To Never Forget: Faces of the Fallen
Painting Exhibition, 2005

Beginning March 3rd, Syracuse University will be the first - and only - scheduled East Coast stop for To Never Forget: Faces of the Fallen, an exhibition of more than 1,400 5x7" paintings of the U.S. military casualties in Iraq since March 2003, in remembrance of lives lost during the war. The exhibit runs March 3rd through April 1st at The Wall located inside the Shaffer Art Building. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The initial Faces of the Fallen originated when an art faculty member at California's College of Marin began the project after reading a story in The New York Times on U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. Faculty and students at the college painted, drew and produced more than 1,100 portrait prints of the faces of soldiers killed since the war began.

Stephen Zaima, professor of painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, arranged to bring the exhibit to SU. Students, faculty, staff and the community painted an additional 350 portraits of soldiers who have died since the exhibit began at the College of Marin in November 2004.