{"id":435,"date":"2026-02-26T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/?p=435"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:07:11","slug":"celebrating-community-through-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/2026\/02\/26\/celebrating-community-through-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Community Through Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Hispanic Voices Exhibit at South Burlington Public Library<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout February and March, the South Burlington Public Library is opening its doors to a powerful celebration of culture, identity, and storytelling. The <em>Hispanic Voices Project<\/em>\u2014a service\u2011learning initiative created by Adriana S\u00e1nchez\u2011Guti\u00e9rrez, Ph.D., lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Cultures\u2014has transformed the library\u2019s gallery space into a living archive of Hispanic life in Vermont. Developed in partnership with Vermont Public Radio, the project brings together portraiture, oral history, and community engagement in a way that feels both intimate and expansive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibit features 29 portraits of Hispanic Vermonters, each one paired with a QR code that invites visitors to listen to the individual\u2019s recorded interview. These stories range from migration journeys and family traditions to reflections on belonging, resilience, and the everyday experiences that shape life in Vermont. Students, faculty, and local residents all play a role in bringing these stories forward, creating a shared space where cultural identity is not only represented but celebrated. The portraits stand as reminders of the diversity within Vermont\u2019s Hispanic community\u2014diversity of countries, generations, professions, and lived experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For visitors, the experience is more than visual. It\u2019s participatory. Each QR code becomes an invitation to connect directly with the person behind the portrait, to hear their voice, their cadence, their laughter, their memories. It\u2019s a reminder that representation is not just about being seen\u2014it\u2019s about being heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For full details, please refer to the original article: Read the full story on <a href=\"https:\/\/southburlingtonlibrary.org\/february-exhibit-hispanic-voices?c=20260222T090000&amp;e=20260222T190000\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/southburlingtonlibrary.org\/february-exhibit-hispanic-voices?c=20260222T090000&amp;e=20260222T190000\">South Butlington Public Library<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hispanic Voices Exhibit at South Burlington Public Library Throughout February and March, the South Burlington Public Library is opening its doors to a powerful celebration of culture, identity, and storytelling. The Hispanic Voices Project\u2014a service\u2011learning initiative created by Adriana S\u00e1nchez\u2011Guti\u00e9rrez, Ph.D., lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Cultures\u2014has transformed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"cdecastr","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/author\/cdecastr\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hispanic_voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}