About (G)Project

The (G)eneration Project was launched in 2014 by New York-based immigrant artist Edward Hillel with community organizer Bertha Lewis, founder of The Black Institute.

Its initial focus was to create a vision of immigration that includes the black diaspora, shifting the narrative about African-Americans from slavery and freedom to emigration (forced or voluntary) and adaptation.

The current negative rhetoric about immigrants in the United States and globally has raised the urgency and potential of The (G)eneration Project to be a catalyst for an inclusive conversation encouraging us to recognize that we are ALL immigrants, in order to see ourselves in each other, and each other in ourselves.

The (G)eneration Project postulates that we all share a number of generations (G) that we have been in our country: A few examples:

G-0s born elsewhere.

G-1s first-generation born here.

G-3s third-generation born here.

G-17 and later descended from white Europeans and/or enslaved Africans from the 1600s.

G-433s and longer Indigenous people.

Through educational programs, exhibitions, performances, public art, symposiums and social media, the (G)eneration Project invites students, families, artists, institutions and cities to participate in a public conversation about who we are.