As nostalgia is both an individual and collectivist experience, I decided that a diary of our connections and thoughts about the pieces from the Coe Center would best show how we settled on the theme of nostalgia. Asking each curator to write an entry, how their nostalgia came forward from a piece, and putting them together in a collective diary demonstrates that even though we have different experiences we are constantly looking backwards while we move forward in our lives. Like the birchbark diary you will find in our exhibition, one piece of history can hold many memories. 

 This exhibition is my last one and I feel in today’s society, one of the most important. As this exhibition focuses on our shared nostalgia and how interconnected we all are, hopefully it shows you that our pasts and our histories need to be reflected on, remembered, rather than hidden away and ignored. Meeting with Santa Fe artists and learning about cultures from around the world puts into perspective how much we need to embrace the good and bad of all our pasts, in order to move forward a little wiser and more open to stories not our own.