The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College is hosting a collaborative exhibition tour on September 30, 2026, featuring two concurrent shows: "Shared Ground: Asian American Art in Conversation" and "Community and Exile: Paris, 1910–1939." Curators will lead an in-depth conversation exploring how art serves as a channel for understanding migration and fostering connection, with the first exhibition focusing on Asian American artists navigating new environments in the United States and the second on artists in Paris between the world wars.
This event matters because it directly addresses how visual art can articulate complex experiences of displacement, diaspora, and belonging—themes of urgent relevance in contemporary global discourse. By pairing Asian American art with historical exile in Paris, the tour offers a cross-cultural, comparative lens that enriches public understanding of art's role in processing migration and building community across time and place.