
Great Waves of Immigration (2023) © Carmen Lizardo, NYCT 181 St. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design. Photo: Etienne Frossard.
Lizardo’s piece, made up of three mosaics, encapsulates the immigrant experience—leaving home, enduring the arduous journey, and eventually arriving in an unfamiliar city—with a particular focus on the Dominican population of Washington Heights. Dominican immigration in the twentieth century included an influx of Afro-Latino people into northern US cities, in parallel with the Great Migration. Learn more about this piece and view more photographs on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority website.