The Museum is pleased to open a new exhibit exploring themes from the The Namesake (by Jhumpa Lahiri, 2003), the cornerstone of our National Endowment for the Arts Big Read in 2019. With Guest Community Curator Koeli Goel, From the Subcontinent to the Prairie: Stories of Immigration and Identity features objects and photographs loaned by members of campus and Champaign-Urbana South Asian and South Asian-American communities.
Also on display are The Indian American Experience in Chicago from the National Indo-American Museum and Memories and Milestones from the South Asian American Policy and Research Institute.
For other Big Read events, visit go.illinois.edu/TheNamesake.
