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N.Y. Sen. Ray Meier poses before the

Adair and N.Y. Sen. Ray Meier Open "Missing Story of Ourselves" Exhibit in Albany

Photo Exhibit at State Capitol Will Be Open for One Week

February 8, 2006  Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and N.Y. State Sen. Ray Meier (47th district) spoke before a large group of New York State legislators, New York State Lieutenant Governor Mary Donohue, policy advisors, researchers, faculty from the state University of Albany and administrators from the State Budget office in Albany on Feb. 7. They gave their talk during a reception that opened the gallery exhibit of "The Missing Story of Ourselves," at the State Capitol Building. The photo exhibit will be on display there for one week.
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The exhibit in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library of UW.

Adair Lectures at University of Washington

In Conjunction With Photo Exhibit, The Missing Story of Ourselves

January 25, 2006  Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and director of the ACCESS Project, gave a lecture in conjunction with the photo exhibit "The Missing Story of Ourselves" at the University of Washington, Seattle, on Jan. 19. The exhibit is on display at Odegaard Undergraduate Library through Jan. 30. It includes museum quality, framed color photographs and narratives created by women and men who either are, or were, poor parents and students changing their lives through the pathway of higher education in the United States.
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Adair and ACCESS Students Present at Sarah Lawrence Conference

"Women's Stories/Women's Lives: Making Sense of Experience"

March 7, 2005  Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Associate Professor of Women's Studies and director of the ACCESS project, and four ACCESS students comprised the plenary panel at Women's Stories, Women's Lives: Making Sense of Experience, a conference held March 4-5 at Sarah Lawrence College. Their panel was titled "The Missing Story of Ourselves." The students on the panel were Paulette Brown, Nolita Clark, Rose Cotrich Perez and Shannon Stanfield. The purpose of the conference was to seek to understand women's lives by examining the stories they tell about themselves and others. More ...

The exhibit in St. Louis.

Adair Lectures at Three Colleges on "The Missing Story of Ourselves"

Lecture in Conjunction With ACCESS Project Photo Exhibit

November 7, 2005  Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies and director of the ACCESS Project at Hamilton College, gave lectures during October at Lafayette College, St. Louis University and North Seattle College. Her talk, "The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education" was delivered at each college in conjunction with the ACCESS Project's nationally touring gallery exhibit of the same title. The exhibit consists of 50 color photographs accompanied by brief, compelling narratives that tell the story of single, welfare-eligible parents in their own words and images as they transform their lives through college education. The exhibit will be on display at galleries at each of the colleges for the next month.
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The Missing Story of Ourselves exhibit in Houston.

ACCESS Project Photo Exhibit "The Missing Story of Ourselves" in Houston

Exhibit Features Essays and Photos of ACCESS Students

March 30, 2005  The ACCESS Project's photo exhibit, "The Missing Story of Ourselves" opened at the O'Kane Gallery at the University of Houston, downtown campus, on March 9. More than 200 people attended, including the mayor of Houston, city councilmen, the president and officers of the college and students. The exhibit features photos and essays by ACCESS students that describe the positive impact ACCESS has had on their lives. The ACCESS Project, founded in 2001, is a program designed to provide capable low-income parents in Central New York with a fully-supported introduction to liberal arts education. View photos from the opening. More ...

Photo Exhibit
ACCESS Photo Exhibit in Houston
A nationally touring exhibit of 50 framed, museum quality, color photographs coupled with narratives created by students who are welfare eligible, single parents changing their lives through the pathway of higher education.  The installation presents a unique view of poverty from insiders’ perspectives and reframes the cultural (de)valuations of poor single parents vis-Ă -vis family, work and higher education in the United States today. View the Gallery Guide.