<h4 style="text-align: center;">November 17 – January 13, 2018</h4>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">Reception: Friday, November 17, 5:30–8 pm</h4>
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Exploring real sites/locations as points of personal and collective meaning, Ron Abrams is an artist and curator who works with metaphor and symbolism. He is a master printmaker and Associate Professor of Art and Queer Studies at Denison University where he has taught since 1995.

<span class="attrlink url author-d-4z65zz66zl57z75zyiz66zfr2fz87zwz89znuiz88zis4z67zprz77z2z86zkuz81z5gm9z66zz88zvz85zz68zz75zz85zz84z0z69zz65zu"><a class="attrlink" href="#" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" data-target-href="#">[1]</a></span><span class="author-d-4z65zz66zl57z75zyiz66zfr2fz87zwz89znuiz88zis4z67zprz77z2z86zkuz81z5gm9z66zz88zvz85zz68zz75zz85zz84z0z69zz65zu"> Andres Torres, </span><span class="author-d-4z65zz66zl57z75zyiz66zfr2fz87zwz89znuiz88zis4z67zprz77z2z86zkuz81z5gm9z66zz88zvz85zz68zz75zz85zz84z0z69zz65zu"><i>The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora</i></span>

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<span class="author-d-4z65zz66zl57z75zyiz66zfr2fz87zwz89znuiz88zis4z67zprz77z2z86zkuz81z5gm9z66zz88zvz85zz68zz75zz85zz84z0z69zz65zu">La exhibición se centra en el grabado pero incluye escultura, animación, y libros en una instalación sobre la intersección de la identidad gay, latina, de lugar, etc.
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