On View December 20, 2025 - February 15, 2026
First Friday Receptions: January 2 & February 6, 2026, 5-7pm
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday 12-5PM

Through portraiture, landscape, and archival imagery, Esperanza, Hope traces the many migrations that have shaped Athens, New York, from the region’s Indigenous roots and Underground Railroad history to the arrival of Italian settlers, African American laborers, and today’s migrant and queer communities. Thierry Casias brings these stories into focus through intimate photographic portraits and site-based research, honoring the people whose lives have woven the town’s complex cultural fabric.

Both a meditation and an act of recognition, Esperanza, Hope reflects on displacement, freedom, and belonging, asking how memory and migration continue to define place. By connecting past and present, Casias invites viewers to consider how the movement of people shapes identity, and how, in Athens, the echoes of history still live in the faces of its residents.