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Tribute | Homenaje 》
Prof. Cynthia Stone, emerita
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Ficción | Fiction
Matthew Junco, ’26
Eileen Ledesma, ’26
Alana Morel, ’26
Katie Nossa, ’26
Kate Santini, ’26
Poesías
Mia Arias, ’26
Gisselle Baez Almonte, ’28
Pablo Granados, ’27
Ashley Jenkins, ’27
Lauren Kim, ’28
Joe Sabatini, ’26
Ismael Sánchez Vargas, ’27
Shakira Suazo Valdez, ’27
Maggie Whelan, ’28
Microcuentos | Microfiction
Maggie DeWald, ’28
Isabella Flores, ’26
Morgan Gorney, ’28
Edgar Juárez Sánchez, ’28
Valentina Pérez Rivera, ’28
Lauren Poltorak, ’26
Yuliana Sánchez Reyes, ’27
Sandy Martínez, ’27
Bridget Sullivan, ’28
Imágenes | Images
Anika Heywood, ’26
Sophie Sundaram, ’26 (Fenwick Scholar)
Madeline “Tessa” Zafon-Whalen, ’26
Artist Interview: Zafon-Whelan
Teatro | Theater
Éowyn Bailey, ’26 (Fenwick Scholar)
Escenas:
Lily Deforge, ’28
Lila Pasquarello, ’28
Keyla Ulloa, ’28
Reflections
Jazmin López, ’28
Despedidas:
Paloma Apesteguía (Argentina)
Laura Villegas Manrique (Spain)
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Fósforo reignites |
Fósforo vuelve a encenderse
Tribute | Homenaje 》
Prof. Cynthia Stone, emerita
Cover Image 》
Ficción | Fiction
Matthew Junco, ’26
Eileen Ledesma, ’26
Alana Morel, ’26
Katie Nossa, ’26
Kate Santini, ’26
Poesías
Mia Arias, ’26
Gisselle Baez Almonte, ’28
Pablo Granados, ’27
Ashley Jenkins, ’27
Lauren Kim, ’28
Joe Sabatini, ’26
Ismael Sánchez Vargas, ’27
Shakira Suazo Valdez, ’27
Maggie Whelan, ’28
Microcuentos | Microfiction
Maggie DeWald, ’28
Isabella Flores, ’26
Morgan Gorney, ’28
Edgar Juárez Sánchez, ’28
Valentina Pérez Rivera, ’28
Lauren Poltorak, ’26
Yuliana Sánchez Reyes, ’27
Sandy Martínez, ’27
Bridget Sullivan, ’28
Imágenes | Images
Anika Heywood, ’26
Sophie Sundaram, ’26 (Fenwick Scholar)
Madeline “Tessa” Zafon-Whalen, ’26
Artist Interview: Zafon-Whelan
Teatro | Theater
Éowyn Bailey, ’26 (Fenwick Scholar)
Escenas:
Lily Deforge, ’28
Lila Pasquarello, ’28
Keyla Ulloa, ’28
Reflections
Jazmin López, ’28
Despedidas:
Paloma Apesteguía (Argentina)
Laura Villegas Manrique (Spain)
Agradecimientos | Thanks
Equipo editorial
About us | Sobre nosotros
Disclaimer and fair use statement
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Landscapes of the Home and Maps of the Heart
Fenwick Scholar thesis (photographic collage)
Worcester Hospitality, 2026
Photographic collage
Photographic collage
Sophie Sundaram’s year-long capstone, subtitled Using Art to Understand the Meaning of Home for First and Second Generation Immigrants in Worcester, Massachusetts, explores how individuals with histories of migration understand and experience “home,” and how those understandings can be translated into visual form through portraiture.
Grounded in Worcester, a city shaped by multiple waves of migration and cultural diversity, the project investigates how senses of home are formed when they are distributed across places, memories, cultures, and histories rather than rooted in a single location. The methodology evolved flexibly in response to participants’ lives, with conversations taking place in person, over Zoom, and through written exchange.
Developed through conversations with Worcester community members, the project combines studio practice with methodological approaches drawn from sociological and anthropological fieldwork, including participant interviews, relational research practices, and community-based engagement.
Rather than functioning as singular representations, the works hold together multiple temporalities, landscapes, and emotional associations simultaneously. Across the project, recurring themes emerge surrounding family, food, memory, and landscape, revealing home as something carried through relationships, routine, and remembrance.
The completed works were publicly exhibited at the Jean McDonough Arts Center in Worcester (JMAC) from April 1–12, 2026. Ultimately, Landscapes of Home and Maps of the Heart explores the emotional geographies of migration, proposing home as an evolving emotional landscape continually constructed through memory, connection, and lived experience.
The works included here highlight the rich diversity of self-identification and family ties, presenting expressions that resist simple racial or ethnic categories while proudly shaping the communities to which they belong.
The complete project is stored in the College Archives and is available to the Holy Cross community on Crossworks.
Pictures from the Exhibition
