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The Way In: Art and the Immigrant Experience


 

This is the Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center.




This is a map of the building that shows the Rouse Company Foundation Gallery. (Find the word “performing”. Go straight down. See the blue shape that looks like a lake? That’s it.)



This is the exhibition on display in the Rouse Company Foundation Gallery until March 15th.


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This is the artist, Lusmerlin Lantigua.

Artist Lusmerlin Lantigua talks about the elements she incorporated into “The Big Rip,” a monumental work on display at Howard Community College. (Rick Hutzell/The Banner)

This is the article in the Banner by Rick Hutzell that you should read whether or not you are able to attend the art show. 

Hutzell: In ‘The Big Rip,’ an artist shares today’s immigrant experience, Rick Hutzell, Baltimore Banner

About the art, Lusmerlin explains:

“It is about this moment,” artist Lusmerlin Lantigua says. “It serves as a way for me to cope also, and it has, I think, that general sensation I have had, is that things are falling apart.”

A way to cope…when things are falling apart. 

Read the entire piece. You’ll find one of those empowered, unapologetic women living creative lives that I talked about yesterday. Add to that the immigrant experience, a highly skilled chemical engineer, a journey of transformation, the importance of arts access, the value of the arts to communicate across the chasm of cultural differences.

Don’t have a subscription to the Banner? I bet you have a library card.

This is the Howard County Library Website.



Tap on the three horizontal lines in the upper right corner.



Tap on Digital Library. Then tap eMagazines & eNewspapers.


Scroll down and find Baltimore Banner. Follow the directions and you’re in!




HCLS removes a barrier to accessing stories like this, stories which do crucial work in connecting the reader what is precious and deeply human inside all of us, 

The story of this moment in America is being told in many ways, and not just in the news or on social media or nationally televised events.

Sometimes you can find it in quiet little galleries tucked out of the way in a suburban community college.

You just have to be willing to look. 

Have you seen the exhibit? I’d love to hear all about it.


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