This report includes two essays. The Best of Everything: A Collaborative Approach to Refugee and Immigrant Traditional Arts describes a number of programs Laura Marcus designed and managed as the founding coordinator of the Art for New Immigrants Program at the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) in Portland, Oregon. In Global Currents in Work with Immigrant Artists, William Westerman discusses the role of economics, memory and healing, and human rights in the work of immigrant and refugee artists.(KHH)
