23 August, 2022
Displacement
Hopkinton Center for the Arts Curator Fellowship Exhibition
98 Hayden Rowe St, Hopkinton MA
October 7–November 12, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, October 14, 2022 | 6:00–7:00 p.m.
The Hopkinton Center for the Arts (HCA) is pleased to announce that it will host “Displacement”, an art exhibition welcoming and celebrating immigrants through storytelling.
This multi-media exhibition highlights gentrification and the erasure of community through the preservation of culture, while revealing political systems in order to raise awareness about what goes on beyond our immediate borders. Curator Flor Delgadillo will bring together seven artists from different parts of the world that all share the lived experience of constant migration.
Within this shared lived experience each artist reacts to political borders that have been created with the purpose to divide. However, throughout the exhibition it is revealed how forced and constant migration has actually done the opposite and united the artist. As activists, each artist has devoted themselves to creating community, advocating for minorities, speaking on invisible disabilities, and fighting for human rights.
Exhibition Artists: Flor Delgadillo, Alonso Nichols, Iaritza Menjivar, Ravjot Mehek Singh, Rebecca Wakim, Niki Silva, Marla Mccloud
Flor Delgadillo is a bilingual Mexican artist, curator and educator. She holds a Masters in Fine Arts and Museum Studies from Tufts University SMFA. Her artistic practice challenges traditional approaches to medical science. Delgadillo has exhibited in Boston galleries such as Nearby Gallery and Pfizer’s LAB Central. Delgadillo comes from the border city of San Diego and Tijuana. As a curator she strives to raise awareness about what goes on beyond our borders.
This exhibition is presented under the HCA's annual Curator Fellowship program. This program was created in honor of HCA’s founding co-director Kris Waldman, who shares a great passion for art that fosters dialogue around diversity and inclusivity, particularly of underrepresented communities.
Flor Delgadillo was selected to be this year's curator fellow by a panel of jurors: Payal Thiffalt & Michelle May from Juniper Rag Magazine, Leslie Condon (last year's winning curator), and Sarah Alexander, the Director of Visual Arts at Hopkinton Center for the Arts.
