VOA常速英语:One House, Many Voices: Art Depicting the Best of US

This large house structure built inside the gallery at the Black Rock Art Center is covered with 300 panels created by 300 artists. Each panel is dedicated to the artists ancestors who took the journey to the US whether voluntary or not.“We have six artists who trace their ancestry to the Mayflower which arrived in 1620 in Massachusetts. It goes through all of the major waves of immigration from Europe, from Asia, from South America all the way up to artists who arrived themselves about a year or two ago from the Middle East”.
在黑色岩石艺术中心的美术馆内有一个大房间，里面有300位艺术家创作的300块镶嵌画板。每一个画板都用来致敬艺术家的先辈，他们自愿或者非自愿地经过长途跋涉来到了美国。“我们有六位艺术家，他们的先辈在1620年搭乘‘五月花号’来到了马萨诸塞州。这包括了主要的移民潮，从欧洲、亚洲、南美，还有一两年前从中东来到这里的艺术家”。

Ellen White’s a co-organizer of the One House project dedicated her panel to her grandfather who fled religious persecution in Romania in 1900.He purchased the business property in Philadelphia.“The Philadelphia Historical Society certified that his building was a stop on the Underground Railroad which was used to help slaves escape from the South before the Civil War and I just thought that was such a beautiful story about how we are all intertwined in this Country.”
Ellen White是这个一个房间项目的组织者之一，她向她的祖父致敬。她的祖父为了躲避罗马尼亚的政治迫害在1900年来到美国。他在费城购置了企业。费城历史协会证实了他的大楼是在地下铁道的一个据点，是用来在美国国内战争期间帮助奴隶从南方逃离的。我就想到这是一个多么美好的故事，展示了我们与这个国家紧密相连。”

The One House project is the brainchild of Art Watch, a group of artists from the Washington DC region.“We informed about two years ago to develop projects that use our visual arts skills to stand up for the values and the principles about America that are right, democracy, inclusion, unity, tolerance.This is the largest project that we’ve done so far.”The artists families hail from all over the world.
一个房间项目是一个叫做艺术钟表的组织发起的，这是一群来自华盛顿地区的艺术家。“我们在两年前就得到通知要组织一些项目，通过使用视觉艺术技巧来拥护美国正确的价值观和原则：民主，包容，团结，宽容。这是我们目前来说做过的最大的项目。”艺术家来自世界各地。

“ We represent a very wide swath of the world that’s came to the U.S. flew persecution, seeking a better life, fleeing extreme poverty and these are the elements that still drive migration today.It never has changed.”
“我们代表着世界上大部分来到美国的人，躲避迫害，寻求更好的生活，远离贫困，这些现在仍然是移民的原因，从来没有改变过。”

The structure also includes panels created by Native American artists whose ancestors lived here before Europeans arrived.Others tell the story of slavery.
这里还有美国本土艺术家创作的画板，他们的祖先在欧洲人来之前就生活在这里。其他人讲述了奴隶的故事。

“I did a drawing part of Africa because that’s we kind of know that’s where we come from but not in certain parts and sections.I drew part of the United States and North Carolina because of the little bit that I could trace even though we were brought here involuntary we also believed in hope and opportunity.”
“我画了一部分的美洲，因为我们大概知道我们来自哪里，但是不是特定的区域。我也画了一部分美国和北卡罗来纳州，因为我能追溯到这里，尽管不是自愿来到这里，但是我们仍然坚信希望和机遇。”

Kyujin Lee depicted her departure from South Korea and arrival in America.“So to represent that I used the image of a pair of hands,a stitching or meeting from unraveled a thread and so unraveling represents the separation part of my journey to this country and re-striding is sort of my reconnecting to adapting to a new new Land”.The exhibit also incorporates audio and video recordings of the artists telling their immigration stories.“The One House project makes a powerful visual statement that we come in this country from all over the world but we support each other and diversity is our strength.”
Kyujin Lee画的是她离开韩国来到美国。“我画的是一双手，一条线，没有解开的线，展示出我离开故土来到这个国家，大步向前也算是适应新的生活。”这个展览加入了视频和音频，讲述了艺术家的移民故事。一个房间项目在视觉上强有力地讲述了我们从世界各地来到美国，但是我们互相支持，多样性也是我们的优势。

For producer Junsu, I’m Carol Pearson VOA news Washington.
Junsu制作，美国之音记者Carol Pearson华盛顿报道。