(re)Integration Map is an homage to the students who’ve welcomed me into their classrooms and communities in public schools in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Jersey City, NJ. Rather than emphasizing my customary use of textile techniques, I’ve incorporated versions of embroidery, crochet and soft sculpture I’ve taught in public schools. This assemblage also includes gifts from adult students (the embroidery hoop and glove); found objects (the floral embroidered lace); and excerpts of notes and artwork from elementary and middle school students, transferred into embroidery. Finally, I’ve added clusters of small, crocheted faces with expressive hairstyles and no facial features. These faces are both culturally specific and racially and ethnically ambiguous, representing the complexity of NYC and NJ neighborhoods and public schools, where communities and classrooms include Arab Americans, Latin Americans, African Americans, Caribbean Americans, Eastern Europeans, Southeast Asians. Some of these clusters are more visually homogeneous, referencing neighborhoods and schools that are more racially and ethnically homogeneous and segregated. Page 32 by Monte Olenick is an embroidered version, mimicking the original typeface, of page 32 of my father’s English Literature Master’s Thesis, published in 1958. The page I chose to recreate lists Albion W. Tourgée’s prescription for education reform. While the language in my father’s writing sounds dated, the concerns he addresses remain contemporary.