School and community groups are invited to schedule a free tour of Bearing Witness, an exhibition featuring 36 mixed-media quilts and other works of fabric art, on display at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg from Aug. 28 through Dec. 13.
Presented in collaboration with the RVCC’s Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and its Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, the exhibition will feature artwork highlighting the perils of anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, sexism, and inequity.
The exhibition, organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Inc., will be on display in the Morris & Dorothy Hirsch Library of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Racism, located on the second floor of the College’s Evelyn S. Field Library.
In its announcement about the exhibit, RVCC said that humanity’s shared history includes a violent and shameful component: deliberate attempts to eradicate specific populations due to differences in culture, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression, and race. These themes are explored in the exhibition, which features work by artists from the United States, as well as the United Kingdom, Israel, Germany, Italy, and Canada, the college said.
For additional information about the exhibition or to schedule a tour, contact Michelle Edgar, program specialist, Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. To learn more about the Holocaust Institute, visit the college’s website here.
Raritan Valley Community College is located at 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg.
PHOTO CAPTION: “A Shared Destiny,” by Patty Kennedy-Zafred, is part of the Bearing Witness art exhibition at Raritan Valley Community College spotlighting the deliberate attempts in human history to eradicate populations based on their race, culture, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression. – Photo courtesy of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Inc.
