Starting over in a new country does not mean leaving every part of home behind. At Unison Arts, Still Becoming: Arrivals & Afterlives explores how memory, culture and identity continue to shape life after migration.

Rebecca Loeffel’s reporting for The New Paltz Oracle highlights work by Esperanza Cortés, Marielena Ferrer-Harrington, Virginia Lavado, Camilo Rojas and César Kastro. Their different approaches bring questions of belonging, displacement and resilience into conversation through art.

The exhibition runs through October 17, according to the article, offering a Hispanic Heritage Month experience centered on individual artists and the stories they carry.

Source: The New Paltz Oracle, September 23, 2026. Original reporting by Rebecca Loeffel.

Photo: César Kastro’s OJO, made with aquaresin and acrylic paint. Photo credit: Rebecca Loeffel / The New Paltz Oracle.