Fourth Estate Newspaper

Issue date: 9/18/08 Section: Entertainment

Media Credit: Jason Houge Stan Strembicki, a professor of digital imaging and photography at Washington University in St. Louis, photographed the destruction left after Katrina hit New Orleans in his series "Memory Loss." He photographed the remains of waterlogged photo albums lost in the disaster.

UW-Green Bay welcomes the art of Stan Strembicki and audio works of Helena White to Lawton Gallery in Theatre Hall, from Sept. 11 to Oct. 2, to engage students, faculty and staff about Hurricane Katrina.
Stephen Perkins, academic curator of art at UWGB, has the responsibility of planning the art gallery. He saw the resume of Strembicki and was impressed.
"For me it was a real hit because Strembicki didn't just go down to New Orleans after the disaster but continued to be involved with that city for multiple years," Perkins said.
There are different elements to the show, with two main series of works at the showing.
There is a 22 photograph documentary of urban landscapes and the damage that was done by Katrina and the flood thereafter.
"There are not people in any of the photos, which makes it a very desolate image, and powerful," Perkins said.
Nine other works from a different section of Strembicki's New Orleans pictures were photographed.
"These are very intimate photographs of the African American community and their families," Perkins said. "Marriage, portraits, children and friends which make it interconnect to work with the desolate, urban photos."
Audio works by Helena White will also be available at the art show. A program of interviews about victims of the hurricane and its aftermath will be set up to listen to. There is also a one-hour prerecorded radio show of a female doctor.
The doctor was a medical director of a juvenile jail in New Orleans. She talks about how she evacuated the jail, what happened when she helped out at Louisiana State University, and her work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"She's recently been working in Baton Rouge in FEMA trailer parks where people have been living for the past two to two and a half years," White said.

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