Border Art Exhibit — UW-Oshkosh

An excellent art exhibit “Border: A Multi-Artist Project” recently opened at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (April 9 to May 3, 2008).  There is a symposium on immigration and border issues on Tuesday, April 22, at 2 p.m.  The group exhibition includes filmmaker Dan Banda, painters Jeff Lipschutz and Fred Stonehouse, and fiber artist Ximena Soza. The exhibit examines “global immigration through the prism of the US-Mexican dilemma.”

“The debate over immigration may be an old story, but the artwork born of its unsettling return, as witnessed here, is new. At the very least, border art, as an evolving subgenre, has expanded its boundary northward and into communities previously unimagined. Crossing borders, while challenging at the checkpoints, is worth the journey. You can try to stop them, but they’ll make it across anyhow.” – from With a Wall by Teri Tyne.

For more information, including some pictures, about the exhibit, click Download borderFinalBODYlowres.pdf

KJ