CLAREMONT, CA.- The Pomona College Museum of Art Montgomery Art Center presents the exhibit Project Series 30 Ken Gonzales-Day: Hang Trees through October 22, 2006. Ken Gonzales-Day will exhibit new photographs exploring the history of lynchings in California. The exhibition will also include work from his “Erased Lynchings” series. Both bodies of work extend Gonzales-Day’s interest in reconstructing issues of race and gender.

Ken Gonzales-Day will talk and read from his new book: “Lynching in the American West 1850-1935” (Duke University Press). Thursday, October 19, 4:15 p.m. Presented in conjunction with: Chicano/Latino Student Affairs Center, as part of the Latino Heritage Month celebration.

Now in its ninth year, the Project Series is the Museum’s program of focused exhibitions of work by Southern California artists. Its purpose is to bring to the Pomona College community art that is experimental and that introduces new forms, techniques, and concepts. Organized by Rebecca McGrew, this series is supported in part by the Pasadena Art Alliance and Sarah Miller Meigs. A catalogue accompanies each exhibition.