"The Migrant Project." Courtesy image.
SANTA PAULA — The opening reception for “The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers” will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25 at the Agriculture Museum, 926 Railroad Ave., Santa Paula.
The award-winning art, humanities and educational exhibit features photographs and text by Rick Nahmias. Nahmias traveled across California through 50 towns, from Calexico to Sacramento, to document stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of migrant farm workers who harvest the crops that end up on American dinner tables.
Composed of 40 gelatin silver photographs and bilingual text panels, the exhibit will be displayed through Oct. 30. It premiered in 2003 as an official exhibit of the California Council on the Humanities and has toured nationwide. The Santa Paula exhibit will be its final showing. Visitors who come to view the photographs and text will also be able to watch Rick Nahmias’ 20-minute documentary film, “Fair Food: Field to Table,” created with the participation of the California Institute for Rural Studies, which will be shown continuously in the Finch Family Gallery. Xavier “Big X” Montes and his De Colores music students will provide music, and refreshments will be served.
Free to Museum of Ventura County members. To RSVP, call 805-525-3100.