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Art Against the Wall, Brownsville, Texas


Funerary Wreath Target  (10′ x’10’ x 8″), 2009
I made this large-scale funerary wreath to address all of the loss that takes place at the U.S. Mexico Border. It is constructed out of materials traditionally used for funerary wreaths in the Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico area. The Wreath Target was placed on the wall in Alice Wilson Hope Park in Brownsville, Texas on February 26. Hope Park is also marked with an historical marker as the beginning of the Chisholm Trail and is an overlook for the Gateway International Bridge.

The two photos above are of Hope Park before the Border Fence was built.

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New Southern Cultures Publication


Southern Cultures Journal

Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2010

E-ISSN: 1534-1488 Print ISSN: 1068-8218
DOI: 10.1353/scu.0.0099

Susan Harbage Page
Bernard L. Herman
Longing: Personal Effects from the Border
Southern Cultures – Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2010, pp. 31-45




The University of North Carolina Press

Project MUSE – Southern Cultures – Longing: Personal Effects from the Border Project MUSE Journals Southern Cultures Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2010 Longing: Personal Effects from the Border Southern Cultures Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2010 E-ISSN: 1534-1488 Print ISSN: 1068-8218 DOI: 10.1353/scu.0.0099 LongingPersonal Effects from the Border Susan Harbage Page and Bernard L. Herman Susan Harbage Page’s portfolio, Longing: Personal Effects from the Border, is an intervention — at once aesthetic, archaeological, and archival — into the spaces and objects associated with the great migration north across the Rio Grande and into the United States. Page’s images are visual conversations about the material culture of the immigrant experience and compel us to consider how we see ourselves through seeing others. Images of a deflated inner tube dropped by the road, a wallet mired, its contents spilling into the mud, footsteps revealed in soft earth, and river-wet clothes wrung, wadded, and cast aside document ordinary…


read it at Project Muse
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A Portrait of Greenville

A Portrait of Greenville
February 27–September 26, 2010
The Greenville County Museum of Art welcomes the second decade of the twenty-first century with a multifaceted look at our hometown, featuring paintings by Stephen Scott Young, photographs by Susan Harbage Page and new commissioned works by nationally known painters and noted Southern artists. On view through October 31, 2010.

This exhibition will include works from Susan Harbage Page’s “Surrendered Lives” commissioned by the Museum in 2002. Page photographed a cross-section of women at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, an institution dedicated to the teaching and propagation of its fundamentalist Christian beliefs.

Greenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, South Carolina, 29601
864-271-7570
http://www.greenvillemuseum.org/