Deportees: A Tribute in the Emerson Brook Forest

DEPORTEES: A TRIBUTE at the Sustainability Project's Emerson Brook Forest Center The first exhibit to herald the opening of the beautiful new event space and gallery at 57 Emerson Brook Drive, Gilsum, NH will be "Deportees: A Tribute", featuring works on paper by Erika Radich, NH Printmaker. The opening reception takes place on September 19th, from 4-6pm, and the exhibit runs through October 31st. Refreshments will be served. There is a suggested donation of $18, with no one turned away for lack of funds. We hope for a lively turnout with ample opportunity to connect with Erika and to discuss her work. The Sustainability Project's newly completed event space and gallery, the Emerson Brook Forest Center, provides a permanent home for the vast collection of Clay Heads by sculptor, Susan O'Hara (1935-2015). There are hundreds of these creations, in a variety of styles and gestures, all evocative and emotionally compelling. Additionally, space is reserved in the new structure, to house transitory exhibits by regional artists. "Deportees: A Tribute", is the first of these. The exhibit features a suite of 28 monotype collages addressing issues of social injustice, equality, and human dignity. As Radich explains, "...the exhibit may become personal to each viewer. In 1948 there was a plane crash in Los Gatos Canyon, California. Twenty eight Mexican farmworkers died as they were being deported to Mexico. The migrant workers were buried in a mass grave, with only a single plaque, referring to them as 'Mexican Nationals'. The New York Times reported the accident as the death of 28 'nameless' deportees. Fundamental to who we are, what our identity is, is our name. In this exhibit we remember who they were and, in the process, who we are.” Subsequent to the September 19th opening, the exhibit is open by appointment through October 31st. Please contact Valerie Piedmont at 603-209-7272 for details, if you'd like to docent this or future exhibits, or if you are interested in hanging an exhibit of your own.