

• How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trails of Tears Story by Tim Tingle

Kids Non-Fiction and Biographies

• The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande

• Out of Hiding: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey to America by Ruth Gruener

• Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II by Albert Marrin

• In the Spirit of a Dream: Thirteen Stories of American Immigrants of Color by Aida Salazar

• Dear America: The Story of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

Teen Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Come On In: 15 Stories About Immigration and Finding Home by Adi Alsaid

• Through Fences by Frederick Luis Aldama

• Brighter than the Sun by Daniel Aleman

• Manuelito: A Graphic Novel by Elisa Amado

• Love in English by Maria E. Andreu

• Don't Ask Me Where I'm From by Jennifer De Leon

• Someday We Will Fly by Rachel DeWoskin

• The Freezies by Farrukh Dhondy

• Lobizona by Romina Garber

• Refugee by Alan Gratz

• Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai

• When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

• Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza

• Bridge Across the Sky by Freeman Ng

• Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera

• We Are Not from Here | No somos de aquí by Jenny Torres Sanchez

• The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

• Game Seven by Paul Volponi

Teen Non-Fiction and Biographies

• The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown

• A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: One Teen Refugee's incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming

• Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

• Call Me American: The Extraordinary True Story of a Young Somali Immigrant by Abdi Nor Iftin

• We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults by Susan Kuklin

• Next Round: A Young Athlete's Journey to Gold by John Spray

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

• The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border by Juan Pablo Villalobos

Adult Fiction and Graphic Novels

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

• Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict

• We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

• Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares

• Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capó Crucet

• Dominicana by Angie Cruz

• What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

• A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman

• Coleman Hill: A Biomythography by Kim Coleman Foote

• Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

• The Leavers by Lisa Ko

• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

• Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah

• The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration by Nnedi Okorafor

• There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes

• Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson

• Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

• My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci

• The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi

• The Next Ship Home by Heather Webb

• Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon

Adult Non-Fiction and Biographies

• The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui

• Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants by George W. Bush

• Deported Americans: Life After Deportation to Mexico by Beth C. Caldwell

• The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

• A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle

• A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming

• Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything is Possible by Stephen Haff

• A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious by Ru'ya Hakkakiyan

• Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

• Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers

• My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines by Efrén C. Olivares

• The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah

• Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century by Sarah Abrevaya Stein

• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

   

Library of Things

• Catan

• Ticket to Ride

• Ticket to Ride: Asia

• Ticket to Ride: First Journey

• Tonie Box: World Stories, Set 1

• Tonie Box, World Stories, Set 2

World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration was developed by the American Anthropological Association, together with the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Smithsonian Exhibits. It is administered by the American Library Association's Public Programs Office. View the exhibition and learn more at https://understandingmigration.org/. 

Haruki Murakami and Paul Theroux Book Signing | Zadie Smith | Margaret Atwood Library | All images © Laura Wilson

Image courtesy Tierney Malone

Images courtesy of Houston Community College

• Bingham, Jane, Indian Art & Culture
• Chan, Maisie, Danny Chung Sums It Up
• Gavin, Jamila, Tales from India
• Hodge, Susie, Hokusai: He Saw the World in a Wave
• Hughes, Emily, The Snail
• Khanduri, Kamini, Japanese Art & Culture
• Hibbert, Claire, Chinese Art & Culture
• Leung, Julie, Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist
• Zhang, Kat, The Magic Paintbrush

• Adornment and Splendour: Jewels of the Indian Courts
• Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum
• Chen, Walter, The Fine Art of Chinese Brush Painting
• Craven, Roy C., Indian Art: A Concise History
• Dehejia, Vidya, Art of the Imperial Cholas
• Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum, Chinese Buddhist Art
• Kee, Joan, Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method
• Korean Art: The Power of Now
• Lee, Soyoung, Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600
• Mahon, Joi, Create the Perfect Fit: Measuring and Pattern Fitting for Real Sewing Solutions
• Okim, Komelia Hongja, Korean Metal Art: Techniques, Inspiration, and Traditions
• Ono, Takumasa, The Simple Art of Sumi-E: Mastering Japanese Ink Painting
• Paget, Rhiannon, Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art
• Smith, Alison, Dressmaking: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Own Clothes
• Thorp, Robert L., Chinese Art & Culture

