Your grandma’s an immigrant

March is National Women’s History Month, and Viewpoint Photographic Art Center curated this month’s show of women to coincide with it. But the timeliness of the subject of immigration in Sara Friedlander’s Birds of Im/Migration—well, that’s always been relevant. The spotlight on immigration right now is brighter than it has been for a while, and as a country, we have a long history of discriminating the group du jour. Friedlander’s work, however, mixes photographs of women from the early 1900s with her own landscape photography and paint for a three-dimensional display to honor those women who left everything behind to build a better life—I think that’s called the American spirit.

Also showing in the gallery this month are works by Jan Cordova Manzi and Kendall Isotalo.