Atonement: Frances Dorsey and Carol Jurgens

Frances Dorsey was born in Alabama and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, but is a long-time resident of Halifax; Carol Jurgens lives and works in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Both artists have explored the records and archives that were left by their fathers from WWII, John T. Dorsey Jr. in Europe and Roy Jurgens Jr. in the island warfare of the Pacific Theatre. Through their paintings, textiles, and mixed media projects, Dorsey and Jurgens respond to the physical and emotional damage that their fathers experienced as young men in combat zones and how, as survivors of war, also manifested their scars through intergenerational trauma that affected their mutual families.