Pictures of Working Life Taken by Working Hands

Opening Reception June 14 from 6pm to 8pm

NY State Museum Cultural Education Center of the Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY
On Madison Avenue, across the Plaza from the State Capitol Building

Photos will be on display from June 2 to October 21

Unseenamerica NYS is an innovative arts project that gives workers, immigrants and refugees the tools to document their own experience and describe their worlds with the assistance of professional photographers. The program embodies the transformative power of looking, for a moment, through another's eyes. The goal is to amplify the creativity and vision of voices that often go unheard, and to use artistic expression as an exercise in democracy with the integration of these voices into the larger social and cultural fabric of the nation.

Unseenamerica NYS: Pictures of Working Life Taken by Working Hands will feature photographs and stories by healthcare workers, tractor-trailer drivers, janitors, security guards, teachers, immigrants from India and Peru, refugees from Burma, Bosnia, Darfur, Somalia and scores of others. We hope you join us on June 14 to celebrate the lives of workers in New York State!

Unseenamerica NYS is a collaboration of the Workforce Development Institute, NYS AFL-CIO and Bread and Roses Cultural Project of 1199SEIU. For more information contact Zoeann Murphy: 518.272.3500 or unseenamerica@wdiny.org, www.wdiny.com.