Currently focusing on protecting refugee families and ‘undocumented’ immigrants, Voces de la Frontera has collaborated with migrant, immigrant, refugee, and student communities for decades, organizing for social justice and human rights.

Voces de la Frontera began life in 1995 as the name of a bilingual newspaper in Austin, Texas, subtitled ‘a voce of the voiceless’, that championed immigrant rights and wider social justice issues. It was edited by Christine Neumann-Ortiz and allied itself to the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (multinational factories in Mexican border towns).

In 1998, both Christine and the newspaper relocated to Wisconsin, where they continued to turn the spotlight on injustice and steadily helped build the emerging immigrant rights movement. By 2000, Voces de la Frontera initiated a statewide campaign to fight for the legalization of undocumented workers in the United States.

These organizing efforts also called attention to the need for a workers’ center that could respond to the immediate problems that confronted low-wage and immigrant workers.

Voces de la Frontera’s Milwaukee Workers’ Center opened its doors in 2001 and was initially run by volunteers. In 2004, we grew significantly with the opening of an additional office in Racine and the formation of a student chapter, Students United for Immigrant Rights (SUFRIR).

Since that time “Voces” has been a leader in organizing for social justice and human rights for migrants, immigrants, Latinx, and student communities across the Midwest and the USA. Voces has been on the front line of the struggle to keep infant and child refugees and migrants together with their parents and out of prison camps and cages. The situation is dire and this pre-publication portfolio, which consists of both art and protest materials made by Voces de la Frontera’s art build affinity group Voces de las Artistas, is meant to raise immediate funds towards this urgent campaign.

The sets of Voces de la Frontera contain the same screen-printed fabric picket signs used in marches that expedited both Sheriff David Clarke’s and Paul Ryan’s exists.

THE PORTFOLIO

Prints—
1. Nicolas Lampert, “Voces de la Frontera pennant”, 7” x 21”, Screenprint on felt, January 2018.
2. Nicolas Lampert, “Here to Stay pennant”, 7” x 21”, Screenprint on felt, January 2018.
3. Pete Railand, “Keep Families Together No 287g”, 12.5” x 19”, Screenprint on paper, January 2018.
4. Josiah Werning, “Have You Seen My Dad? Stop the Raids”, 20” x 30”, Screenprint on paper, 2014
5. John Fleissner, “Organize Immigrants, Workers, Students”, 14” x 23”, Linoleum print on paper, 2016.
6. Pete Railand, “No Trabajo, No Escuela, No Consumo, No 287g”, 11” x 28”, Screenprint on paper, 2017
7. Nicolas Lampert, “Keep Families Together (Hands)”, 12” x 16”, Screenprint on paper, 2018.

Banners on Muslin—
1. Pete Railand, “Keep Families Together (Mother and Child)”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, 2018.
2. Ceci Tejeda, “Keep Families Together (Badger)”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, 2017.
3. Favianna Rodriguez, “Todxs Somos Wisconsin”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, 2017
4. Favianna Rodriguez, “We Are All Wisconsin”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, 2017
5. Susan Simensky Bietila, “No Police – ICE Collaboration”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, 2018.
6. Pete Railand, “Sanctuary Cities Now”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, 2017
7. Nicolas Lampert, “You Can’t Deport a Movement”, 20” x 26”, Screenprint on paper, 2018.
8. Claudio Martinez, “They Tried to Bury Us. They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds.”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants 2018.
9. Nicolas Lampert, “Solidarity”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants 2018.
10. Paul Kjelland, “Keep Families Together”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants 2018.
11. Nicolas Lampert, “Voces de la Frontera: Immigrants, Students, Workers”, 23”x40”, Screenprint on muslin, 2017.
12. Nicolas Lampert, “Migration is Beautiful”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on painted muslin, May Day 2017.
13. Jeanette Arellano, “Todxs Somos Wisconsin”, 23” x 40”, Screenprint on muslin, 2018.

Ephemera—
1. Ceci Tejada, “Butterfly”, 7” x 7”, Screenprint on paper with wooden stick, Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants (Waukesha, WI), May 1, 2018.
2. Pete Railand, “Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants poster”, 12” x 18”, Offset poster, Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants 2018 (Waukesha, WI) May 1, 2018.
3. Joe Brusky, “Voces de la Frontera Annual Assembly poster”, 11” x “17, Digital print on paper, 2017
4. Claudio Martinez, “Day Without Latinxs, Immigrants, & Refugees poster”, 11” x 17”, Offset print, Day Without Latinxs & Immigrants 2017 (Milwaukee, WI) May 1, 2017.

