# Event Details

- **Event Name**: What We Carry: Design, Objects, Memory and Belonging between Mexico and Chicago
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 22 Aug, 2026 at 02:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Migration is often told through economics or politics, but it is also a story of objects, traditions, and the everyday practices that people carry with them. This conversation explores how Mexican migrants in Chicago preserved and transformed their cultural heritage through material culture, creating spaces of belonging far from home.

Rather than focusing solely on family heirlooms, the discussion will examine the broader role of objects, crafts, domestic rituals, and community institutions in sustaining cultural identity. By placing the experiences of Mexican migrants alongside the project of modernization unfolding in Mexico during the twentieth century, the panel asks how migration reshaped material culture on both sides of the border. 

Join Edith Farnsworth House and the Chicago History Museum in highlighting their two exhibitions, Fertile Ground and Aqui en Chicago, with this incredible conversation between Ana Elena Mallet, Joel Aguliar, and Jojo Galván, moderated by Iker Gil of Mas Context. A reception with refreshments will follow in the CHM café.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/what-we-carry-design-objects-memory-and-belonging-between-mexico-and-chicago/200030582374336
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 24

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Chicago History Museum
- **lat**: 41.91194852219
- **long**: -87.631672589844
- **full address**: Chicago History Museum, 1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614-6038, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is What We Carry: Design, Objects, Memory and Belonging between Mexico and Chicago being held?
  - **A:** What We Carry: Design, Objects, Memory and Belonging between Mexico and Chicago takes place on Sat, 22 Aug, 2026 at 02:30 pm to Sat, 22 Aug, 2026 at 02:30 pm at Chicago History Museum, 1601 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614-6038, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing What We Carry: Design, Objects, Memory and Belonging between Mexico and Chicago?
  - **A:** What We Carry: Design, Objects, Memory and Belonging between Mexico and Chicago is organized by Edith Farnsworth House.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** What We Carry: Design, Objects, Memory and Belonging between Mexico and Chicago is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Chicago, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If What We Carry: Design, Objects, Memory and Belonging between Mexico and Chicago sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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