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FACES OF LABOR: WORDS AND IMAGES
A portrait exhibit by artist Bruce Bundock ’08
Bruce Bundock’s portraits of a small number of students from The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies at SUNY Empire State College is pictured at top. In the introduction to the “Face of Labor” catalogue, Michael Merrill, Ph.D. (Columbia University) writes. “When I look at them, I see a new world. I know that the young men and women portrayed are electrician apprentices, plumber apprentices and public school classroom aides. But their faces rarely betray their trades. There are far more women building circuits and laying pipe in this group, and far more men caring for young and sometimes frail children, than I would have guessed. Moreover, even when correctly placed in their appropriate nontraditional niche, I found myself mistaking them. The trades do not exhaust the persons. There are far more artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and members of various boards in this group than I imagine the uninitiated viewer is likely to expect.”
For a fuller description of the Faces of Labor Portraits exhibit, please download/read the full catalogue.
Faces of Vassar
All portraits in private collections.
The artist with NYS Attorney General Letitia James who spoke at the opening of “Faces of Labor.”
The artist working on location with one of the trade apprentices featured in “Faces of Labor.
