
"Indivisible: Stories of American Community at the
Akron Art Museum"
By Ken Mann
Reprinted with permission from Digital Camera Magazine
Dec. 18, 2000 — "Indivisible: Stories of American Community" is on exhibit through 2/25/01 at
the Akron Art Museum. Indivisible is a national documentary project on community life
in America presenting through photographs and recorded voices, twelve communities —
from Delray Beach, Florida, to Ithaca, New York; the North Pacific Coast of Alaska to
Chicago's Southwest side; the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to the Yaak Valley, Montana.
The result is a traveling exhibition, a touring free postcard exhibit, a book, and a website.
The project co-directors and staff members selected communities where they found local
ingenuity to be at work—not twelve model communities. The project co-directors (Tom
Rankin of the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and Trudy Wilner Stack
of the University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography) and staff gave all of the
photographers and interviewers an introductory overview of Indivisible's broad intent and
then allowed for his or her interpretation in the representation of each community. The
website has twelve "galleries" representing work at each of the communities.
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