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Lifeways: A Journey Through Survival to Advocacy

Presented by NDSU Memorial Union Gallery at NDSU Memorial Union

October 11-October 28, 2011

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Nobuko Oyabu Award-Winning Photojournalist exhibiting at the MU Gallery.

Lifeways: A Journey Through Survival to Advocacy will be on display to bring awareness to stories of survival of abuse and sexual assault in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Award-Winning Photojournalist, Nobuko Oyabu will have an exhibit of work sponsored by the North Dakota Council on Abused Women’s Services/Coalition Against Sexual Assault at the North Dakota State University Memorial Union Gallery. The exhibit is titled “Lifeways: A Journey Through Survival to Advocacy” and is a photo essay featuring Native Americans from nations throughout North and South Dakota.

The photos depict the journey of healing: from victim to survivor to advocate. The viewer will experience the interconnectedness of all living things, one being to another and one generation to the next. Oyabu shows viewers that hurt of one is the hurt of all, and the honor of one is the honor of all. The story begins with restoring the Sacred to all their relationships, starting with the self, then the family, the community, their Nations and Humanity.

Oyabu strived to capture the spirit of the process of change as well as to highlight the individual stories that she encountered. She is a native of Japan and has a degree in Photojournalism from Columbia College Chicago. Her work focuses on using her own experiences as well as photography to communicate with survivors on a level she had never imagined. . Her unique 20” X 16” photographs will be on display October 7 – October 28 in the Memorial Union Gallery. An exhibit reception will be held at noon on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 with a talk by Linda Isaakson, who worked with Oyabu. Isaakson will share how and why the project was conducted in our state and the importance it has to create awareness via photojournalism.

If you have any questions, please contact Esther Hockett or Amy Nash at the Memorial Union Gallery.

http://www.ndsu.edu/mu/programs/gallery/exhibits_and_artists/

http://nobukoonline.com/