Get the Picture
Passion driven by creativity has resulted in two wonderful photo exhibits on display now at Carleton College and St. Olaf University in Northfield.
You’ve got to have creative passion to do what Carleton history Prof. Harry M. Williams and his seminar students did this year with Common Criminals or Portraits of Dissent? Mug shots from the Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-56. The exhibit shows 16 of about 90 who protested arrest in 1956 during a yearlong boycott of segregated intrastate bus transportation. This puts human faces on the struggle for civil rights in the South. A short narrative with some biography information accompanies each photo, some of which are blurry which adds to the dramatic impact.
Also related to social justice is Portraits of Home, Families in Search of Shelter in Greater Minnesota. The bottom line here is that many Minnesotans lack a warm bed, a solid roof and dependable utilities. The photos will tear your heart out in this exhibit, sponsored by Greater Minnesota Housing Fund features some of the state’s most talented photographers. For more
information, visit www.gmhg.com. This should spur more people to get involved in efforts to advance affordable housing for all of Minnesota.
-JCA Member David Zarkin
You’ve got to have creative passion to do what Carleton history Prof. Harry M. Williams and his seminar students did this year with Common Criminals or Portraits of Dissent? Mug shots from the Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-56. The exhibit shows 16 of about 90 who protested arrest in 1956 during a yearlong boycott of segregated intrastate bus transportation. This puts human faces on the struggle for civil rights in the South. A short narrative with some biography information accompanies each photo, some of which are blurry which adds to the dramatic impact.
Also related to social justice is Portraits of Home, Families in Search of Shelter in Greater Minnesota. The bottom line here is that many Minnesotans lack a warm bed, a solid roof and dependable utilities. The photos will tear your heart out in this exhibit, sponsored by Greater Minnesota Housing Fund features some of the state’s most talented photographers. For more
information, visit www.gmhg.com. This should spur more people to get involved in efforts to advance affordable housing for all of Minnesota.
-JCA Member David Zarkin
posted by Jewish Community Action Staff at 12:10 PM
2 Comments:
Dear David,
Thank you for featuring the Portraits of Home exhibit on your blog. You have done a great service to help stimulate dialogue on issues of social justice and human welfare. For your readers, please correct the featured hyperlink to www.gmhf.com.
Sincerely,
Andrew Schlack
Program Officer
Greater Minnesota Housing Fund
www.gmhf.com
Bloomington Jefferson HIgh School students struck a blow for humanity last night with their riveting performance of the Holocaust play, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly”. The one-act play is based on the poetry created in the Terezin Ghetto by Jewish children. More than 15,000 children passed through Terezin and about a hundred were still alive when it was liberated at the end of the war, according to the program notes.
The audience and young cast were engaged in a dialogue with two Holocaust survivors on stage after the play. Defiance and the will to survive to tell her story sustained Margot DeWilde, she said in response to a student’s question.
It’s a treat when Bloomington with little fanfare offers stimulating entertainment five minutes from my door. Last weekend it was the Jazz Society’s concert at the Bloomington Art Center with a quirky songstress, Christine Rothholt. Retirement has led me down many interesting avenues.
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