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Branigan Cultural Center (BCC) will open an exhibit titled “Trinity: Legacies of Nuclear Testing - A People’s Perspective” Saturday, July 15, the City of Las Cruces said in a news release.
With collaboration from the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) and 17 juried artists, the exhibit exposes the long-term effects and ramifications of nuclear testing in New Mexico, BCC said. It continues through Sept. 23 at BCC, 501 N. Main St. downtown.
The exhibit’s opening reception is 11 a.m.-1 p.m. July 15 at BCC. It will include musical performances, food and a presentation by TBDC Co-Founder Tina Cordova. TBDC was formed “to bring attention to the negative health effects that plague the communities surrounding the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945,” the news release said.
Artists featured in the exhibit “shed light on the environmental injustices placed on New Mexico downwinder communities – described as persons who live downwind from a nuclear test site,” BCC said. “The exhibit covers the period from the first use of an atomic bomb, at Trinity Test (on White Sands Missile Range) in 1945, to present day.”
The exhibit offers “perspectives, insights and responses of local artists and photojournalists to the effects of nuclear testing, nuclear accidents and uranium mining on the people, animals and environment of New Mexico through a range of media including paintings, sculptures, photography, digital media, and mixed media pieces,” the news release said.
“The goal of the exhibit is to educate the public about the need for New Mexico to be included in the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to bring much needed help to those people of New Mexico who are suffering with the health effects from being overexposed to radiation or who’ve lost their lives as a result,” BCC said.
BCC is open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday. The museum is accessible from RoadRUNNER Transit Route 1 Stop 1.
For more information, call 575-541-2155. Visit www.lascruces.gov/Museums.
