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New Exhibition @ Sun Valley Center for the Arts - Home Front

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Generations ago, Americans supported the war effort in ways that ranged from joining the workforce to conserving resources to forming knitting circles and hanging bunting. Today, although our country has thousands of soldiers deployed around the world, most of us carry on with our lives largely unaffected by this reality.

Through exhibitions of contemporary and historical visual art, lectures and a panel discussion, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts hopes to engage the community in a discussion about what the term “home front” means today—and what it’s like for a soldier to return home.

An opening reception for Home Front will be held Friday, March 1 from 4:30 to 6 pm, earlier than usual so people can attend the free 6 pm screening of the Oscar-nominated film The Invisible War, at the Family of Women Film Festival.

The Home Front exhibition at The Center, Ketchum, will feature vintage World War I and II posters from the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami alongside work by six contemporary artists.

  • Jennifer Karady has worked with veterans to produce a series of large-scale photographs that address the difficulties many soldiers face in returning to civilian life.
  • Cat Mazza organized a group of knitters to make helmet liners for every U.S. senator; some of the liners will be on display along with letters received from the senators they were sent to. The Center will also be screening her film, Knit for Defense, which presents archival footage from U.S. wars translated into images of knit stitches.
  • Stephanie Freid-Perenchio has photographed Navy SEAL families at departures, during deployments and at homecomings.
  • Chad Person used U.S. currency to create the collaged images in TaxCut,a project that questions the amount of money the government spends on defense as well as its treatment of veterans.
  • Allison Smith has made a set of buntings that, paired with images of and stories from female veterans, reflect on how we honor veterans, how we tell their stories, and the changing role of women in the military.

The exhibition will also feature five books created by veterans as part of artist Monica Haller’s Veterans Book Project. Haller has worked with dozens of people affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to help them tell their stories about life before, during and after deployment.

 Free tours of the exhibition will be offered at 5:30 pm Thursdays, Mar 21, April 25 and May 23. Exhibition tours at other times, in English or Spanish, can be arranged by calling 726.9491 in advance. Regular gallery hours are Monday–Friday 9 am–5 pm and Saturdays in February and March 11am–5pm. The gallery will stay open until 7 pm for Gallery Walk on Friday, March 15 and Saturday, May 25.

 A complementary exhibition at The Center, Hailey, will focus on veterans in the Wood River Valley. Home Front: Higher Ground will display artwork made by men and women who have participated in Higher Ground’s rehabilitation programs for wounded veterans alongside Hailey photographer Matthew Hayes’s photographs of Higher Ground participants. Everyone is invited to a free opening reception on Thursday, March 14, from 5 to 6:30 pm.

Higher Ground Sun Valley Military (www.highergroundsv.org/militaryprograms/ uses therapeutic recreation to facilitate a change in perspective, giving injured service members the physical skills, confidence, and coping strategies necessary for a successful reintegration into their families and home communities. HG is recognized as one of the premier rehabilitation programs in the country by the Department of Defense, military medical centers, and veteran service organizations. We serve military personnel and veterans with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), Post Traumatic Stress Discorder (PTSD) and other polytrauma.

Additional programs include talks by author and Vietnam veteran Tim O’Brien on March 13 and Admiral Jay L. Johnson on April 2, plus a free panel discussion with families affected by deployment on April 4. For details and lecture tickets, visit www.sunvalleycenter.org.



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