Melting Ice

Public Exhibition

Sponsored by United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ)

Melting ICE is a traveling public exhibit that aims to humanize the experiences of people who have been detained at the Northwest ICE Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington. The exhibit highlights the organizing efforts of La Resistencia, a grassroots movement led by undocumented immigrants and people of color fighting to change the detention and immigration system.

Melting ICE invites the public to consider the human implications of mass deportation and they reliance on private prisons to implement these policies. the exhibit encompasses a collection of panels containing the personal testimonies of detainees and a representational solitary confinement cell structure. The exhibit is available in Spanish and English.

for more information contact Bob Bussel, mrbobbussel@gmail.com