Exhibits
"Photo Contest Winners" Human Rights and Social Justice Writing Contest 2007"
September 21 - November 7, 2008
"Dia de los Muertos"
October 20- November 2008
The Día de los Muertos exhibit recognizes the cultural significance of the Latin American tradition which celebrates the lives of those who have died. This ofrenda exhibit was built in honor of the more than 400 young women who have died or are missing from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Playing alongside the exhibit is a film titled “On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juárez” that explores the cultural, political, and economic issues surrounding the "femicide" that is taking place there.
The exhibit was designed by Hamilton students Pat Camacho and Jennifer Ciancio on behalf of ALAS-The Association of Latino and American Students-Miami Hamilton.
"Human Rights and Social Justice"
November 15 to December 2008
“Growing Season: The Life of A Migrant Community” Photo Exhibition Part of the Fifth Human Rights and Social Justice Program at Miami
This exhibition is part of a larger project that celebrates the Mexican-American and Mexican migrant families that live and work on the K.W. Zellers and Son family farm in Hartville, Ohio. Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community, by authors Gary Harwood and David Hassler, has received three book honors since its release in September of 2006. It was awarded a 2007 Carter G. Woodson Honor Award from the National Council for the Social Studies. The Ohioana Library Association selected Growing Season as one of seven winners of the Ohioana Book Award for 2007. The Great Lakes Booksellers Association also selected Growing Season as a finalist for the 2007 Great Lakes Book Award. Growing Season was also the winner of the 2005 James R. Gordon Ohio Understanding Award from the Ohio News Photographers Association and was awarded a 2005 Artist and Communities Grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
The project was featured in News Photographer, the monthly magazine of the National Press Photographers Association, Sun Magazine and Double Take/Points of Entry. Growing Season was also the selected book for the Stark County, Ohio, One Book One Community reading program through the Mayor’s Literacy Program for 2006.
For updates and additional information, see www.growingseason.net