Creative reuse of the Fronteridades Archive funds projects and scholarships that creatively analyze, contextualize, reinterpret, or build upon the primary source materials, stories, and public programming featured across the Fronteridades website. This includes Voices of Fronteridades (oral histories, blog, and podcast series), the Undergraduate Internship Program, Fronteridades Fellows and Scholars (faculty, graduate, and creative scholars), the Fronteridades Lecture Series, the Border Arts Collective, and Migrant and Asylum-Seeker Stories. Deliverables challenge reductive or dominant portrayals of the borderlands and instead highlight collaboration, creativity, care, and community knowledge.
Susan Alejandra Barnett
Reimagining the Voices of Fronteridades
Reimagining the Voices of Fronteridades is a short-form video storytelling series that transforms oral histories and research from the Fronteridades program into accessible, visually driven narratives for digital audiences. Drawing from the Voices of Fronteridades podcast, the series will reinterpret borderlands knowledge through six short vertical videos that, stitched together, create one horizontal, long-form piece.
Riqué Simón Lee Duhamell Escobedo
Stitching Fronteridades: Embroidered Narratives of Borderlands Knowledge and Care
Stitching Fronteridades is a creative project that transforms the work of Fronteridades Fellows and Scholars into hand-embroidered graduation cap covers, translating borderlands research and community knowledge into wearable art. These caps will be offered to said Scholars/Fellows and/or to graduating students, celebrating their achievements while amplifying the stories, creativity, and care embedded in U.S.-Mexico borderlands scholarship.
Emmanuel Fernando Serrano
ter·ri·to·ry
ter·ri·to·ry is a mixed-media project that transforms migrant oral histories from the Fronteridades archive into ceramic, print, and woven forms, placing the surveillance camera-the eye of the state-into tension with the human voice. Through handmade objects, the work honors desert crossing as embodied knowledge, memory, and testimony worthy of permanence, care, and public witnessing.