{"id":504,"date":"2017-04-25T20:21:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T00:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/photomigration17\/?page_id=504"},"modified":"2017-05-02T13:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:14:04","slug":"2015-miller-library","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/photomigration\/seminar\/exhibitions\/2015-miller-library\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Miller Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Photography and Migration Project’s first exhibition opened to the public at\u00a0Miller Library, Colby College\u00a0on\u00a0April 24, 2015. Organized in conjunction with the\u00a0Center for the Arts and Humanities’ 2014-2015 theme of “migrations,” the\u00a0exhibition\u00a0incorporated photographic and other\u00a0materials from Colby’s Special Collections, the Waterville Historical Society, and the collections of local families. Cabinet displays featured\u00a0photographs of and by Franco-Americans in Maine, representations of African Americans at Colby and the migration of racial stereotypes, the emotional connections to home that an American poet expressed through her writing and photographs, the image of success embodied by an extraordinary Irish-American immigrant, and the cross-cultural model of education pictured by a dedicated teacher in the US and Africa. You can read more about the\u00a0exhibition’s engagement with\u00a0the Waterville\u00a0community in the\u00a0Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The following Colby students curated the cabinet displays:\u00a0Angelica Crites \u201816, Laurel Edington \u201815, Lindsay Freter \u201815, Cara Goldfarb \u201817, Sara Heilbronner \u201817, Katherine Mackey \u201816, Isabel Mackinnon \u201815, Lydia Nicholson \u201816, Jillian Palladino \u201816, Anya Peck \u201815, Barrie Tovar \u201815. They\u00a0collaborated with Tanya Sheehan (Associate Professor, Art Department), Erin Rhodes (Archives Education Librarian, Special Collections), and Maggie Libby (Visual Resources Curator, Art Department and Special Collections).<\/p>\n

Special thanks to John and Bunnie Picher of Vassalboro, Maine for lending photographs and other documents from the Picher and Poulain-LaVerdiere families, and to Sarah Sugden for permission\u00a0to reproduce photographs from the collection of the Waterville Historical Society.<\/p>\n\n

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