SHARE YOUR FAMILY’S STORY
Our community is rich in cultural diversity. People from all over the world have come to call Rochester “home.” Some of us are new to this area, and some of our families have been here for generations. And yet, regardless of nationality, or where we started from, we all have a story that brought us here. How did your family come to Rochester?
During your visit to My America, we invite you to make photocopies of family photographs, letters and memorabilia documenting your family’s journey. When you have finished copying, write a few sentences underneath the image. Identify the image and why it is important to you and your family. Then add your page to one of the scrapbooks on the shelf to share your story with all exhibition visitors.
Photographs can also be submitted via email to mhamann@mag.rochester.edu. Please send photos in jpeg format, 300 dpi, no larger than 5x7 inches. Please include in the email your name, address, phone number and email address, and a few sentences identifying the image and why it is important to you and your family, and we'll add it to the exhibition scrapbook.
Conditions of Participation
By submitting a photograph, you are agreeing to the following terms:
- The Memorial Art Gallery will not be able to inform contributors when their pictures will be on view, and reserves the right to edit selections as necessary.
- The contributor grants the Memorial Art Gallery the right to reproduce his or her photograph in any form or medium, including on the Internet, and to grant that right to others to publicize the exhibition or the Memorial Art Gallery or its programs.