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A small sample drawn from 500 photographs taken during a day-long workshop sponsored by the Creative Artists Migrant Program Services (CAMPS). Held at Sodus Central School, the activities included drawing, photography, papier-mâché, collage, and…

From a position above the ecliptic, we behold our home solar system the sun and even the planets represented as whirling energy. Alongside one planet and its moon is an inscription: "We Are Here." Beyond are fanciful galaxies, cloud nebula, and…

This is a halftone image created from an original pen-and-ink drawing no longer available. It was drawn by a Haitian immigrant farmworker living at the Hoehandle labor camp in Castile, NY. His work was featured in the 1986 gallery show African Past:…

For the 1985 Genesee Migrant Center exhibit African Past: Migrant Present, this drawing was titled "Ghost"; for the 1991 exhibit Passages, it was title "Voudo Man." Cantave Sean's stylized figure recalls the vèvè of Voudon, symbols that were to act…

Pastel drawing takes its name from a traditional Haitian house that is long and narrow, with its narrow end facing the road and lots of cross-ventilation through windows and doors. According to landscape architect Patti Stouter, its design is similar…

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…

Radical organization of space turns this lush orchard into a social cross-section of American agriculture. Four migrant workers are on ladders picking cherries, the one at left positioned to appear behind bars. A farmer or crew chief drives a tractor…

This program was created for a 1991 exhibition whose premise was quite formalist: that there are four types of passages "common to all migrant people": through historical time, through space, through seasons of nature, and through cycles of life.…

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…