These tendencies are clear in her Accultured exhibit, which is currently on display in the second floor art gallery of the College of Health and Human Services. A reception that is free and open to the public is scheduled for Tuesday, September 23 from 4-6 p.m. in the gallery. Parking will be free in lot 104.
According to Pye, the works in the two-part Accultured portray her engagement “in an internal debate about identity, patriotism, and my individual trajectory as a Brazilian immigrant.” The five pieces in the Assimilation segment of the exhibit, she says, “express much of my identity decay in the first ten years of living in the United States.
The Integration portion of the exhibit consists of elements symbolizing the fulfillment of her integration process. Regarding the exhibit she states, “I am pleased to have compiled a visual discourse that is both self-critical and self-affirming, as I share my work in joy and celebration of achieving a cultural identity that is fully and wonderfully integrated.
Pye is currently a therapist in Kalamazoo and Otsego and works regularly in her art studio at the Park Trades Center in Kalamazoo.
Accultured will be on exhibit until October 17 and the WMU Campus community and the general public are invited to view the exhibit from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with the exception of Saturdays, September 20 and October 4. For more information, contact Gay Walker at gay.walker@wmich.edu or (269) 387-3839.