Verdant Land: Photographs by Kathya Maria Landeros and Mimi Plumb

The Center for Photographic Art is proud to present Verdant Land, a two-person exhibition with award-winning photographers Kathya Maria Landeros and Mimi Plumb. Both artists have deep connections to California and the West and their work overlaps in many ways, visually and historically. Landeros is a visual artist interested in the photographic representation of Latinx and immigrant communities while Plumb traveled up and down the valleys of California photographing the young men living in farm labor camps, the children and adults working together in the fields, and the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) organizers, with Cesar Chavez, talking with farmworkers about how elections in the fields might change their lives. These artists’ sensibilities and their experiences link them together in this powerful exhibition looking at the cultural identity and history of the farmland, the verdant land, of California.