BRATTLEBORO-Larger-than-life images on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) reflect refugees’ perspectives on migration, home, and what it means to be an American. The BMAC will host a celebration of the “Migration/Home” exhibit Sunday, Sept. 27, at 1 p.m. at the museum, 10 Vernon St.
Created in response to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, “Migration/Home” consists of seven images, each one eight feet tall, in the BMAC’s outward-facing window bays. The artists are five members of Brattleboro’s resettled refugee community: Marwa Safa Azimi, Butunga Bibimba, Abdullah Elhan, Sean Kiziltan, and Zuhra Nadem.
Brattleboro artist Jonathan Gitelson organized the exhibit. The group met frequently for about a year, Gitelson explained in a news release. “Together, we developed a body of work that would be cohesive while representing a broader slice of what it means to be American today,” he said.
The artists drew on “a range of cultural and artistic traditions,” the news release said, citing influences from Persian miniature painting to Pashto poetry to Congolese embroidery.
“Each image functions as an individual work while contributing to a larger exploration of what it means to leave one home, build another, and carry memory, culture, language, and identity across borders,” the news release said.
“Migration/Home” will remain on view through Sunday, Nov. 1. For more information, visit brattleboromuseum.org.
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