Art & Cultural Project

Home Through Our Eyes

Name: Home Through Our Eyes
Start: 2025-09-21T14:00:00-04:00
Location: Atlanta High Museum of Art

An art exhibit in partnership with the Atlanta High Museum of Art, showcasing the stories and creativity of refugees through painting, drawing, writing, and interactive design.

Highlighting refugee stories and asking one big question: What does home mean?

Learn About the Project Support This Project

What is Home Through Our Eyes?

"Home Through Our Eyes" is an art exhibit celebrating the resilience, belonging, and cultural identity of refugee communities. Through the creative work of refugee students and artists, this project gives refugee voices a platform and creates a meaningful space for connection and understanding.

This initiative showcases powerful artwork in painting, drawing, writing, and interactive design—each piece telling a unique story of displacement, hope, and the meaning of home. The exhibit celebrates the undestructible spirit of our refugee community and honors the courage it takes to build a new life while honoring one's heritage.

Our Mission

By partnering with the Atlanta High Museum of Art, TMF creates a platform where refugee artists can share their work and their stories. This project builds trust and visibility for refugee communities everywhere, demonstrating that home is not just a place—it's the warmth of family, the echo of laughter, the traditions we protect, and the memories we hold close.

What Defines Home?

"When we got to America, it was like a giant hand reached out and pulled us in. Connection truly created possibilities for us. We were treated as humans. And not just any humans, but humans with great potential to grow and give back - so we're going to do just that."

Featured Artwork & Artists

Discover the powerful stories and creative visions of our refugee and donor artists.

Refugee Student Artist

Deven Member-Meneh

"The Light Ponder"

A charcoal portrait of a volunteer student, focusing on loose, expressive line work and a free-hand technique.

Dimensions: 16 x 20 in

Student Artist

Li'Kwai Flemming

S.N.A.K.E. 3 Piece Set | 2025

This is a set of three art pieces that depict various figures in black history, but with a creative twist. These three characters are Gabriel Prosser, Memnon, and the Buffalo Shaman respectively. Each character is not only based in history, but they all have connections to the nature of war. The Buffalo Shaman is a Buffalo Soldier with spiritual powers, and Memnon was a significant figure in the Trojan War in the famous Iliad. As for Gabriel Prosser, he's famous for planning a slave rebellion in 1800, but failed due to weather conditions and two slaves ratting him out.

Dimensions: 16 x 20 in each | Medium: Mixed Media

Refugee Student Artist

Deven Member-Meneh

"The Junk Dresser"

A dresser filled with stories, including an ice skating boot, a mink, a feather-like scarf, a mannequin hand, an owl statue, a bird visible in three ways, and the dresser itself. This was the artist's first colored project, with the objective of having fun and making the items appear as dimensional as possible.

Dimensions: 16 x 20 in

Donor Artist

Devauntay Mysan

Home is Where the Heart Is | 2025

Home is not a roof or four walls; it is the steady rhythm of love, the embrace of family, the echo of laughter carried through generations. Even in the face of pain, destruction, and injustice, home endures. It lives in the memories we hold close, in the traditions we protect, in the stories that remind us of who we are. This work is a reflection of the indestructible spirit of unity. When the world outside feels uncertain, the heart becomes our refuge—a place where culture, hope, and belonging intertwine.

Dimensions: 60 x 24 in

Refugee Student Artist

Deven Member-Meneh

"A Provider at Work"

A charcoal depiction of a man in Eastern Asia working to provide food for his family, focusing on different perspectives of light, shadows, dimensions, and detail.

Dimensions: 16 x 20 in

Donor Artist

Charles Louis Middleton III

Hands of Time – Original Draft

The passing of knowledge and wisdom of one's journey to help build a bridge for the future generation family to open more doors of opportunities. She carries a wooden plate in hand symbolizes the foundation of family, home and devotion of sacred practices. As she wears the uniform of a maid who becomes the first leg in the race of time, she prepares to pass off the plate into the next generation to continue and add onto the legacy being created.

Dimensions: 72 x 75 in | Medium: Acrylic/Graphite/Charcoal on Canvas Roll

Donor Artist

Mark-Anthony Brown

Ancestor's Journey

Ancestor's Journey is a collection that brings together image and story in an effort to honor the resilience, sacrifice, and unyielding hope of those who came before us. It is a meditation on migration, memory, and the search for belonging. At its heart, this body of work pays tribute to the ancestors of refugees—men, women, and children who endured loss, displacement, and uncertainty, yet carried with them the determination to begin anew. The artworks in this collection, with their surreal landscapes, mythological figures, and luminous use of color, serve as visual echoes of the written narrative. They remind us that migration is never a simple departure. It is a journey layered with both grief and possibility.

Dimensions: Mixed | Medium: Acrylic, Spirits, Oil Pastel on Heavyweight Cotton Canvas

Donor Artist

James Williams III

Guidance is Internal (Same Same, But Different Series), 2025

With Guidance is Internal, I am engaging in a visual meditation on wayfinding, resilience, and movement through unfamiliar space. I was drawn to the metaphor of space travel, not as science fiction but as a parallel to the deeply human experience of navigating uncharted emotion-scapes and physical borders. Like a shuttle launched beyond the atmosphere, this work considers the body as a vessel in motion, one that holds memory, rhythm, and instinct as its navigational tools. I approach the canvas as both terrain and testimony. The composition is layered, intuitive, and deliberate, echoing the nonlinear ways we chart our paths in the absence of external structure.

Dimensions: 60 x 24 in | Medium: Acrylic, Spirits, Oil Pastel on Heavyweight Cotton Canvas

Exhibit Artwork Gallery

Explore the powerful artwork from our Home Through Our Eyes exhibit

Get Involved

Support This Project

Your support helps fund this vital project, ensuring that refugee voices are heard, refugee stories are celebrated, and refugee artists have a platform to share their creativity with the world.

SUPPORTER

Make a Donation

Help refugee families rebuild their lives with dignity, hope, and opportunity.

Donate Now