Joe Brusky Photos—
1 “Painting 100-Yard Banner”, Community Art Build (Milwaukee, WI 1/20/2018)
2 “Shutting Down Milwaukee ICE Office”, (Milwaukee, WI – 5/29/2014) 3 “Arrested Defending Dreamers”, Time’s Up! Paul Ryan – Clean Dream Act Now! (Racine, WI – 3/5/2018)
4 “Day Without Latinx Rally at Wisconsin Capitol” Día sin Latinos e Inmigrantes / Day Without Latinos and Immigrants, (Madison, WI – 2/18/2016)
5 “Beautiful Endeavor” Día sin Latinos e Inmigrantes / Day without Latinx and Immigrants (Milwaukee, WI – 2/18/2016)
6 “Migration is Beautiful” Wisconsin, May Day March for Immigrant and Worker Rights / Marcha Estatal del 1ro de Mayo para los Derechos de lxs Trabajadorxs e Inmigrantxs (Milwaukee, WI – 5/1/2016)
7 “We Are a Sanctuary District”, Rally & Testify in Support of MPS Sanctuary District Resolution (Milwaukee, WI – April 30, 2017)
8 “Not One More!” Lockdown In front of ICE Office (Milwaukee, WI – 6/19/2014)
9 “Students Lead the Way”, Rally & Testify in Support of MPS Sanctuary District Resolution (Milwaukee, WI – 9/16/17)
10 “Day Without Latinx and Immigrants”, Día sin Latinos e Inmigrantes / Day without Latinx and Immigrants (Madison, WI – 2/18/16)
11 “Have You Seen My Dad?” ¡Ya Basta! Stop the Raids! (Milwaukee, WI – 5/29/2014)
12 “Fist Up for Justice”, Capitol Press Conference and Delegations to Madison Electeds (Madison, WI – 4/26/2017)
13 “Marching for Immigrants and Refugees”, May Day / 1 de Mayo 2015 (Milwaukee, WI – 5/1/2015).
14 “Resign Sheriff Clarke!” Art Build for May Day / Hacer arte para el 1ro de mayo (Milwaukee, WI – 2/12/2017)
15 “Jesus Was an Undocumented Immigrant” Paul Ryan see you in mass! / ¡Paul Ryan nos vemos en misa! (Janesville, WI – 8/20/2017)
16 “Packed City Hall to Keep Families Together” Rally: Mayor Barrett – Stop MPD from Acting like ICE! (Milwaukee, WI – 7/15/17)
17 “Victoria and Dad with Banner”, Community Art Build (Milwaukee, WI – 1/21/18)
18 “Milwaukee Says NO to Deportation” Day without Latinxs, Immigrants & Refugees (Milwaukee, WI – 2/13/17)
19 “SB287/AB190 Public Hearing”, Senate Hearing on AB190 / SB275 / Audiencia sobre AB190 / SB275 (Madison, WI – 10/12/2017)
20 “Milwaukee Says NO to Sheriff Clarke & 287g” May 1st Day without Latinxs, Immigrants & Refugees (Milwaukee, WI – 5/1/2017)
21 “Milwaukee Says NO to Deportation”, Sheriff Schmidt: Keep Immigrant Families Together, No 287g! (Milwaukee, WI – 11/14/2017)
22 “The Day the Anti-Sanctuary Bill was Defeated” ¡URGENTE: Acompáñanos al Capitolio para Resistir AB 450 Tipo Arizona! / URGENT! All Out to the Capitol to Resist Arizona-type AB 450! (Madison, WI – 2/9/2016)
23 “Stop the Raids!” Bringing Love & Light for Wisconsin’s Immigrant Community (Madison, WI – 3/4/2017)
24 “Unfurling Parachute Over Walker’s Office” Capitol Press Conference and Delegations to Madison Electeds (Madison, WI – 4/26/2017)
25 “Solidarity Among Milwaukee Movements” Community Art Build (Milwaukee, WI – 1/21/2018)
26 “Stop Clarke!” Día sin Latinos, Inmigrantes y Refugiados / Strike Against Clarke (Milwaukee, WI – 2/13/2017)
27 “YES Students Surround Paul Ryan’s Office” Time’s Up! Paul Ryan – Clean Dream Act Now! (Racine, WI – 3/5/2018)
28 “YES Students March to Paul Ryan’s” Time’s Up! Paul Ryan – Clean Dream Act Now! (Racine, WI – 3/5/2018)
29 “Through the Streets of Waukesha”, May 1st Day without Latinxs & Immigrants: No 287g in Wisconsin! (Waukesha, WI – 5/1/2018)

Flashdrive—
1. 12 Large banner designs
2. High and low-resolution catalog PDFs
3. Exhibition Labels
4. 30 digital files of Joe Brusky’s photos
5. PDFs of all the text from the catalog
6. 17 jpgs of VDLF fliers (not all included in the box set)
7. VDLF box set cover sticker PDF
8. 23 video files about VDLF