winter 2007

Home: Where We Came From,
Where We're Going

January 2 to 25

How would you define "home" if everything you know has been swept away from under your feet? In August 2006, artist Emilia Muller-Ginorio accompanied New Orleanians on their first journey back since Hurricane Katrina.

"Home: Where We Came From, Where We're Going" incorporates the stories of Katrina survivors with art and photographs of post-Katrina New Orleans created by the survivors and the artist. The art, photographs and text explore the concept of home, oppression and civil rights in the context of natural disaster.

(top) Messages of hope such as this one mark the city. This board was on display in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

(bottom) Nell, a New Orleans native, is paying three times the price of her pre-Katrina apartment for a run-down, two-bedroom apartment in which she has to house her four children in the Lower Ninth Ward. Photos courtesy Emilia Muller-Ginorio.