• China Avant-Garde: From Bicycles to BMWs
• The First Monday in May
• Infinity: The LIfe and Art of Yayoi Kusama
• Sewing Essentials
• Sumi-e: The Art of Japanese Ink Painting
• Vaastu Marabu

• Crafts & Hobbies: Sumi-e
• Go
• Hues and Clues: A Guessing Game of Colors and Clues
• Pete the Cat: I Love My Buttons Game

Left image: Nicolas Flamel from a 1971 facsimile of Biblioteca Chemica (Chemical library), E. Roth-Scholtz, 1727. | Middle image: Detail from Liber de Arte Distillandi de Compositis (Book of the art of distillation of compound bodies), Hieronymus Brunschwig, 1512. | Right image: A human body and the astrological signs that govern it from Fasciculo de Medicina (Bundle of medicine), Joannes de Ketham, 1493/1494. All images courtesy National Library of Medicine.

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | English | Español | Chư ̃Viêt | Italiano | 한국인 | русский
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | English | Español | 中文 | Italiano | 한국인 | 日本語
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | English | Español | 中文 | Français | Italiano | 한국인
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | English | Español | 한국인 | Italiano | 中文 | 日本語
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | English | Español | 中文 | Chư ̃Viêt |Deutsch | 
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince English | Español | 中文 | Italiano
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | English | Chư ̃Viêt| 日本語
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | English | 中文 |
• The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac: The Official Magical Companion to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard: A Wizarding Classic from the World of Harry Potter
• Quidditch Through the Ages

• Dawson, Ian, Renaissance Medicine
• Elliott, Lynne, The Renaissance in Europe
• Hilliam, Rachel, Galileo Galilei: Father of Modern Science
• Pagel-Hogan, Elizabeth, The Science and Technology of Leonardo da Vinci

• Anderson, Julie, The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
• Ball, Philip, The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
• Brotton, Jerry, The Renaissance
• Christian, Charles, The Witches Almanac: Sorcerers, Witches and Magic from Ancient Rome to the Digital Age
• Currie, Stephen, The Renaissance
• Grafton, Anthony, Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
• Schneider, David, The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine from the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
• Wilson, D. K., A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
• Renaissance and the Birth of Modern Science
• Renaissance and Magic: Witchcraft

• Hogwarts Cake Pan

Images courtesy Raquel Natalicchio and Houston History Research Center

At the heart of Al Otro Lado/The Other Side lies the convergence of individual stories and geographical context. This exhibition features the work of photojournalist Raquel Natalicchio, focusing on her portraits and interviews of people who have migrated to the United States. Their personal narratives, highlighting their diverse experiences and journeys, are paired with historical maps highlighting regions along the U.S.-Mexico border, sourced from the Houston History Research Center. These maps not only chart physical landscapes but also document the history leading up the establishment of the border and the socio-political complexities surrounding immigration. 

En el corazón de “Al Otro Lado/The Other Side” se encuentra la convergencia de historias individuales y contexto geográfico. Esta exposición presenta el trabajo de la fotoperiodista Raquel Natalicchio, centrándose en sus retratos y entrevistas de personas que han migrado a Estados Unidos. Sus narrativas personales, que resaltan sus diversas experiencias y trayectorias, se complementan con mapas históricos que ilustran las regiones a lo largo de la frontera entre EE.UU. y México, provenientes del Houston History Research Center. Estos mapas no solo trazan paisajes físicos, sino que también documentan la historia que condujo al establecimiento de la frontera y las complejidades sociopolíticas en torno a la inmigración.

About the Photojournalist | Sobre la fotoperiodista

Raquel Natalicchio is a bilingual photojournalist originally from Los Angeles, now based in Houston as a staff photojournalist for the Houston Chronicle. Her work focuses on social issues, migration, political mobilization, and community-driven stories across the U.S.–Mexico border. Her long-term project Borderlands explores the cultural and human complexity of border life. A passionate educator, she has developed photography curricula for Las Fotos Project and the Houston Center for Photography, empowering youth through self-expression. Natalicchio has organized exhibitions and talks in Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and London. She is South Regional Chair of the National Press Photographers Association and founder of The Open Door Gallery, a roaming gallery dedicated to supporting artists and building community. 

