Madona del Maiz: The Virgin of Guadalupe in Iowa

Skillman Library, Lass Gallery
Fall 2009

Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Photographs by Marguerite Nicosia Torres document an immigrant community’s devotion to Mexico’s patron saint, Our Lady of Guadalupe. The exhibition explores the preservation of this religious and cultural heritage through the rituals and traditions honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe in Marshalltown, Iowa.

Marguerite Nicosia Torres is an award-winning photojournalist, who has been photo editor and photographer at the Ithaca Journal and an artist-in-residence at St. Lawrence University.