CANTON — The St. Lawrence University opening of Sewn in Protest, an exhibit of Chilean arpilleras, will take place at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 4, at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, located in Griffiths Art Center, 23 Romoda Drive in Canton.

The event is free and open to the public.

This exhibit is part of a dual-campus, student-faculty research team, which is presenting the Chilean patchwork tapestries, or arpilleras, through the display of two bilingual North Country museum exhibits.

The first showing began on Feb. 14 at SUNY Potsdam’s Gibson Gallery.

On March 4, St. Lawrence’s Arts Collaborative will sponsor a keynote talk by renowned memory scholar Katherine Hite, professor of political science at Vassar College, in Griffiths Arts Center, room 123.

Her talk is titled, “Memorializing in Movement: Chilean Sites of Memory as Spaces of Activism and Imagination.” The talk will be followed by a catered reception from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Brush Art Gallery, featuring Chilean folk music by the Caramelo Trio and work by Violeta Parra and Victor Jara. 

International muralist Francisco Letelier will also deliver a talk at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27, in Griffiths 123.

For more information, contact 315-229-5174 or visit www.stlawu.edu/gallery and www.forgingmemory.org.