In a world that feels like it’s getting harsher, with people’s humanity under attack everywhere, how do we continue hoping, aspiring, and creating work?
Socially engaged artist Simeen Anjum explores this question through conversation with other artists, organizers, educators and thinkers. Sharing how they find ways to exist in the world while holding firmly to their values, this book documents how their work, whether in schools, universities, museums, neighborhoods, or social circles, is in conversation with larger systems of power and control while also imagining and offering something new.

Where Do We Go From Here? by Simeen Anjum

A collection of conversations between Simeen Anjum and Lou Blumberg, an artist and educator with the belief that better worlds are possible; Kristan Kennedy, educator and artistic director at Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts; Khytul Abyad, a visual artist from Indian Occupied Kashmir navigating the bureaucracies of immigration; Ali Cat, a Portland based printmaker who makes art to share; Daniel Tucker, artist and community arts oral historian based in Philadelphia; Tamia Alston Ward, museum educator at the Philadelphia Art Museum exploring what museums can offer to classrooms in amidst censorships; Simmi Malhotra, a fellow New Delhi native based in Portland, Oregon; Sophie von Rohr, a substitute teacher advocating for better working conditions at a Portland Public School; and Mari Schay, music educator at Portland State University.

The digital version will be available online free of cost. Please consider supporting the artist by purchasing a physical copy of the book (Venmo @Simeen-Anjum $25)