The Migration Series

The Phillips presents a staged reading of five, 10-minute plays, commissioned and premiered in 2016 in response to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series. The staged reading, addressing themes of migration and immigration, celebrates Step Afrika!’s 30th anniversary and its performance of “The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence” at Arena Stage. Followed by a discussion with the cast.

Learn more about Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series

IMAGE: Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, Panel no. 45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North., 1940-41, Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in., The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1942; © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York