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On going 2019 - 2020
Nov. 6, 2019 - Jan. 5, 2020. Newest Americans: New Citizens Reflect on What America Means to Them
This limited run exhibition, featuring 33 portraits and interviews of immigrants from 23 countries of origin—including four from the Mount Horeb area, hopes to prompt discussion on America’s legacy as a nation of immigrants and the future of the American dream.
Across the country, immigration is a notoriously loaded and often divisive topic. Against this backdrop, California-based photographer Same Comen and interviewer Michael Estrin set out to capture the experiences of new Americans in the moments following naturalization ceremonies in February and March 2017. Their work resulted in the development of “The Newest Americans: New Citizens Reflect on What America Means to Them,” a traveling exhibit created in partnership with the California Museum and museum services firm Exhibit Envoy.
Across the country, immigration is a notoriously loaded and often divisive topic. Against this backdrop, California-based photographer Same Comen and interviewer Michael Estrin set out to capture the experiences of new Americans in the moments following naturalization ceremonies in February and March 2017. Their work resulted in the development of “The Newest Americans: New Citizens Reflect on What America Means to Them,” a traveling exhibit created in partnership with the California Museum and museum services firm Exhibit Envoy.
The exhibit includes photographs accompanied by text panels presented in English and Spanish, sharing the subjects’ views on why they chose to become American citizens and what the American dream means to them. In addition, exhibit guests will have the opportunity to test their own American moxy by taking a sample civics test—an important part of the application process to become a U.S. citizen, in which an immigration official quizzes prospective citizen with a variety of questions about history, geography and government. (There are 100 possible questions; applicants are asked up to ten questions and must be able to answer at least six correctly.)
Recognizing immigration’s foundational influence on and continued presence in Southwestern Dane County, the Mount Horeb Area Historical Society decided it was important to develop a local extension of the exhibit. Outreach resulted in four foreign-born partners, now proud citizens and integral members of the Mount Horeb community. Exhibit goers will learn about their stories, too.
“Newest Americans” is viewable as part of the Historium’s admission-based guest experience daily 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. from November 6, 2019 through January 5, 2020. An exhibit reception on Friday, December 6 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. will celebrate the four featured “Newest Americans” from the Mount Horeb area. The reception is free and open to the public. This installation is part of the Driftless Historium’s 2019 theme, “Immigrants of Wisconsin: Yesterday and Today” and made possible by the Mount Horeb Community Foundation. For more information, call 608-437-6486 or email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net.
This limited run exhibition, featuring 33 portraits and interviews of immigrants from 23 countries of origin—including four from the Mount Horeb area, hopes to prompt discussion on America’s legacy as a nation of immigrants and the future of the American dream.
Across the country, immigration is a notoriously loaded and often divisive topic. Against this backdrop, California-based photographer Same Comen and interviewer Michael Estrin set out to capture the experiences of new Americans in the moments following naturalization ceremonies in February and March 2017. Their work resulted in the development of “The Newest Americans: New Citizens Reflect on What America Means to Them,” a traveling exhibit created in partnership with the California Museum and museum services firm Exhibit Envoy.
Across the country, immigration is a notoriously loaded and often divisive topic. Against this backdrop, California-based photographer Same Comen and interviewer Michael Estrin set out to capture the experiences of new Americans in the moments following naturalization ceremonies in February and March 2017. Their work resulted in the development of “The Newest Americans: New Citizens Reflect on What America Means to Them,” a traveling exhibit created in partnership with the California Museum and museum services firm Exhibit Envoy.
The exhibit includes photographs accompanied by text panels presented in English and Spanish, sharing the subjects’ views on why they chose to become American citizens and what the American dream means to them. In addition, exhibit guests will have the opportunity to test their own American moxy by taking a sample civics test—an important part of the application process to become a U.S. citizen, in which an immigration official quizzes prospective citizen with a variety of questions about history, geography and government. (There are 100 possible questions; applicants are asked up to ten questions and must be able to answer at least six correctly.)
Recognizing immigration’s foundational influence on and continued presence in Southwestern Dane County, the Mount Horeb Area Historical Society decided it was important to develop a local extension of the exhibit. Outreach resulted in four foreign-born partners, now proud citizens and integral members of the Mount Horeb community. Exhibit goers will learn about their stories, too.
“Newest Americans” is viewable as part of the Historium’s admission-based guest experience daily 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. from November 6, 2019 through January 5, 2020. An exhibit reception on Friday, December 6 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. will celebrate the four featured “Newest Americans” from the Mount Horeb area. The reception is free and open to the public. This installation is part of the Driftless Historium’s 2019 theme, “Immigrants of Wisconsin: Yesterday and Today” and made possible by the Mount Horeb Community Foundation. For more information, call 608-437-6486 or email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net.