Images from southern Mexico now in Gifford Gallery
RANDOLPH, July 31, 2008 – Images from the streets of southern Mexico are on display in the Gifford Medical Center art gallery.
Former Randolph Center resident Amelia Lincoln traveled and volunteered at the Center of Hope for street children in Oaxaca and the Casa San Jose orphanage in Colima, both in southern Mexico. While there, Lincoln documented her experiences and photographed the culture and people she came to know and care about.
It is these photographs of the children, culture and streets she encountered that are on display in the Gifford Gallery.
They depict communities and landscape far different from her own. Lincoln grew up on a dairy farm in Randolph Center. She went on to join the U.S. Coast Guard after high school serving in Ketchikan, Alaska and Boston, Mass. She later studied history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and now teaches junior high social studies in Plainfield, N.H., where she lives with her husband, fellow photographer James Patterson.
A portion of the proceeds of print sales from Lincoln’s show at Gifford will be donated to the Center of Hope and Casa San Jose. Her exhibit runs through Sept. 10.
The Gifford Gallery is just inside the main entrance of the Randolph hospital at 44 S. Main St. Call Gifford at (802) 728-7000 for more information.