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Current Work
Currently Touring Photo-text Exhibits:
In Our Family: Portraits of All Kinds of Families
The exhibit celebrates families of every kind, including adoptive families, foster families, multiracial families, physically challenged families, lesbian and gay parented families, interfaith families, multi-generational families and more. Together, the text and images reveal the common thread present in this tapestry of families: love. A curriculum/Resource guide was just published to accompany this exhibit to schools.
Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families
This award-winning exhibit offers a powerful and moving vision of the growing diversity of the American family. These families clearly have much to teach everyone about the most intimate form of integration: family love. Of Many Colors includes photos and interviews with twenty diverse American families formed through interracial relationships or transracial adoption.
Love Makes a Family: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender People and Their Families
"A family is a bunch of people, or not so many, who love each other," explains seven year old Liza, who has two moms. Liza's family is one among twenty families represented in this exhibit of diverse families with GLBT dads or moms, grandparents, and/or young adults. This exhibit combats homophobia by presenting diverse images of GLBT people and their families.
Nothing to Hide: Mental Illness in the Family
This photo-text exhibit presents photographs and interviews with twenty families whose lives are affected by schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, major depression, anxiety disorders, and other brain disorders. Nothing to Hide gives people coping with mental illness and their families an opportunity to come out of the shadows and into public awareness in order to fight the stigma of mental illness.
Each exhibit copy consists of 20 framed and ready-to-hang photographs (16"x 20"). Ready-to-hang laminated text panels (edited interviews with all family members) accompany each family portrait.
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History
Family Diversity Projects is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by photographer, Gigi Kaeser, and writer, Peggy Gillespie. Together they have created four traveling photo-text exhibits which have toured the country to great acclaim.
Peggy Gillespie is a freelance writer who has written cover stories and feature articles for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Redbook, Yoga Journal, and New Age Magazine among others. She is the co-author of Less Stress (Signet) and the autobiography of dancer/choreographer, Bill. T. Jones entitled Last Night on Earth (Pantheon).
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Honors
Family Diversity Projects has received numerous awards for their exhibits and books. |
Contact
Family Diversity Projects Inc.
PO Box 1246
Amherst, MA
01004
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Artist Location
Amherst, MA
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Type of artist
Editor, Writer, Other
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General Themes
Activism/Social Justice, Disability, Sexuality, Mental Health/Psychology, Families/Parenting |
Keywords
Sexuality
Feminism/Gender Issues
Economic/Class Issues
Education
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| Last updated on January 27th, 2004 |
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