Held on April 16, 2015
This two-month long exhibition at the Kupferberg Holocaust Center showcased QCC students’ artistic responses to genocide using painting, drawing, poetry, photography, and essays. The exhibition also served as a capstone project for the NEH Challenge Grant interdisciplinary pedagogy project and reflections based on the students' research and response to immersion genocide studies in various disciplines and having been exposed to various colloquia. This exhibit also facilitated student work in writing and collecting memories on postcards, led by Scherezade Garcia, based on a similar installation on the Dominican-Haitian border where participants communicated their memories or lack of knowledge of the 1937 genocidal massacre in the Dominican Republic. The exhibition was created, curated, and assembled by QCC students.
Scherezade García is a painter, printmaker, and installation artist whose work often explores allegories of history, migration, collective and ancestral memory, and cultural colonization and politics. A co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA, she holds an AAS from Altos de Chavón School of Design, a BFA from Parsons School of Design | The New School, and an MFA from The City College of New York, CUNY. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Museum of the Americas, El Museo del Barrio, The Housatonic Museum of Art, El Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, and others.