Listen to people from Steelton talk about where their families were from in Europe and the US South. They are some of the 1,000s who migrated to work in the steel mill. Generations later many still work in the mill making steel and railroad track.
The exhibition, Cocoon Steelton : The Migrations of Many, is open now until May 19 at the Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA.
Artist Kate Browne and Portrait Photographer Eric Etheridge
After Cocoon Steelton: The Migrations of Many, preparation for the next exhibition begins, but first a look around the studio.
Past: Cocoon Steelton: The Migrations of Many - from the Lights of Origin procession.
Some of Eric Etheridge’s photographs from Steelton, Cameron Macdonald’s work sheets for me on typeface for places of origin, and a photocopy of an immigration tag from Ellis Island.
Past Project: When Skin Walks with Memory: Goutte d’Or - storyboard panel.
Future Project: Hero’s Hill
Notes
Possible Future Project Location - always start with a map.
Future Project : Hero’s Hill
Future Project : Hero’s Hill
The Dog : Rosie
Past Project : Following the Removals, The Numbered Streets - Model of destroyed home in the neighbohood.
A story from Steelton, a story from the Great Migration. From North Carolina to Pennsylvania, 1956.
I am currently editing my interviews from Steelton for the soundtrack that will play from inside the Cocoon at the procession and lighting in August.
Cocoon Steelton: The Migrations of Many occurs on the evening of Thursday, August 31st, in Steelton, PA. The Lights of Origin Procession begins at 7 PM at the bottom of the Locust Street Staircase. The Illumination of the Cocoon follows the end of the march, in a lot on Front Street, across from the steel mill.
I am currently editing my interviews from Steelton for the soundtrack that will play from inside the Cocoon at the procession and lighting in August. Here’s a short excerpt from one of those interviews, with a Steeltonian, whose mother and family emigrated from Italy to Steelton in 1913.
Cocoon Steelton: The Migrations of Many occurs on the evening of Thursday, August 31st, in Steelton, PA. The Lights of Origin Procession begins at 7 PM at the bottom of the Locust Street Staircase. The Illumination of the Cocoon follows the end of the march, in a lot on Front Street, across from the steel mill. Map and more information here.
Building the soundtrack. Reading the Steelton interviews for a second time. This part of the process is so exciting to me because I get to hear the stories of multiple generations of steelworkers and Steeltonians come to life and be part of history. A record of industry, union organizing and families which is a story that is repeated countless times throughout the history of the United States.
Listen to an excerpt here on Life and Death at the Steel Mill.
