‘Photography by Diana Velasco: Two Nationalities’ opens at Museum of Danish America
Opening events planned for new museum exhibition; artist to give gallery talks –
The Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn, Iowa will present Photography by Diana Velasco: Two Nationalities from November 28, 2014 – March 15, 2015. This exhibition presents a series of photographs exploring individuals who grew up with parents of two different nationalities – as Velasco herself did, with a Danish mother and Spanish father. The exhibition is organized by the Denmark Immigration Museum outside of Copenhagen. The exhibition will also feature an artist-in-residency project that will involve the community members of Elk Horn and result in another exhibition, Sense of Place, to be opened at the museum in May 2015. Support for this exhibition and for the artist-in-residency comes from the Iowa Arts Council.
Photography by Diana Velasco: Two Nationalities will open at the museum during the Danish Villages’ annual Christmas celebration of Julefest on the Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving. The museum, its Genealogy Center, and its historic house museum, Bedstemor’s House, will have free admission on November 28 and 29, 2014. Special refreshments and activities will be held during those dates as well. The artist herself will give gallery talks about the exhibition in the main floor gallery throughout the celebration days.
The museum will have four different exhibits open throughout the winter months, including Exploring Danish Happiness, which looks into the reasons why Denmark is consistently ranked as “one of the happiest countries on Earth.”
For more information, visit the museum’s website, danishmuseum.org or call (712) 764-7001.
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