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Hostile Terrains Exhibition

September 30, 2021 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Please join us for the opening of the exhibition Hostile Terrains at the Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, Mitchell Hall room 170 on Thursday, September 30, 2021 from 5-7pm. The exhibition will run through February 10, 2022.

Hostile Terrains visually explores the intersection of landscape, policy, and violence in Milwaukee and at the US-Mexico border. This participatory and interdisciplinary exhibition includes installations by faculty, staff, and students from several departments. They examine the experiences of African Americans, Native People, Women, the Covid Pandemic, and immigrants from Mexico and elsewhere as relating to policy, place, and justice.

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Date:
September 30, 2021
Time:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.