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2/14/05

ARTIST DISCUSSES 'HOME' THEME OF HER WORK IN TALK AT SLU

CANTON – Artist Siona Benjamin will give a talk titled "Finding Home and 
the Dilemma of Belonging" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 24, in Room 123 
of the Griffiths Arts Center at St. Lawrence University. The event is 
open to the public, free of charge.
	Benjamin, a visiting assistant professor of fine arts at Trinity 
College, will speak about her recent paintings, a series called Finding 
Home that "raise[s] questions about what and where is 'home,' while 
evoking issues such as identity, immigration, motherhood and the role 
of art in social change." Diverse influences from Tantric art, Indian 
miniature paintings, Byzantine icons and Jewish symbolism come together 
in Benjamin's work. Raised Jewish and educated in Catholic and 
Zoroastrian schools while growing up in India, Benjamin has exhibited 
her work throughout the United States, as well as in France, Canada, 
Australia and India.
	For more information, contact Assistant Professor of Fine Arts 
Chandreyi Basu, 315-229-5181.

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