{"id":7201,"date":"2024-08-27T19:24:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2024-11-13T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T19:31:45","slug":"gallery-opening-book-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/2024\/08\/gallery-opening-book-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallery Opening & Book Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lisa Elmaleh: Tierra Prometida
\n<\/i>Jessica Wolff: The New Mestiza<\/i><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Two Photographers Depict Stories of Migration and Immigration<\/em><\/h3>\n

On view Sept 12\u2013Oct 13, 2024<\/h3>\n

Opening Reception<\/strong>:
\nThurs, Sept 12, 2024, 6:00\u20138:00 pm<\/h3>\n


\nTHE GALLERY<\/strong>\u00a0at the Visual & Performing Arts Center
\nWestern Connecticut State University
\n<\/strong>Westside Campus, 43 Lake Ave Extension, Danbury, CT 06811
\nGallery Hours:\u00a0<\/strong>Tues\u2013Fri, 12\u20134, Sat\u2013Sun, 1\u20134<\/p>\n

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Lisa Elmaleh is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Her photographic series,\u00a0Tierra\u00a0Prometida,\u00a0<\/i>captures the multifaceted aspects of migration at the border between the United States and Mexico. Created with a 1930s-era large format camera, her work encompasses the people, landscape, migratory routes, and humanitarian efforts there. While conveying both empathy and urgency, the series challenges the myth of the American Dream from the perspective of the borderland environs, the individuals seeking asylum in the United States, and the volunteers and groups involved in providing essential assistance to migrants.<\/p>\n

Jessica Wolff's photographs delve into the experience of being Mexican-American and navigating the dynamics of two cultures that often clash or contradict each other. Embracing the term \"mestizos\" (of mixed race), Jessica acknowledges her and her subjects' Indigenous and Spanish ancestry. Using symbols and icons from both Mexican and American history, she creates a fusion that represents a new culture, new myths, new icons, and new images, where there is no longer a strict division between Mexican and American identities, but rather the emergence of a new mestiza culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Book Discussion Group<\/span>
\n<\/span>The Other Side\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong>by Juan Pablo Villalobos<\/span><\/h2>\n

WCSU Library \/ The Gallery at VPAC<\/h3>\n

Sign up at Haas and Young libraries or in The Gallery
\nBooks are available at Haas and Young libraries.<\/h4>\n

Supplemental readings:\u00a0Solito<\/em>\u00a0by Javier Zamora
\nBorderlands\/La Frontera<\/em>:\u00a0The New Mestiza<\/em>\u00a0by Gloria Anzaldua<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Art Exhibit Viewing \/ Book Discussion<\/strong>
\nMonday, Oct 7, 2024, 6:00 p.m. \u20137:15 pm<\/strong><\/h3>\n

View the exhibit from 6:00 to 6:20, then discuss the book(s).
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