“UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage,” a first-of-its-kind multi-media installation, is opening next week at Mississippi State’s Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery.
Displayed Sept. 30-Nov. 1 on the second floor of MSU’s Welcome Center, the exhibition is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Humanities Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, Mississippi Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, and The Criss Trust. Co-organizers are the Department of Art in MSU’s College of Architecture, Art and Design, and the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences. Created during summer 2017, “UNPACKED” features the work of Syrian-born artist and architect Mohamad Hafez and Iraqi-born writer and speaker Ahmed Badr.
Gallery viewing hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and a public reception for the exhibition will be held Sept. 30 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the same location.
Sept. 30, 10 a.m., Fowlkes Auditorium in Colvard Student Union, “Communicating Migrant Identity” panel discussion featuring Hafez; Jenna Altomonte, assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Art; Milena A. Melo, assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures; and Keith Moser, professor in MSU’s Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures.
