MIDDLETOWN — After Sept. 11, 2001, Susan Slater-Tanner made a promise to herself that she would go down every year to Ground Zero until the doors reopened.
When she goes, she records what she sees through photography to “share it with our audience.”
Her audience is her annual exhibit of photographs documenting the progress at the site. The exhibit, entitled Eleven Years of Progress: Eleven Years of Reflection, continues her remembrance and is “a light at the end of the tunnel since the building is going up and the memorial with all its controversy is there,” she said in the SUNY Orange press release announcing her show. “Quite different from any other year… emotionally overwhelming. One would think it would get easier each year - it just gets harder and so painfully real.”
Slater-Tanner, who lives in the Town of Warwick, is an assistant professor at SUNY Orange where she teaches art history, modern art, history of animation, as well as color and design art courses. She is well-known in the community-at-large as she is a sought-after lecturer.
Essential information
This year the exhibit is being shown in Orange Hall Gallery Loft from Sept. 10 through 28. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
A short reception with the artist is scheduled from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Sept. 27.
The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
Orange Hall is located on the SUNY Orange campus at the corner of Wawayanda and Grandview avenues, Middletown.
For more information, e-mail (cultural@sunyorange.edu), call (845-341-4891) or visit online (www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs)