Join the Martin-Springer Institute for the opening of their latest exhibition, “The Disappeared: Portraits of Absence,” with receptions on Thursday Feb. 29 at the Coconino Center for the Arts from 6-8 p.m. and Monday March 4 in the Riles building (3rd floor) on the NAU campus. The reception in Riles includes a presentation in Spanish with live translation with Araceli Salcedo. This public humanities project exhibits photographs of victims and family members of disappeared individuals in Mexico collected by the Collective Family of the Disappeared Orizaba-Cordoba. Since 2006, disappearances have risen in Mexico. The word “disappearance” refers to the implication of these missing persons have been illegally deprived of their freedom. They are rarely recovered and if the victim bodies are discovered, they are often unidentifiable. Organizations like the Collective Family of the Disappeared Orizaba-Cordoba search for the disappeared. NAU students created the exhibit under the mentorship of Dr. Pedro Gonzalez Corona (MSI Postdoctoral Fellow) and Dr. Björn Krondorfer (director of MSI and Regents’ Professor).
