Migrations, Part I

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From "Activism: Artists Speaking Their Mind"

Banner Art (detail): Walter Crump, "Destroyed Cities"

 

Nancy Marks, "Homeless"
Nancy Marks, "Homeless"
Exhibition Dates:
July 17-August 31, 2015
Location:
Resnikoff Gallery, Arts & Media Center
Roxbury Community College
1234 Columbus Avenue
Roxbury Crossing, MA
Curators:
Gloretta Baynes, Gail Jerauld Bos and Ruth Rosner

Exhibition Statement

MIGRATIONS

The movement of life forms away from the known for food or fortune, out of fear or force

The great migrations of humans out of Africa,
of birds over oceans

The dispersal of insects and seeds from around the world

The sorrowful forced migrations caused by war, famine, devastation of the environment and human greed

This is the theme of this exhibit: that migration is a natural force for all forms of life—that from the beginning the human species has moved—that we can trace our roots to those ancestors who left Africa.

We are all migrants with descendants who felt the loss of family, home and language, experienced a dangerous voyage, faced an unwelcoming crowd.

Image Gallery

Gloretta Baynes, “I Feel I Can Fly”
Ruth Rosner, “Mothers of Lost Children”
L’Merchie Frazier, “Forced Migrations”
Walter Clark, “Up N Down, To and Fro”
Susan Thompson, “Marcus Garvey”
Susan Hardy Brown, “Seeds on the Wing, Queen Anne’s Lace”
Sally B. Moore, “On the Horizon”
Ruth Segaloff, In the Beginning, Two Become One”
Walter Crump, “Destroyed Cities”
Nancy Marks, “Homeless”
Myrna Balk, “Too Much Red Tape”
Mary Harvey, “Bridge”
Marshall Hughes, Performing Artist
Khalid Kodi, “Blue Tales” Selections
Jeff Chandler, “Revisioning Africa”
High School Juniors, Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers, with Radiant Jasmine, Teaching Artist
Hakim Raquib, “Red Sea [Egypt Series]”
Kerri Schmidt, “Pyramids”
Gloretta Baynes, “Walk With The Ancestors”
Gail Bos, “Reaching the Shore”
Ernest Tarhaar, “Untitled”
Carrie Fenn & Gail Jerauld Bos, “Invasive Species”
Bryan McFarlane, “The Bonding”
Carol Iskols Daynard, “Dreaming”
Mary McCusker (from left), “Labrynth, Sticks)”