In 2025, Narratio celebrated its sixth annual Narratio Fellowship by welcoming a new cohort of Fellows to its year-long program. This U.S.-based initiative continued its mission of building cohorts of resettled refugee youth to shape and influence global conversations around displacement and cultural production.

The 2025 program was led by artists-in-residence Ameen Mokdad (music) and Rayan Mohamed ’20 (film). Fellows selected objects from The Met’s Ancient West Asian Art Department and created poetic pieces reflecting on the memories and experiences those objects evoked.

Since its founding, the Narratio Fellowship has reached over 2.5 million individuals across 17+ countries through exhibits, publications, and performances at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie’s, the United Nations, and Harvard University.

Performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Partner Workshops: The MET

Metropolitan Museum staff across the Education, Object Conservation, and Ancient Near East departments held sessions with the Narratio Fellows centered on storytelling and caretaking around objects.

Staff include Sarah Graff and Kim Benzel (Ancient Near East), Anne Grady (Object Conservation), Darcy-Tell Morales (Education) Anna Serotta (Object Conservation), Emily Blumenthal (Education), and J-F Laperouse (Object Conservation).