WHO WE ARE

The Sin Huellas Artist Collective is a multi-racial, multimedia artist and activist collective that works with former immigrant detainees and organizers to create alter-narratives of immigrant incarceration, deportation, and resistance by recentering the words and experiences of immigrant detainees in order to reconfigure the aesthetics of incarceration, surveillance, and control.

The phrase sin huellas, Spanish for "without a trace," is drawn from the act of erasing one’s fingerprints with acid, fire, or other surgical procedures in order to evade detection by ICE or other law enforcement agencies.

All the content in this website represents the views of the Sin Huellas Artist Collective and not necessarily the views of the project sponsors.

SPECIAL THANKS
No Están Solos, La Resistencia, The National Immigrant Youth Alliance, Lauren Ray, Rene Casallas, Dulce Guerrero, Adelina Casares, Hope Sanford, Ariana Ochoa Camacho, and Voice of Witness. Voice of Witness (VOW) is a non-profit dedicated to fostering a more empathy-based understanding of human rights crises through its oral history book series and education programming.

PROJECT SPONSORS
The Detention Nation website was supported by the Houston Arts Alliance and Artadia as well as the following University of Houston co-sponsors: The Katherine G. McGovern College of the Arts, Provost 50in5, The Underrepresented Women of Color Coalition, and Arte Público.

Detention Nation received support from The Station Museum For Contemporary Art, The Landmark Arts Gallery, and The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered by DiverseWorks, The Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.