“The Sign Project” showcases the creative work of students from Cony High School and the University of Maine at Augusta as they address issues of bias in an exhibit at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine through Nov. 30. An opening reception including community conversations is set for 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18.

“The Sign Project” is part of a course offered by UMA through a duel enrollment program, which allows Cony students to earn high school and UMA college credit at the same time.

Part one of the two-part project is a collection of photographs of local residents, each holding up a large poster that answers the question, “what does hate look like?” UMA and Cony High School students worked together to find, interview and photograph the community members in hopes of addressing issues of hate and violence locally and globally.

During part two of the project, Cony students plan to take the dialogue back into their school, and during the upcoming year brainstorm solutions to the issues community members raised. They will then be photographed with their written solutions in the same artistic style.

A collaboration between the HHRC, the Family Violence Project of Maine and UMA, the exhibit can be viewed in the atrium gallery of the HHRC at Michel Klahr Center on the Augusta campus of the University of Maine at Augusta, the gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.