‘Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families’ traveling exhibit bridges diverse backgroundsPosted in Articles, Arts, Campus Life, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, United States on 2011-05-26 04:01Z by Steven |
‘Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families’ traveling exhibit bridges diverse backgrounds
Daily Bruin
University of California, Los Angeles
2011-05-22
Lenika Cruz
Starting this evening, UCLA will act as a home for 20 families, each with a story to tell about being multiracial Americans.
While these families will not be physically present, their photographs and interviews will be, as part of “Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families,” a traveling exhibit that began circulating the country in the early ’90s.
The exhibit came to UCLA from the organization Family Diversity Projects as part of a collaboration between Multiracial Americans of Southern California and UCLA’s Mixed Student Union. An opening reception with a speech from Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kinnery Shah will take place in the Ackerman second floor lounge, after which the exhibit will move to the Kerckhoff Art Gallery until Friday.
The project is the work of Peggy Gillespie and Gigi Kaeser, co-founders of Family Diversity Projects. They interviewed and photographed more than 40 families living in and around Amherst, Mass., who identified as multiracial. One family consisted of a Puerto Rican mother, an African American father and their children, while another family featured Caucasian parents who had adopted children from Peru and China…
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