Benny Andrews: The Migrant Series

Benny Andrews: The Migrant Series
Produced by Staniski Media, 2003

Andrews discusses The Migrant Series, which traces three historic American migrations: The Great Migration, the Dust Bowl migration, and the forced migration of Native Americans, known as the Trail of Tears. Andrews created the series between 2003 and 2006. This film was produced by documentary filmmaker Stanley Staniski. Recorded in Andrews’s Brooklyn Studio in 2003, it was featured in the 2026 exhibition Benny Andrews: Migrants at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York.