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SF Woman Sells Artwork Made in ICE Detention to Help Women She Met Inside

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Marcus Chen
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SF Woman Sells Artwork Made in ICE Detention to Help Women She Met Inside — San Francisco Arts news

Iryna Gorb, a Ukrainian immigrant who was violently arrested by ICE at SFO in July and held for seven weeks, is selling drawings she made in detention to raise money for women she met there who are still fighting to get out.Gorb recently displayed more than two dozen drawings at an art show on Nob Hill, in her first exhibition about her time at California City Immigration Processing Center, as the Chronicle reports. Titled Don t Forget About Us, the show depicts the women she met inside, along with details of daily life at the facility, including pay phones, food trays, tablet checkouts, and dingy showers. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Helena Mestriner-Cunningham (@hela.mest) Gorb was violently arrested by federal immigration agents at SFO in July, as SFist reported at the time. The Ukrainian immigrant was taken to California City, in the Mojave Desert, where other detainees helped her adjust to life inside. After seven weeks, she was reportedly

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