Exhibit - Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler

Wednesday, Jul 26, 2023 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Chandler Museum
300 S Chandler Village Dr.
480-782-2717
Free.

What would force you to leave your home? In the late 1930s, during the Dust Bowl, Chandler experienced an influx of migrants who fled their homes in search of a better life. Well-known government photographers Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee documented unique stories showing these migrants and their dwellings, which were often temporary.

Chandler Museum's newest exhibition, "Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler," is a history of Dust Bowl Chandler through distinct black and white photographs. It examines what home looked like and makes connections between 1930s Chandler and Chandler today. It includes themes of housing, migration, agriculture, technology, self-sufficiency, and empathy. The 3,000-square-foot exhibition opens to the public.

Camera equipment from government photographer Russell Lee, on loan from Texas State University, will be on display along with other vintage cameras from the era. Visitors will also see a 1928 Chevrolet pickup on loan from Arizona Model A.

"Our hope is that visitors immerse themselves in the time and place when they explore this exhibition," says Museum Administrator Jody Crago. He added, "They will ponder the question, 'What does home mean?' and consider how this story from the 1930s connects to us today."

The Chandler Museum has social distancing reminders throughout the building.

"Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler" will be on display at the Chandler Museum March 8, 2022 - August 13, 2023.

Free admission.

Find more information online at www.chandlermuseum.org, or by calling 480-782-2717.

Chandler Museum is an innovative learning environment where the community comes together to share our stories, store our cultural heritage and experience Chandler as a people and place. The vision of the Museum is to be the community's principal resource to explore its people's history, culture, and place in a rapidly changing world of today – within and without the walls of a building.

For more details https://www.chandleraz.gov/news-center/chandler-museum-unveils-newest-exhibition-picturing-home-dust-bowl-migrants-chandler.

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