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This poem, written by Pedro Cervantes, displays the circumstances that migrant farm workers are put in daily. The poem explains in detail how Cervantes himself, obtained bumps from the grass the previous day while working on the farm. Yet, it was…

At the time of this gallery show, Juan Cavazos was a 26-year-old migrant farm worker. He was born in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico and later made money sketching portraits in the taverns of Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez. A CAMPS teacher named Annie…

This program accompanied a 1990 gallery exhibit centered on Mexican folk art traditions, as seen through seven individuals or families. Its curator explained that it was "divided into four major themes which illustrate central aspects of the workers'…

This program was created to accompany a 1991 gallery show featuring seven artists from the community of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake at Rapid Lake, Quebec. Since the late 1940s they had traveled seasonally to Western New York, where their skills…

This program accompanied a wide-ranging gallery show created by the Geneseo Migrant Center's Folk Arts Program in 1986. Its focus was that seasonal farm workers from the American South, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica "share common roots, a journey…

Poet Janine Pommy Vega facilitated dozens of writing workshops during her time with Creative Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS), whether located in farm labor camps or other sites where migrant workers could access. This session was held at the…

Composite image created as a directory page for nine story maps associated with the Farmworkers Atlas exhibit. It consists of eight mandala drawings associated with each story map, along with the Geneseo Migrant Center logo. In the background are…

Poet Janine Pommy Vega facilitated dozens of writing workshops during her time with Creative Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS), whether located in farm labor camps or other sites where migrant workers could access. This session was held at the…

Poet Janine Pommy Vega facilitated dozens of writing workshops during her time with Creative Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS), whether located in farm labor camps or other sites where migrant workers could access. This session was held at the…

Creative Artists Migrant Program Services founder, Sylvia Kelly is pictured here with two migrant workers. The photo has a ghostly double exposure to it, with there appearing to be layers to the people pictured.