The Collection:
A Living Archive of Forced Migration

A Hybrid
and Evolving Model

Our permanent collection grows in two complementary ways:

• Acquisitions that remain part of our archive for the long term—selected for artistic merit, provenance clarity, and alignment with our mission.

• Rotating loans from local collectors, artists, and cultural institutions in each host city—ensuring every exhibit is locally relevant and nationally connected.
  
  

This hybrid approach combines curatorial excellence with community collaboration, and it allows us to activate fresh, place-based narratives wherever the collection travels.

What We Own, What We Share

• Museum-quality, one-of-a-kind works selected for artistic significance and mission fit.

• Fully documented, insured, and preserved under professional care.

• A growing core collection of 15–20 cornerstone pieces by established refugee and migrant artists.

• Short- and long-term loans generously provided by collectors, artists, and partner museums.

• Add local perspectives and cultural relevance to each exhibition.

• All works displayed with full credit and shown under written loan agreements.

Owned Works

Loaned Works

Donate now at Fractured Atlas to help conserve, insure, and exhibit the collection.

Would you like
to support
The Collection?

Your support keeps this living archive growing—preserving culture, amplifying refugee voices, and expanding empathy.

Ways to contribute:

• Sponsor the acquisition of a new work

• Lend a piece for a specific city exhibition

• Donate works for permanent inclusion in our archive

• Fund insurance, conservation, or artist commissions

Curatorial Focus (U.S. Context)

We organize the collection around themes that deepen understanding of migration in the United States:

• Memory & Testimony: personal archives, maps, letters, and objects of passage

• Borders & Belonging: movement, identity, and the right to have rights

• Labor & Dignity: work, housing, and rebuilding everyday life

• Healing & Community: care, solidarity, and collective rituals

• Future Imaginings: XR/film/installation that re-maps hope and home

For Museums & Universities

Host a traveling exhibition or co-develop a campus program. Partners receive:

• Curatorial support, exhibition design, and wall texts

• Education kits, faculty workshops, and student engagement

• Press kit and brand assets

• Impact reporting (attendance, learning outcomes, audience feedback)

For Artists & Collectors

We welcome loans and donations of contemporary works (2D/3D, media, XR) rooted in refugee and migrant experience. We review artworks for relevance, condition, provenance, and care needs. Professional transport, insurance, and conservation standards apply.