MenuNews September 13, 2017
Over 100 Attend Sites of Resistance Opening
Small Center’s fall exhibit, Sites of Resistance: An Exhibit Exploring Geographies + Histories of Social Change in New Orleans, opened yesterday night, with over 100 visitors in attendance.
Bill Quigley, professor of law and Director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University, facilitated a lively discussion of current and past resistance movements in New Orleans.
Sites of Resistance works to reframe a dominant narrative that has obscured New Orleans’ historical role as a site of intense organizing, legal strategy, labor struggle, and civil rights activism. By elevating lineages and spaces of dissent and marginalized stories of inter-racial collaboration, as well as histories of direct conflict and challenge in contested spaces, we hope to reconnect our audience with the possibilities for making change that have been erased from our civic framework.
Curated by our Public Programs Manager, Sue Mobley, this exhibit is made possible through the generous support of the Surdna Foundation.
Sites of Resistance will be on view in our storefront until February 2018. Public visiting hours are 9 am – 5 pm, Monday – Friday. Free admission.
