UIMA is pleased to welcome acclaimed author and journalist Howard Reich as guest speaker for Art, Memory, and the Immigrant Experience.

Drawing on his own family history and a career devoted to culture, memory, and identity, Reich will reflect on what we carry with us when we leave one home and begin again in another.

His reflections will unfold alongside the work of Ukrainian American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky, whose own journey of displacement and migration shaped an artistic language rooted in memory, resilience, and belonging.

Together, Reich’s words and Hnizdovsky’s art invite us to consider how the immigrant experience lives on—in memory, in creativity, and in the enduring idea of home.