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These Voices, These Faces was a portion of the gallery assembled for African Past: Migrant Present. Near the beginning of the exhibition it was intended as a wall display to place the viewer of the gallery squarely in the shoes of the creators of the…

Green Empire Farms is a massive, 64-acre Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) operation in Oneida, NY. It is owned by the Mastronardi Produce company, a Canadian firm that also purchased three Intergrow Greenhouse locations in 2023. This location…

Layout for 1986 exhibit in SUNY Geneseo's Bertha Lederer Gallery is being designed with a clear sense of a narrative enacted walking through the show. After an introduction to the show, "These Voices, These Faces" presents twelve poems by African…

The Geneseo Migrant Center has a collection of photographs the were created by at least three members of the family; there also are a handful of collages using those images. This one has an enigmatic annotation perhaps referencing the child's name…

Anthropologist Jayne Howell spoke with two brothers and their cousin concerning apparently simple sculptures created with popsicle sticks. Their answers are much more involved. Diodoro explains how, "For my part, I made the figures with the objective…

This image incorporates a lot of life within an oddly cropped picture of the Garcia Family. This image gives a look inside of the living conditions of migrant farmworkers, but not through the eyes of someone who knows them as a worker, instead the…

This image incorporates a lot of life within an oddly cropped picture of the Garcia Family. This image gives a look inside of the living conditions of migrant farmworkers, but not through the eyes of someone who knows them as a worker, instead the…

This mandala drawing, while simple and unfinished, includes a lot of depth and nuance to it. Created by--or perhaps honoring--Johana, this mandala includes a heart at the center with vibrant flowers growing out of it. In the center of the heart is…

This poem showcases how much time migrant farmworkers spend apart from their families. Its circumstances were explained in an issue Real Talk, published by the Geneseo Migrant Center:"In honor of Mother's Day, Sunday May 14th, we would like to share…

An oddly shaped piece of wood that was once connected to a well-carved wooden moose head. It is varnished and stained pine with a rusty nail sticking out of it. This piece of wood led to the discovery of its creator Jacob Wawatie (1956-2016), who was…