FLAGSTAFF — The opening reception of Tom Kiefer’s “El Sueño Americano / The American Dream” will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23 at the Coconino Center for the Arts, 2300 N. Fort Valley Road, Flagstaff.
The exhibit is a photographic documentation of the personal belongings carried by migrants and those seeking asylum that were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a processing facility near the artist’s home in Ajo, Arizona. U.S. border agents deemed these belongings as non-essential or potentially lethal. Kiefer asks the viewer to consider these photographs as untold and unknown stories, markers of human journeys cut short, creating a personal connection for the viewer that extends compassion and empathy to those who make the dangerous journey across the desert to seek a better life.
Courtesy images.