All the Sacrifices You’ve Made / Todos los Sacrificios Que has Hecho
A Project by Borderland Collective
The Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center is excited to announce that it has partnered with the Washington State Historical Society for its new exhibit All the Sacrifices You’ve Made / Todos Los Sacrificios Que Has Hecho. This exhibit will be made available to the public starting October 1, 2023.
Exhibition participants curated photos from their own family albums and recorded oral histories describing life growing up in the farm worker communities of Wenatchee and Yakima. The resulting exhibition creates a uniquely personal connection between the viewer and the families. It serves as an acknowledgment of the contributions, resilience, joys, and sacrifices made by farm workers from Eastern Washington agricultural regions.
All the Sacrifices You’ve Made / Todos Los Sacrificios Que Has Hecho is a collaboration between students and staff from the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at the University of Washington and Borderland Collective, an arts collective from Texas.
The exhibition was created by Borderland Collective’s Mark Menjivar and Jason Reed with CAMP staff and students including Luz Iniguez, Natalia Esquivel Silva, Orfil Olmos, Gabriela Ruiz, Moises Mendez, and Alondra Torres.
College Assistance Migrant Program
CAMP is a national program first started in 1972 to support the educational ambitions of the children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. On the University of Washington campus since 2010, the program has supported more than 500 students, standing as a significant legacy of the work started by the farmworker labor movement beginning in the 1950s.
All the Sacrifices You’ve Made / Todos Los Sacrificios Que Has Hecho es una colaboración entre estudiantes y personal del Programa de Asistencia Universitaria para Migrantes (CAMP) de la Universidad de Washington y Borderland Collective, un colectivo artístico de Texas.
Los participantes de la exposición seleccionaron fotografías de sus propios álbumes familiares y grabaron historias orales que describen la vida en las comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas de Entiat, Wenatchee y Yakima. La exposición resultante crea una conexión personal entre el espectador y las familias. Sirve como reconocimiento a las contribuciones, la resiliencia, las alegrías y los sacrificios realizados por los trabajadores agrícolas de las regiones agrícolas del este de Washington.
La exposición fue creada por Mark Menjivar y Jason Reed de Borderland Collective con el personal y estudiantes de CAMP, incluidos Luz Iniguez, Natalia Esquivel Silva, Orfil Olmos, Gabriela Ruiz, Moisés Méndez y Alondra Torres.
Pocket Full of Dreams: Journeys of Hope/
The Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center is excited to announce the opening of our new Pocket Full of Dreams: Journeys of Hope exhibit, featuring artwork from Guest Curator Martha Flores.
Last year, the Wenatchee Valley Museum was fortunate enough to receive funding from the Washington State Legislature, the Diversity in Local History (DLH) program and hired Dulce Gutierrez Vasquez from the University of Washington to cultivate this exhibit. Gutierrez Vasquez worked with members of Wenatchee’s Latin-American community to gather stories and images to help the museum share a more holistic view of the community.
We will highlight five of the ten interviews recorded from this grant in our new exhibit, Pocket Full of Dreams: Journeys of Hope, which celebrates the human experience. Visitors are invited to sit down at the table with these individuals to listen and read their stories to learn about the history, family dynamics, and cultural heritage that shaped who they are today.
Funded by the Washington State Legislature, the Diversity in Local History (DLH) program awards grants for paid internships that support diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at heritage organizations that increase the stories they tell and the communities they serve.
El Museo del Valle de Wenatchee tuvo la suerte de recibir fondos de esta subvención y contratar a Dulce Gutiérrez Vásquez de la Universidad de Washington en 2022, quien trabajó con miembros de la comunidad latinoamericana de Wenatchee para reunir historias e imágenes para ayudar al Museo a compartir una visión más holística de la comunidad.
Destacaremos cinco de las diez entrevistas grabadas de esta beca en nuestra nueva exposición, Bolsillo Lleno de Sueños: Viajes de Esperanza, que celebra la experiencia humana. Los visitantes estan invitados a sentarse en la mesa con estos individuos para escuchar y leer sus historias para aprender sobre la historia, la dinámica familiar y el patrimonio cultural que dieron forma a quienes son hoy.
Financiado por la Legislatura del Estado de Washington, el programa Diversidad en Historia Local otorga subvenciones para pasantías pagadas que apoyan iniciativas de diversidad, equidad e inclusión en organizaciones patrimoniales que aumentan las historias que cuentan y las comunidades a las que sirven.