As the U.S. remains gripped in the debate over the wall Donald Trump wants to build along the border, cross-border community groups, long-time residents, and their governments work to preserve and perpetuate a shared identity that transcends an existing physical and political barrier between them. Residents of the cities have played chess through slats in the fence. They’ve held art walks and binational residences and, with help from U.S. Border Patrol officers, hosted cross-border concerts. A few years ago they hosted a live art installation stretching across the desert between them as a way of symbolically stitching their countries together. Have a look here to see how border communities are using art as a tool to penetrate the wall that separates them.
How cities along the US-Mexico border use art to penetrate the border wall
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