Celebrate women’s history with UMass Dartmouth art exhibition

Mar 5, 2021

On March 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., the UMassD CVPA Star Series continues its visual arts programming to celebrate Women’s History Month.

The event will highlight the end of Rhode Island photographer Alexandra Broches’ exhibition “Dear Alexandra, Letters and Pictures From a Box,” at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford.

Broches’ work combines family photos and portraits of and letters by many of her relatives — some of whom were lost in the Holocaust. The handwritten and typed correspondence, written in Dutch, introduces the artist and her audience to her ancestors and family members through patient reading and translation.

For the event, the letters will be given voice by the artist, her daughter and granddaughter reading them in their original language and translation.

The evening will also feature the reading of a new poem by New Bedford Poet Laureate Patricia Gomes, written as a reflection on the exhibition. Audio artist Tracey Cockrell will also debut a sound art piece using a retrofitted typewriter called a “poemophone.’

The evening will conclude with a performance by New Bedford jazz band The Hot Club Cheese Roll.

To sign up for the exhibition, visit umassdartmouthgalleries.eventbrite.com.