Houston Christian University hosted the Ground Zero 360 Remembrance Exhibition to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
The collaborative exhibit of global artists from 12 countries opened to the general public from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in the Contemporary Gallery of the University Academic Center on the HCU campus, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, Texas 77074.
HCU President Robert Sloan offered words of comfort at a 9/11 Worship Service in Belin Chapel in the Morris Cultural Arts Center. During the service, a moment of silence was held in recognition of the collapse of the Twin Towers. A 9/11 Memorial Ceremony took place outside of the Morris Family Center for Law and Liberty led by Master of Ceremonies Len Cannon of KHOU-11. Family members of victims dedicated a tree on the HCU campus in commemoration of all 9/11 victims.
The Ground Zero 360 Remembrance Exhibition opened for viewing after the ceremony. Visitors viewed harrowing visuals, heartbreaking “missing person posters” and a panoramic installation that gives insight into what eight million New Yorkers felt in the days following the 9/11 attacks. Visitors also had the opportunity to hear emergency radio calls from that morning and see a fragment of twisted steel and broken granite from the World Trade Center.
The curated art and history exhibition also displayed crosses and a menorah cut from steel from the World Trade Center by ironworkers, a flag that flew over Ground Zero, a “Survivor Tree” cast in bronze with steel from the World Trade Center along with personal artifacts lent by families of police officers and firefighters who lost their lives in the attacks.
The exhibition runs through Jan. 31, 2023, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday – Thursday on the HCU campus. For more information on the Ground Zero 360 Remembrance Exhibition, visit groundzero360.org.
