Date:
Ongoing every day from November 17, 2006 through January 31, 2007.
8:00 AM.<BR/>
Location: CCSRE Reading Room, Main Quad, Building 240, 2nd Floor<BR/><BR/>
<p>This exhibit documents the indigenous people of Mexico and Central America's journey through the desert trails of Southern Arizona. In their thirst for a better life, an estimated 3,000 migrants have lost their lives on the U.S./Mexico border since policies implemented in the 1990s. Hecho en Mexico and raised in Houston, Texas, Orlando Lara is an artist, scholar and writer. He earned a B.A. in Chicana/o Studies from Stanford University in 2003 where he studied border and migration issues. During his undergraduate years, he worked extensively with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts where Orlando is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at New York University, where he is developing an expertise on matters of border construction, diaspora,formation and filmic and written representations of the real. He also has the pleasure of working on the development of the Latino Studies Program at NYU and of serving as the President of the Graduate Student Council for the 2006-07 school year. he received expert training in the creative arts. </p><BR/>
Ongoing every day from November 17, 2006 through January 31, 2007.
8:00 AM.<BR/>
Location: CCSRE Reading Room, Main Quad, Building 240, 2nd Floor<BR/><BR/>
<p>This exhibit documents the indigenous people of Mexico and Central America's journey through the desert trails of Southern Arizona. In their thirst for a better life, an estimated 3,000 migrants have lost their lives on the U.S./Mexico border since policies implemented in the 1990s. Hecho en Mexico and raised in Houston, Texas, Orlando Lara is an artist, scholar and writer. He earned a B.A. in Chicana/o Studies from Stanford University in 2003 where he studied border and migration issues. During his undergraduate years, he worked extensively with the Institute for Diversity in the Arts where Orlando is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at New York University, where he is developing an expertise on matters of border construction, diaspora,formation and filmic and written representations of the real. He also has the pleasure of working on the development of the Latino Studies Program at NYU and of serving as the President of the Graduate Student Council for the 2006-07 school year. he received expert training in the creative arts. </p><BR/>