Texas Impact and the Christian Life Commission to Co-Sponsor Photo Exhibit on Ohio Migrant Worker Program in Capitol Gallery

Texas Impact and the Christian Life Commission are proud to present a special exhibition of photographs from Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community.

The photographs will be on display in the North Central Gallery of the Texas Capitol Extension January 27-February 2, and at the First Baptist Church of Austin at 901 Trinity Street February 3-27.

In the context of the national immigration reform debate, Growing Season provides a view of a model guest worker program that is bringing public and private interests together to support legal immigrant workers and family farmers.

In photos and stories, Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community celebrates the work and play of Mexican American and Mexican migrant families in Hartville, Ohio. It documents the religious, medical, familial, and communal experience of these workers–young, old, male, female–and offers readers a success story.

A part of our American landscape, these people and the dedicated, caring group of volunteers who support them teach all of us about dignity and humanity. While set in Ohio, the book has Texas roots, with many of the workers photographed and interviewed coming from Brownsville and other communities along the Texas-Mexico border.
        
“Understanding legal and economic issues concerning migrant labor is important, but it did not help us get to know the individuals who make up this community. Growing Season gives faces and voices to a people more usually portrayed in abstract and generic terms and more often defined by how they fit into a statistical group or political agenda.” —Growing Season photographer Gary Harwood and author David Hassler

Special thanks to our Capitol sponsors Senator Eliot Shapleigh and Representative Richard Raymond.