Berlin Library Art Exhibit Looks At Political Pioneers

Press release from the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library:

Berlin-Peck Memorial Library

BERLIN, CT — The 2020 election and 2021 elections/appointments brought new faces to local, state, and federal governments.

Many of these legislators and appointees are the first in their “group” to be elected or appointed to political office.

They are represented are people from multiple races, genders, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and statuses in society.

A special exhibition on display at the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library, 234 Kensington Road, Berlin, through January, takes a look at those people.

This exhibition tells the stories of some of these political firsts through Glastonbury artist Sarah Schneiderman’s portraits made of non-recyclable trash assemblages.

Many different people made headway in a predominately white male bastion of elected and appointed officials.

The most well-known is Vice President Kamala Harris. Much lesser known is Deqa Dhalac, the country’s first African-born mayor of any city.

To learn more about Sarah and her work at sarahschneiderman.com.

For more information on the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library, click on this link.

This press release was produced by the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.