| Exhibition will be opened until January 3 and two versions will travel throughout the country |
They explore the history of the laborers
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Considered the program of temporary workpeople that marked not only the history of the United States, but the change of his components in the labor topic, immigration and civil rights, the Program Laborer comes to the National museum of American history like a way of producing homage to the contribution of the American mexico to the American society.
The titled exhibition “Harvest Is bitter, Sweet Harvest: The Program Laborer, 1942-1964” is an effort as a whole between the museum and the Service of Exhibitions of the Institution Smithsonian (SITES). The exhibition examines the emergency work program in farms, acquaintance as laborer, across whom there spread 4,6 million short-term labor contracts between 1942 and 1964 and who brought approximately 2 millions of Mexican workpeople to the United States. The term laborer derives from the word in Spanish used in Mexico for the field farmhands or agricultural workers.
The exhibition explores the challenges and opportunities of the laborers in the United States and Mexico. The exhibition includes 15 independent cartels that present photos taken Leonard Nadel, photographer who documented the hard reality of the life of the laborer in 1956. The Nadel photos inspired “bitter Harvest”, which includes 16 of his black and white original copies and a slides presentation with another 170 images.
“ This exhibition allows us to explore complex topics of race, class, community and national origin simultaneously that emphasizes the undeniable contribution of the American mexico to the society of the country”, said Brent D. Glass, the director of the museum. “‘Harvest is bitter’ turns out to be the only opportunity to show a chapter of the important American history, but that usually passes for high”.
“ Bitter harvest” is possible thanks to the financing of the Latin Center of the Smithsonian. The National museum of American history compiles, preserves and exhibits the American legacy in the spheres of the social, political, cultural, scientific and military history.
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| Work is exhibited in the Mansion Strathmore |
Colombian artist says goodbye of DC
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The Colombian artist Julio Salazar, exhibits a selection of his most out-standing works of art in the Mansion Strathmore, Bethesda, Maryland on what the welcome meets to the celebrations for the Month of the Hispanic Heredity.
Julio Salazar nation in Carthage, Vale, Colombia in 1957 between an artists' family.
From early age he was interested by the drawing and in 1976 he was present at the school of art of David Manzur in Bogota, where he felt captivated by the human figure. But, it was not up 1982 that he travels to Paris where it hardened his desire to be an artist.
Then it returned to Colombia and graduated in the National University of Bogota what meant a big experience for the artist, not only for the acquired knowledge but also for the persons' quality that had him to know.
After graduating, it was supported between Colombia, Paris and the United States until he decided to take root in New York, where it keeps on doing, trying to do a reflection in each of his pieces, which like pages of a book it provides continuity with a different point of view on having turned round to each of his pages.
His work is in exhibition up to this weekend in the Mansion Strathmore, located in 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Maryland. For more information visit www.strathmore.org
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| The importance of the word |
450 years of Hispanic poetry
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In the frame of the celebrations for the Month of the Hispanic heredity that began on September 15, the Library of the Congress has prepared an activities agenda to highlight the valuable support of the Spanish-American poets to the literature.
In parallel there are celebrated 450 years of the Hispanic poetry in the United States by what it was decided to produce homage across the translation of Hispanic poetry responsible for recognized American authors.
Between the out-standing writers and translators.
The appointment with the Spanish-American poetry under the translation of figures of the American literatuta will be September 25 at midday in the building James Madison of the Congress, 101 Independence Ave., Washington DC (third apartment).
There will be a reception after the presentation. Free revenue.
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