Mankiw Gallery Launches First Show

In March, Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall’s Mankiw Gallery launched its first exhibit featuring the work of photographer Kristin Chalmers.  The exhibit received an outstanding response, including a packed opening night, and coverage in media outlets including The Boston Globe.

The exhibit is titled The Broad Spectrum Project: Looking Through the Window of Autism, and features photographs Chalmers took while collaborating with the Camphill Special Schools in Phoenixville Pennsylvania, a residential school for children and young adults with profound Autism and other disabilities.

“I have been going to the Camphill Special Schools for over a year and a half documenting the life at this amazing school,” said Chalmers.  “My passion is to photograph people of all ages with autism.”

Opening night of the exhibit received over sixty guests, and led to an article in The Boston Globe profiling Chalmers and her work.  Read the full Boston Globe article here.

Chalmers will use proceeds from the show to purchase 18 to 20 point and shoot cameras for the students living on the young adult campus of the Camphill Special School, fund her visits to Camphill, and give back to the charity Autism Speaks.

To see the exhibit, visit the Mankiw Gallery during open hours at the CH-CH Commons between 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. or by appointment. Please send appointment requests to cludlam@chch.org.  Visit the CH-CH website for more information about the Mankiw Gallery or to submit your own artwork for consideration in a future exhibit.

See more photos from the Broad Spectrum on Kristin Chalmers’ website.