indiVISIBLE comes to The LAVA Center: Opening Reception Friday, May 3 Includes Project Display and Introduction to New Website
LAVA’s project documenting migrant and immigrant farm workers in Western Massachusetts reopens on Friday, May 3 with a reception from 5–8 p.m., a display of photographs by Alfonso Herrera-Neal and Lindy Whiton and words excerpted from field interviews. In addition, members of the project team will introduce a new website that includes images and words from the display, transcripts of the interviews and lesson and unit plan resources for educators.
Over the summer and fall of 2023, indiVISIBLE Co-Directors Herrera-Neal and Whiton, assisted by team members Clara Witty and Elias Neijens, documented through interviews and photography the stories of individuals who are indispensable in our farm-to-table food chain.
The stories highlight the skills involved in agricultural work, and the skills that many migrant and immigrant workers bring with them, but also the difficulties of being separated from family members who stay in their home countries. Herrera-Neal’s black and white photos and Whiton’s color photos capture the landscapes and details of their lives in the fields and orchards of Western Massachusetts.
The project will be on display through July in LAVA’s Humanities Gallery.
indiVISIBLE is funded by Mass Humanities, Greening Greenfield and the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice.
For more information, contact info@indivisiblegreenfield.org.
