April 3, 2008 through October 3, 2008

Opening Reception April 3, 2008 5 - 8 p.m.
Open to Public, Food provided

FUSE is a portrait exhibit of the complex worlds of resettled refugees in the Phoenix metro area. It fosters critical thinking on who refugees are and how, through sharing experiences, the Phoenix metro community can seek common ground. The photographs validate the struggles and triumphs of these families, portraying them in a way that fosters a deeper sense of belonging in the community. The exhibition is being developed in collaboration with Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees (COAR), a youth-led nonprofit organization based in Tempe that works with refugees and local artist Eliza Gregory, a member of the eye lounge artist cooperative on Roosevelt Row.

From Harm to Home, a mini-exhibit featuring 48 paintings by refugee youths are new on exhibit until October 3, 2008. Read more...

Fuse Events
Dueling Scholars
ASU Professors Betsy Schneider and Kristin Koptiuch discuss resettlement, community and photographic representation from the perspectives of art and anthropology.
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 5 - 7 p.m.

Museum walk-throughs with the artist
Thursday, April 10, 2008, noon
Thursday, April 17, 2008 5 p.m.

Film Screening
“Rain in a Dry Land”
by Anne Makepeace
Tuesday, June 17th 2008 at 6:30 pm

In celebration of World Refugee Day COAR (Community Outreach & Advocacy for Refugees) along with the ASU Museum of Anthropology will be  screening this multi award winning, compassionate & eye-opening film.

The film measures the distance from an African refugee camp to an American city and asks what it means to be a refugee in today's "global village," providing answers in the stories of two families whose response to 21st-century culture shock presents an uncommon portrait of human persistence in the face of social disorder and change.

"Rain in a Dry Land paints an intimate portrait of the lives of the "American Bantu," revealing their  beauty and resilience without condescension, and illustrating the special care new refugees need with clarity and compassion." East African Standard.


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Photographs by Eliza Gregory