The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated dual-language catalogue with the same title as the exhibition. Related programming, including a symposium, literary series and a performance will expand upon the history of artistic exile in America and contemporary problems of artist exiles in diverse countries. Many migr s who arrived between 1914 and 1955 entered a nation rocked by labor struggles, social unrest and international pressures. Join singer, songwriter, local recording artist and former professor of history Bucky Halker at the Block Gallery as he presents folk songs from the First World War through the Cold War. Halker is on the staff at the Illinois Humanities Council.
Northwestern students are free with identification.
May 8, May 15, May 22 and May 29 at the Block Gallery. Join us as four Chicago writers read excerpts from their books detailing conditions for their exile or others exile. Learn how it affected their lives, during weekly two-hour sessions. Northwestern students admitted free with identification. His family left the country voluntarily as a result of a police raid on their home and other pressures.