Silver Eye

Join exhibiting artist Vivian Poey for a participatory artist talk exploring themes of migration, history and memory.

As part of this event, visitors will be invited to join the artist in making paper boats. By joining in conversation together, visitors will be invited to reflect on and share their personal stories of migration and belonging. The paper boats will become part of the artist's installation at Silver Eye Center for Photography.

Participating Artist

1. Vivian Poey is an artist and educator in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work examines a number of issues ranging from migration and cultural assimilation to the passing of time. She is a US citizen, born in Mexico of Cuban parents and lived in Guatemala and Colombia before moving to the U.S. This complicated trajectory informs all of her work, which serves as a method of investigation, and includes photography, installation and performance. Her work focuses on personal and historical narratives, especially those dealing with cultural identities, memory and displacement.

   Vivian’s work has been exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions and has been featured in publications such as Fraction Magazine. In addition to her art practice, she has served as a juror and curator for several exhibitions, including Crossing Borders: personal narratives of immigration at the Sandra and Phillip Gordon Gallery at the Boston Arts Academy and the Parker Gallery at Lesley University. Vivian has also worked extensively at the intersection of arts and education, has co-authored and co-edited books including the most recent Art as a Way of Listening: Centering Student and Community Voices in Language Learning and Cultural Revitalization. She is the recipient of the 2017 Massachusetts Art Education Association Higher-Educator of the Year Award.

   Vivian Poey teaches Photography and Integrated Studies at the Lesley College of Art + Design.