"The Border" by Brooke Eaton-Skea

Join us for a Gallery Reception with punch & light desserts.

From the artist: In the mid-80's I lived with my family in McAllen Texas, a town on the border of Reynosa, Mexico. In those days we and our friends from Mexico frequently went back and forth across the border. It was not until 2014, when there was talk of building "a big, beautiful wall", that I thought much about the border between us and our Mexican neighbors.

Working with the Safe Harbors Ministry of St. Peter's Lutheran and other faith communities on the Cape opened my eyes to the difficulty and complexity of immigrating to the United States. Meeting migrants who are asylum seekers, refugees, undocumented workers and students, and hearing their stories through programs such as Safe Harbors, Building a Bigger Table, the Youth Outreach and Hospitality and Refugee Support Teams of the Nauset Interfaith Association, has made immigration a very important issue to me.

A few years ago, distraught by what I was reading and hearing in the news and by reading abook entitled Children at the Border: An American Human Rights Crisis by Jo-Anne Wilson Keenan, I made some prints and collages that began my work on this exhibit. Two of the collages include little copies of drawings by Guatemalan children, published in Time, who had been in US custody in 2019. Since then I have read about and looked at hundreds of photos of people seeking refuge in our country and have painted small portraits of some of them.

Proceeds from the sale of the artwork will go to Building a Bigger Table

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This program is supported in part by grants from the Brewster, Dennis and Orleans cultural councils, local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency as well as a grant from Cape Cod Five Bank.