On display is the artwork of local artist and social worker Myrna Balk, who spent time teaching in Kathmandu, Nepal. There she met women who were returned to their villages after being sold into slavery. The women, Balk explains in her display, had been kidnapped and taken to India where they worked as sex slaves until they became infected with HIV and returned. Their stories inspired Balk to produce the etchings. Each piece addresses a dimension of the business of trafficking of women.
Captions explain the topic and give statistical data.
The originals of the work were shown last June at the United Nations in New York at an international art exhibition sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund for Women. The current exhibit will be shown for a month and then followed by a display of drawings by the Nepali women Balk interviewed.