2008 Woodie Awards
Art beyond the borders
Corrine Asbell
Issue date: 5/27/08 Section: On Campus
The Eastfield Library is exhibiting photos from Border Studies through June 3. The photos are displayed through Humanities Texas the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The photos in the Border Studies exhibit look into towns in south Texas that stretch across the border into Mexico where people of both sides cross the international border.
"In Texas we're experiencing the very thing this has to do with," Librarian Sherry Jessup said. "It's very apropos for today. This is the way of life for a lot of people, this shared culture."
Pharmacy major Mario Orozco said one of his favorite things about the exhibit was that is showed the two different cultures.
"They way it shows them interacting together makes me hopeful for the day when the rest of the Americans can get along with the Mexican immigrants as well," he said.
Usually the photos on display come from museums, Jessup said the people at Humanities Texas call museums and arrange to have different works on loan throughout Texas.
According to the Humanities Texas Web site, the selection of photos is from eight photographers who highlight the vitality of places, people and patterns of culture along the Texas-Mexico border.
"The Texas-Mexico border is more than a line between two countries," the Web site states. "It is a realm unto itself with a culture of its own. The border is a cradle of hope and anxiety for the well-being of both Mexico and the United States."
Orozco said the photos show a real richness to the border towns and make him understand the culture better.
Jessup said if the photos were on exhibit in the border towns the citizens would be used to them, but because they are on display in Dallas it brings up new subjects.
"This exhibit shows you the community of people, the Mexicans and Americans and their combined, shared culture," she said.
NEH was established by Congress in 1965 and supports research, education, and public programs in the humanities and is responsible for the art exhibits the library displays each year. Jessup said the library tries to display a new exhibit from Humanities Texas each month.
"Most libraries, both public and academic, use exhibits from Humanities Texas," she said.
Jessup said the library applied for and received grant money that enabled them to get more exhibits in 2008 than they can normally afford. The average exhibit lasts about three weeks, but Jessup said some of the planned exhibits for this summer would be on display for six weeks.
"I like to have the exhibits when students are here," she said.
She said because there aren't a lot of students here in December, she usually displays art that the library already possesses.
The next planned exhibit for the Eastfield Library is People's Lives: A Photographic Celebration of the Human Spirit, which runs from July 21 through September 1.
corrine.asbell@gmail.com, kimberly_ansley@yahoo.com
The photos in the Border Studies exhibit look into towns in south Texas that stretch across the border into Mexico where people of both sides cross the international border.
"In Texas we're experiencing the very thing this has to do with," Librarian Sherry Jessup said. "It's very apropos for today. This is the way of life for a lot of people, this shared culture."
Pharmacy major Mario Orozco said one of his favorite things about the exhibit was that is showed the two different cultures.
"They way it shows them interacting together makes me hopeful for the day when the rest of the Americans can get along with the Mexican immigrants as well," he said.
Usually the photos on display come from museums, Jessup said the people at Humanities Texas call museums and arrange to have different works on loan throughout Texas.
According to the Humanities Texas Web site, the selection of photos is from eight photographers who highlight the vitality of places, people and patterns of culture along the Texas-Mexico border.
"The Texas-Mexico border is more than a line between two countries," the Web site states. "It is a realm unto itself with a culture of its own. The border is a cradle of hope and anxiety for the well-being of both Mexico and the United States."
Orozco said the photos show a real richness to the border towns and make him understand the culture better.
Jessup said if the photos were on exhibit in the border towns the citizens would be used to them, but because they are on display in Dallas it brings up new subjects.
"This exhibit shows you the community of people, the Mexicans and Americans and their combined, shared culture," she said.
NEH was established by Congress in 1965 and supports research, education, and public programs in the humanities and is responsible for the art exhibits the library displays each year. Jessup said the library tries to display a new exhibit from Humanities Texas each month.
"Most libraries, both public and academic, use exhibits from Humanities Texas," she said.
Jessup said the library applied for and received grant money that enabled them to get more exhibits in 2008 than they can normally afford. The average exhibit lasts about three weeks, but Jessup said some of the planned exhibits for this summer would be on display for six weeks.
"I like to have the exhibits when students are here," she said.
She said because there aren't a lot of students here in December, she usually displays art that the library already possesses.
The next planned exhibit for the Eastfield Library is People's Lives: A Photographic Celebration of the Human Spirit, which runs from July 21 through September 1.
corrine.asbell@gmail.com, kimberly_ansley@yahoo.com
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