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"Newer New Colossus." It's a contribution to the discussion around monuments - maybe a monument proposal? - as well as a reflection on who is welcome and how they are welcomed.” - Rejin Leys

Rejin Leys is a mixed media artist and paper maker based in New York, whose work has been exhibited at such venues as Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo, DR; Kentler International Drawing Space, NY; Queens Museum, NY; and Les Ateliers J.R. Jerome, PaP, Haiti. Her work is in the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Yale University, and Rutgers University Caribbean Studies Department, and she is a recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HER WORK, VISIT rejinleys.com