OTRO MUNDO ES POSIBLE

Aram Han Sifuentes, Verónica Casado Hernandez, OTRO MUNDO ES POSIBLE, 2017, felt, fusible web, and bias tape on cotton, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible through Jaimianne and Anthony Jacobin in honor of the James Renwick Alliance, 2021.36, © 2017, Aram Han Sifuentes
Aram Han Sifuentes, Verónica Casado Hernandez, OTRO MUNDO ES POSIBLE, 2017, felt, fusible web, and bias tape on cotton, overall banner: 42 78 × 42 12 in. (108.9 × 108 cm) ties: 6 – 10 in. card: 4 x 6 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible through Jaimianne and Anthony Jacobin in honor of the James Renwick Alliance, 2021.36, © 2017, Aram Han Sifuentes

Artwork Details

Title
OTRO MUNDO ES POSIBLE
Date
2017
Dimensions
overall banner: 42 78 × 42 12 in. (108.9 × 108 cm) ties: 6 – 10 in. card: 4 x 6 in.
Copyright
© 2017, Aram Han Sifuentes
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible through Jaimianne and Anthony Jacobin in honor of the James Renwick Alliance
Mediums
Mediums Description
felt, fusible web, and bias tape on cotton
Classifications
Subjects
  • Allegory — quality — hope
Object Number
2021.36

Artwork Description

This banner was created during one of Aram Han Sifuentes’s community-based Protest Banner Lending Library workshops. Sifuentes, a Chicago-based artist and Korean immigrant, created the workshops as alternative sites of protest. She learned to sew at a young age to assist her mother’s work as a seamstress.


The banner was created following the Trump administration’s controversial decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (known as DACA). The reversal threatened legal protections granted to 800,000 people who entered the country undocumented as children. Protesting this action, the phrase “Otro Mundo Es Posible” emphasizes the idea that a more just and equitable world is possible. 


This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, 2022

Works by this artist (1 item)

A. Kinder or Rinder, Drawing on Door, 1887, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1952.13.82
Drawing on Door
Date1887
oil on canvas
On view

More Artworks from the Collection

William Holbrook Beard, The Runaway Match, 1877, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1977.55
The Runaway Match
Date1877
oil on canvas
Not on view
John Henry Twachtman, Figure in Sunlight (Artist's Wife), ca. 1890-1900, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.137
Figure in Sunlight (Artist’s Wife)
Dateca. 1890-1900
oil on canvas
On view
Unidentified (Italian), Saint, 19th century, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1952.13.157
Saint
Artist
Unidentified (Italian)
Date19th century
oil on canvas
Not on view