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Family Diversity Projects, a non-profit organization in Amherst,
MA, has created five award-winning traveling photo-text rental exhibits that tour
communities nationwide and internationally.
Our exhibits are perfect for diversity events in your:
- Schools (K-12)
- Colleges
- Corporations & Workplaces
- Libraries
- Houses of Worship
- Hospitals
- Mental health centers
- Conferences
- Museums
- Diversity Events
- Community Events
By educating people of all ages to recognize, support, and celebrate the full
range of diversity, our traveling exhibits are designed to help reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and harassment of all people who are perceived to be "different" from
the "norm."
Family Diversity Projects also provides speakers on diversity and workshop leaders for conferences and exhibit venues.
How to bring our rental exhibits to your community
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Funding
Funding for Of Many Colors has been provided over the years by the following:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Frances R. Dewing Foundation
The Holder Family Foundation
The Patrick-Murray Inaugural Committee
The Wasserman Foundation
Many Generous Individual Donors
Thank you to our funders!
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Photos by Gigi Kaeser
Interviews by Peggy Gillespie
Exhibit Description |
Companion Book |
Testimonials |
Tour Schedule
Exhibit History |
Advisory Board
Exhibit Description
Of Many Colors includes photographs and interviews with 20 families
(children, teens, and adults) who have bridged the racial divide through interracial
relationships and/or adoption. In a world where race is considered by many to
be a formidable barrier between people, the families in this traveling exhibit have
discovered richness and value in diversity. This exhibit of multiracial families has a great deal to teach
about racial identity and racism. Of Many Colors is also available in a
beautiful companion book (featuring over 40 families) published by the University
of Massachusetts Press.
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Exhibit Scholarships Available
Thanks to the generous grant given to Family Diversity Projects by the Baxter Foundation K & F Baxter Family Foundation in 2010, we are able to offer partial and full scholarships to schools wishing to show this exhibit. We never turn anyone down based on finances.
Read more about the K & F Baxter Family Foundation.
To be considered for a scholarship please contact us.
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Companion Book
"I was very moved by this book ... it is effective both because it is important scholarship and because
it contains such profoundly moving human stories. By letting the members of these families speak for
themselves, the author and photographer capture the diversity of their experiences. I especially like
the fact that even the children are allowed to speak their mind; after all it is they who are often the
undeserving recipients of bigotry."
- Sonia Nieto
Author, Affirming Diversity
info and to order:
university of massachusetts press
amazon.com
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Testimonials
Download Full Versions of Testimonial Letters
"Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing us to bring such beautiful and moving work to the students
of our University. Everyone who viewed the exhibit saw a bit of themselves in the photos and was able to
connect with the message. I will never forget the images of administrators and students standing with
tears in their eyes reviewing yet again the piece which spoke to them personally. We cannot wait to have
another one of your touching photo essays here at the University."
- Susan Stuart
Coordinator, Intercultural Resource Center
Columbia University
"The exhibit was spectacular because of its comprehensive, warm and powerful depiction of families.
I watched people rushing down the hall, slowing and stopping, and then standing for long periods of
time gazing at the photographs and reading the words of the families shown in the pictures. I saw
parents and children spending time together as they read the text and discussed the pictures. So many
people called to thank me for sponsoring the exhibit. We miss having the exhibit, and I really believe
that it has already made a significant contribution to our collective understanding of each other. I
hope that it will continue to be available in a wide range of settings. I wish we could continue to
have it available all of the time!"
- Peg Scholtes
Executive Director, Family Enhancement Health and Family Center
Madison, WI
"The exhibit was a wonderful addition to the 324th annual session of the Yearly Meeting of the
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The power and effect of the exhibit far exceeded any
expectations that I had. It turned a mostly straight, white gathering into one where diversity
and multiracial families became a focal point. As people studied your display, there was more
concentration than at a museum full of art masterpieces."
- David Zarembka
Co-Convenor, Quaker Meeting of Baltimore
"I am writing as the Coordinator of a project that brought ... Of Many Colors
... to Newton,
Massachusetts public schools during the fall and winter of 1998. To summarize the impact it had
in a few words: the viewers were curious, excited, interested; they found their existing ideas
reinforced, or challenged, or extended; they often wanted to know more and made connections with
their own lives. Of Many Colors ... is obviously a terrific educational bonus for schools in States
that are already racially and culturally diverse; but I believe it is equally important for others.
It can only have a positive impact nationwide."
- Susan Thomas
Tour Schedule (Partial List)
In order to meet demand, multiple copies of this photo-text rental exhibit were created. If your desired booking date appears below it does not mean the exhibit is unavailable. Please contact us to arrange your exhibition. For exact locations and times of a showing, please contact the people listed below.
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Dates
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Contact
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Jan 12 - Feb 12
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Woodlynde School, Strafford, PA
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kelly@woodlynde.org
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Jan 15 - Feb 15
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Simmons College School of Social Work, Boston, MA
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thomas.harrigan@simmons.edu
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Jan 15 - 23
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Watkinson School, Hartford, CT
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diane_weinholtz@watkinson.org
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Jan 15 - 30
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First Unitarian Church of Dallas, Texas
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dkanter@dallasuu.org
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Feb 2 - 13
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Gulf Coast Community College, Panama City, FL
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awalls@gulfcoast.edu
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Feb 15 - 27
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Pinnacle Charter School, Buffalo, NY
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srochelle@pinnaclewny.org
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Apr 16 - May 6
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Tomah Area School District, Tomah, WI
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gaylel@tomah.k12.wi.us
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Exhibit History
Of Many Colors has traveled to hundreds of venues.
It has been featured in USA Weekend, PTA Magazine, Teaching Tolerance Magazine,
and was featured in a cover story in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Here are just a few of the
sites it has visited:
Schools, Libraries, and Museums
- Framingham Public Schools, MA
- Amherst, MA Public Schools
- Newton MA Public Schools
- Newton MA Public Library
- St. Louis Public Library
- Holyoke Children's Museum
Colleges
- University of New Hampshire
- Hampshire College
- St. Mary's College, IN
- University of Northern Iowa
- South Seattle Community College, WA
- University of Pennsylvania, PA
- Penn State, PA
- University of Wisconsin
- Smith College
- Mt. Holyoke College
- Wellesley College
- Amherst College
- University of Purdue
- Kansas University Medical Center, KS
- St. John's University, NY
- Central Oregon Community College, OR
- University of N. Iowa, IA
- University of Puget Sound, WA
Advisory Board
Ellen Hofheimer Bettmann
Brooklyn, NY
Anti-Bias Education Consultant
EHB Consulting
Debra Chasnoff
Berkeley, CA
Women’s Educational Media
Helen Cohen
Berkeley, CA
Women’s Educational Media
Ramona E. Douglass
San Francisco, CA
President, Association of MultiEthnic Americans
Rodney Glasgow
Worcester, MA
Director of Diversity, Worcester Academy
Bill T. Jones
New York, NY
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Sonia Nieto, Ph.D.
Amherst, MA
Author, Affirming Diversity
Ekene Nwokoye
Medford, MA
Student, Tufts University
Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D.
Seattle, WA
Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies
University of Washington
Author, Racially Mixed People in America
Lynn Sullivan
Dean of Community Affairs
King & Low Heywood Thomas School, Stamford, CT
Lorraine Tiven
Albany, NY
National Director of Peer Education
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
B. J. Winchester
Orange Park, FL
President, Unity
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