Darkness Into Life and Family Matters: LGBTQ Youth Perspectives

Family Matters: LGBTQ Youth Perspectives, photographs by Carolyn Sherer highlights LGBTQ youth in the Deep South and the challenges and triumphs they face in society with and without the support of their families. The exhibition premiered at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in the spring of 2014, and has been shown at Art Basel in Miami and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, as well as many other institutions. It is part of the Magic City Acceptance Center’s permanent collection. The project was made possible in part by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. (On view in the Burrow Museum through mid-December 2022.)

Darkness into Life – A traveling exhibition from the Alabama Holocaust Education Center.  This sensitive exhibit of photography and art, captured on a series of banners, offers a special glimpse into the private memories of 20 Alabama Holocaust survivors from eight countries, revealing stories of childhoods past, lost family and friends, despair and sadness, cruelty beyond belief, bravery, the joys of liberation, and new lives in Alabama. Through 78 bold and thought-provoking images accompanied by educational narratives and maps, one gains a richer understanding of the history of the Holocaust and its impact on these individuals and their families. (On loan to The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State through January 2023, and currently on view in the Burrow Center.)