An art + anthropology exhibit highlighting the violence of immigration policies on undocumented migrants crossing at the southern border & in our local Iowa communities (on display in Bucksbaum until the end of April 2025)

Month: September 2024

Installation Update #3

A group of students and professors began to tape grid squares to the exhibit wall, which will help with the future placement of geolocated toe tags that show the exact location where the remains of deceased migrants were found.

Prof. Xavi Escandell and Anthropology Department student worker Da Hye aligning grid squares.

Grid squares along the U.S.-Mexico border have been place. Most of the toe tags will go at the bottom showing the geography of violent U.S. border policy. Students from left to right: Avajane, Jorge, Da Hye, and Kyle.

Student volunteer Julia (left) leading an impromptu toe tag workshop at Bucksbaum.

Video showing the first 6 toe tags being placed on the exhibit wall.

 

Installation Update #2

Student volunteers helped to put the vinyl stickers that make up the U.S.-Mexico border near the Sonoran Desert, the names of cities in Arizona, and a map scale. Video courtesy of Judd B.

Stickers representing the border wall, scale, and Arizona city names. A laser was used to ensure all of the stickers were level.

Installation Update #1

Paul H. installing the frame for the exhibit

The completed frame and 1/2″ x 7.5′ x 16′ foam core board wall.

A close-up of what the Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibit wall will look like when the vinyl stickers of the border wall and all 3000+ toe tags are filled out by volunteers at Grinnell College and the wider Grinnell community.

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