3:30 pm, Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Good Library Gallery

Public Reception- Brought Home: Objects and Stories from 50 years of SST

Celebrate the opening of Brought Home: Objects and Stories from 50 Years of SST with us in the Harold and Wilma Good Library Gallery!

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Study-Service Term at Goshen College, this exhibit will contain artifacts that students and faculty leaders acquired during their SST terms and brought back home.

The exhibit offers a wide variety of mundane and exotic objects, fine art and folk art, including paintings, textiles, toys, carvings, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, baskets, masks and metalwork. Some were gifts from friends in the foreign country. All embody lasting stories and memories of people and events.

The items come from the earliest units, from 1968, in Guadeloupe, Costa Rica and Jamaica as well as the most recent ones in China, Tanzania, Peru, Senegal and Indonesia.

John Blosser, Professor Emeritus of Art, is curator of the exhibit, assisted by students Rachel Yoder and Katie Yoder. The exhibit is sponsored by the International Education Office and the Mennonite- Amish Museum Committee. Members of the planning committee are John Blosser, Jan Bender Shetler, Katie Yoder, Rachel Yoder, Ervin Beck and Barbara Smucker.

Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public. For open hours, call 535-7421 or 535-7346.

Image: Garifuna Painting, Cassava Harvest by a Woman.

Contact: Veronica J Berkey, email vberkey@goshen.edu

See also: For more information and the full schedule of Global Education Conference events.