WINTER, 2012
JANUARY 24- MARCH 23, 2012
The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers

OPENING RECEPTION: February 2, 2012, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Doug Adams Gallery.

California migrant farm workers, a segment of society numbering over one million strong, supply the United States with more than half the produce we eat each day.

"The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers," an art, humanities and educational exhibition, uses a photojournalistic lens to look closely at their lives and through them, ask questions about the human cost of feeding America. Through forty images and bi-lingual text, this multi-layered portrait details the lives and struggles of the rarely seen faces of this invisible and consistently neglected population.

It was shot throughout the state, from the border at Calexico to the capital, Sacramento, and depicts everything from family life, the issues of women and children, to the search for housing, immigration, health care and the scraping together of culture and community. By providing these and other details, photographer Rick Nahmias aims to foster empathy with today's migrants as well as by providing a humanistic perspective through which to understand their lives and contributions.

Additional information about thistraveling exhibit is available at www.themigrantproject.com

SPRING/SUMMER, 2012
APRIL 5 - AUGUST 241
Mining the Collection, featuring the work of Cathy Richardson

OPENING RECEPTION: April 5, 2012, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Doug Adams Gallery.

Desert Chandelier

Sky Light

Catherine Richardson grew up near the Moors and Dales of northern England and attended Art College in London for her BFA. The natural world has always provided poetic intrigue for her, and she has used painting, sculptural installations and drawings as a platform to explore various ways of communicating phenomenology of eco systems.

After graduating with an MFA from John F Kennedy’s Arts and Consciousness, Catherine was awarded the Sonoma County Emerging Artist Award and twice nominated for the prestigious Eureka Fellowship. She is a member of the B(for Beauty) Club, a collaborative group of five artists.
Each year, a single artist is invited by the Doug Adams Gallery to create a body of work inspired by the Badè archaeology collection. The artist-in-residence gains access to the entire Badè collection, spends time with staff archaeologists and curators, and conducts research that will drive their final exhibition. This series helps to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and brings to life significant artifacts from biblical times, placing them in a new contemporary context.

Since the opening of the Doug Adams Gallery in 2009, we have been reflecting on our relationship with the Badè Museum, and on the connecting currents that unite our respective missions. Both sides of the room deal with human agency, the creation of material objects, and larger questions of humanity. Together, they represent modern and ancient societies, the disciplines of art and archaeology, and visual and material culture.