Objects in this exhibition bear witness to people, encounters, and entanglements in American communities. They document makers and consumers, and they illustrate a global story that crosses gender, racial, cultural, social, and geographic boundaries.  


Click on each work to bear witness to their stories. On each object’s page, you will find tabs coordinating to the story, the voices, and the resources that pertain to the object. The voices page revolves around responses to the object and we invite you to participate in this endeavor by way of question boxes that correlate to each object. The resources page gives opportunity to do further research into each object.