MIT historian Tanalís Padilla spoke on Sept. 26, 2023, the ninth anniversary of the 43 atrocity. View her talk here. 

We gathered on Sept. 18, 2023 in the Eccles lobby on the Utah Tech University campus to inaugurate our 2023 campus engagement. Watch the ceremony here.

View Dr. Padilla's talk here.

Jan Nimmo is a Glasgow based artist, designer and award winning filmmaker who studied at Glasgow School of Art. Over the past 25 years she has worked on a wide range of creative projects, encompassing solo exhibitions, interior, textile and graphic design, filmmaking, research into Latin American popular arts and facilitating issues based art projects for community groups. 

She has explored an equally wide variety of media, from painting, collage and printmaking to photography and moving image. 

Jan's recent work is essentially people-centered and looks at the lives that people lead: from portraits of musicians and artisans from Latin America to documenting picket lines in Ecuador, from transcriptions of banana workers' testimonies to recording oral history in Scotland. 

Jan sees her role as that of bridge-builder, creating direct links between people and across cultures, focusing on social and environmental justice and recording stories that would otherwise be lost. A fluent Spanish speaker,  Jan has developed a specialist working knowledge of popular Mexican art and Cuban traditional music. She spent much of 2015 making portraits which pay tribute to the Ayotzinapa 43+, students who were forcibly disappeared in Mexico in September 2014.

REMEMBER THE 43 STUDENTS was originally conceived in 2015 as part of a larger exploration of political violence at Santa Clara University. In collaboration with Jerry Enos, Gary Sloan, Andres Solis, and several student groups, Steve developed and constructed the installation. The installation was displayed at SCU in 2015 and 2016 before moving the southern Utah in 2021. The 2023 installation commemorates the ninth anniversary of the forced disappearance of the 43 students in Iguala, Mexico.

Conceived both to individually honor each of the 43 students lost that day and to build a direct connection with viewers, the installation compels visitors to "see yourself in the 43." 

While it was developed as a temporary installation in 2015, REMEMBER THE 43 STUDENTS continues to endure with the help of faculty, staff, and students.