{"id":3858,"date":"2007-08-10T08:59:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:36:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:36:16","slug":"museum-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/08\/10\/museum-la\/","title":{"rendered":"With college's support, Museum L-A opens Portraits and Voices exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Portraits<\/a><\/p>\n

Museum L-A, an institution presenting the story of work and community in Lewiston-Auburn, opens the exhibition Portraits and Voices: Workers of Seven Mills<\/em> at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, in the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Mill Complex, 35 Canal St. Supported by a ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Harward Center Grant for Publicly Engaged Academic Projects, the museum’s first temporary major exhibit remains open through Feb. 28, 2008. The museum’s first-floor gallery is open to the public 10 a.m. through 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday.<\/p>\n

Called “extraordinary” by Harward Center<\/a> director David Scobey,\u00a0 the exhibition consists of 45 photographic portraits of retired millworkers taken by Mark Silber, a cultural anthropologist, photographer, oral historian, author and organic farmer. Silber has written and illustrated a number of books on a broad range of subjects, including local histories of Sumner and Rumford, Maine, organic gardening and stock car racing. He has taught at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, the University of Southern Maine and other institutions.<\/p>\n

Each exhibition photograph is accompanied by an excerpt from the depicted millworker’s oral history interview, produced by Andrea L’Hommedieu, an oral historian for the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Edmund S. Muskie Archives.<\/p>\n

Bill Low, assistant curator at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art, co-designed and helped to install Portraits and Voices<\/em>. To support his work on the exhibition, Low was one of eight ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ faculty and staff to receive a 2007 Harward Center for Community Partnerships grant, given for publicly engaged teaching, research, cultural and other community projects.<\/p>\n

\"Nels<\/a><\/p>\n

While Silber’s photographs portray the workers, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ photographer Nels Nelson ’07 uses his camera to explore the historic, largely unoccupied ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Mill Complex. “Representation in handmade images is illusory, but photographs … \u00a0can be mirrors of specific times and places,” Nelson wrote for his senior thesis exhibition work. Nelson’s archival digital prints that are hung in Museum L-A, he says, “are a record of these spaces before their eventual renovation or destruction.”<\/p>\n

In addition to Portraits and Voices<\/em>, the Harward Center and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ faculty members have partnered with Museum L-A to collect oral histories and create a traveling social-history presentation about the mills and the 20th-century millworker experience. This exhibit will open in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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