An idyllic California landscape painting with a prison nestled in the distance greets the visitors as they enter the California Museum of Photography in the fourth stop of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project.  The traveling exhibition was curated by students from eleven universities across the country to raise contemporary issues, such as incarceration, national security,…

A class of 8th grade students from St. Richard’s Episcopal School in Indianapolis, Indiana visited the Guantánamo Public Memory Project’s traveling exhibit earlier this month as part of an assignment to debate the future of the base. Teacher Andrea Neal delivered the lesson to the U.S. History class of 21 students because she wanted them…

UCR ARTSblock presents “Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag”, on view at the California Museum of Photography from June 1 through September 7, 2013.   Presented on two floors of the California Museum of Photography, “Geographies of Detention” offers a nuanced investigation into incarceration and its architectures. One portion of the exhibition highlights work by…

Before our Indianapolis reception for the opening of the GPMP exhibit, I was concerned that people would not be thinking of GTMO. I couldn’t have been more wrong. During our preparations for the April 10 event, the internet was ablaze with the word “Guantánamo” because invitations had been circulated among fashion circles for a Coachella…

Nicknamed GTMO, the United States naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has a history that is infamous and yet unknown to most Americans. The traveling exhibit of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project confronts this history at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Cultural Arts Gallery through May 12, 2013. Developed by more than 100 students from the IU School of Liberal Arts…

Nicknamed GTMO, the United States naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has a history that is infamous and yet unknown to most Americans. A new traveling exhibit running April 10 through May 12, 2013 at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Cultural Arts Gallery reveals that history. Developed by more than 100 students from the IU…

An article recently published in Connection, a magazine of the University of West Florida, interviewed UWF students and former residents of Guantánamo about their involvement in the Guantánamo Public Memory Project. Professor Patrick Moore led the team of students as they collected stories from former GTMO residents to contribute to the Project. As Sarah McCartan, the author…

In 2012, students at 11 universities around the country joined together as part of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project and asked: what can GTMO’s history tell us about what’s happening now—there, and here at home? They dug through historical and visual archives; talked to people who worked there, lived there, or were detained there; and explored…

The traveling exhibit of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project is now open for viewing at Rutgers’s Mabel Smith Douglass Library in New Brunswick, New Jersey from February 18 to March 29. Rutgers’s undergraduate student newspaper The Daily Targum, the oldest of its kind in the nation, has published an article explaining the role of Rutgers faculty…

Opening at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life Windows Gallery December 13, 2012 and traveling to 9 sites (and counting) across the country through at least 2014, the exhibit explores GTMO’s history from US occupation in 1898 to today’s debates and visions for its future. The exhibit was developed through a unique collaboration among a growing number of…