Since February 1, 2006, staff and visitors have been impacted by the Gathering In the Stories installation envisioned and created by Jim Lee and Leah Sobsey and on display in the lower level of the Morris Clinic Building at Duke South. Coordination of this project and funding was made possible through the efforts of HAND (Health Arts Network at Duke, now known as Arts & Health at Duke). This installation chronicled the lives of members of the Duke University Health System community who have felt the impact of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.
Due to deterioration of the installation and building code changes, Duke University Health System will de-install this exhibit in June 2016. The collection will then permanently reside within the Duke Medical Archives.
Because of its impact on the Duke community and beyond, we have dedicated this page to document this installation and its impact.
You can see archives of images with some active links here.
You can click on each name under “exhibit” and view their personal stories by clicking on the large black and white portraits. Some of the stories tell of social turmoil, other of quiet self-discovery. In some, people change the world; in others, the world changes them. These stories remind us that change is made possible by the courageous responses of ordinary people.
