Cocoon Steelton: The Migrations of Many 2019-2023
On top of my drawing: Card from the Ellis Island archives. People walking down the Steelton hill to the steel mill carrying lights.
The drawing above was the beginning in 2019, an idea at the start of the Steelton artwork that is now coming to fruition over several years of interviewing people in Steelton and the steel mill.
From the late 1800’s on people migrated to Steelton to work in the steel mill. They came from Europe and the American South.
“St. Rocco, Croatia”
“The mountain ridges between Charlotte and Charlottesville”
I wanted to find a way to show this migration visually in my artwork during the procession. These places go as far back as people know or can remember. To illuminate an individual’s place(s) lived is showing history, and in a group it becomes the town and mill’s existence.
EVENT DATE
Cocoon Steelton : The Migrations of Many procession and illumination in Steelton, PA is August 31 at sunset honoring upcoming Labor Day.
Find details about this event here
../ more to come