Raquel Natalicchio es una fotoperiodista bilingüe originaria de Los Ángeles, California, y actualmente reside en Houston, Texas, donde trabaja como periodista visual para The Houston Chronicle. Raquel documenta temas sociales, migración, la movilización política y historias impulsadas por la comunidad a través de la frontera entre EE.UU. y México. Su proyecto a largo plazo llamado “Borderlands” explora la complejidad cultural y humana de la vida fronteriza. Educadora apasionada, ha desarrollado programas de fotografía para Las Fotos Project y The Houston Center for Photography, empoderando a los jóvenes a través de la autoexpresión. Natalicchio ha organizado exposiciones y conferencias en Houston, Los Ángeles, Nueva York y Londres. Raquel es la Presidenta Regional Sur de la National Press Photographers Association y fundadora de The Open Door Gallery, una galería itinerante dedicada a apoyar a artistas y fortalecer la comunidad.  

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Saving Immigrant Voices (Freeing DETAINED Texas Tour: Houston) | Wednesday, May 21, 2:00 PM

>> Opening Reception with Raquel Natalicchio | Saturday, June 14, 12:00 - 2:00 PM <<

This exhibition is generously supported by Houston Public Library, Houston Public Library Foundation, and City of Houston. 

Esta exposición cuenta con el generoso apoyo de Houston Public Library, Houston Public Library Foundation y City of Houston.

Images courtesy Ateliers Perrault, Rebâtir Notre-Dame de Paris, and La Maison Luquet

Installation view of Through Our Eyes: The Art of Family, Friendship, and Pastimes

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)’s Teaching Artists In Classrooms (TAIC) program is a collaborative initiative that integrates professional artists into school settings, fostering creativity and self-expression among students at South Early College High School (SECHS). Over two weeks, students engaged in a meaningful art project under the guidance of local artist Carlos Mendoza, renowned for his evocative portraiture exploring his relationship with the city of Houston. Students began by selecting photographs of deep personal significance, which served as the foundation for their original sketches. Reflecting on the question, “Who is depicted in your image, and what do they mean to you?” students connected their artwork to personal narratives, bringing emotional depth to their creations.

Under Mendoza’s mentorship, students were encouraged to step outside their comfort zones, especially as many had never considered themselves artists. For most, this project marked their first experience with acrylic paints, pushing them to explore new techniques and mediums. The resulting artworks are vibrant self-portraits that reflect relationships with family, friends, and pastimes, showcasing the students' resilience and creativity. This collaboration between CAMH, SECHS, and Houston Public Library underscores the transformative power of art in education, empowering students to explore their identities, develop artistic voices, and celebrate the intersection of community and creativity.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 5:00 - 7:00 PM | Opening Celebration of Through Our Eyes: The Art of Family, Friendship, and Pastimes

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About Teaching Artists in Classrooms (TAIC)

The Teaching Artists in Classrooms (TAIC) program allows K-12 students from historically under-resourced school to learn from and work closely with a local Houston artist on a collaborative project in their home classroom. This program is a natural outgrowth of CAMH"s many conversations with HISD art teachers on their needs, especially current and past participants of CAMH's Teacher Advisory Group (TAG). The program provides teachers with additional support in the classroom and emerging artists with professional development opportunities. Hand-selected teaching artists work with art teachers on projects that meet the school's community needs and bring new ideas, materials, and perspectives into the classroom. Furthermore, these artists establish a direct connection with the Museum by bringing students on field lessons to the Museum and introducing them to CAMH. Currently, TAIC participating teachers are from HISD and Aldine ISD.

About Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH)

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents extraordinary, thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions to educate and inspire audiences nationally and internationally.

Established in 1948, CAMH is one of the country's oldest non-collecting contemporary art museums and is internationally known for presenting pivotal and landmark work by artists recognized as the most important of the 20th and 21st centuries. CAMH’s mandate is to be present, to connect artists and audiences through the urgent issues of our time, and to adventurously promote the catalytic possibilities of contemporary art. CAMH’s programming, both in and beyond the Museum, is presented free to the public and advocates for artists’ essential role and impact in society. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is located in the heart of the Museum distinct at 5216 Montrose Boulevard. For more information, visit camh.org.