Hometown Perry, Iowa (HPI) will host a photography exhibit by Gina J. Grillo titled Between Cultures: Children of Immigrants in America, from October 10 through January 2007 at the Carnegie Library Museum, 1123 Willis Avenue, Perry. As the grandchild of Italian immigrants, Grillo has a personal interest in her photographic studies of ethnic and immigrant life in the U.S.  In Between Cultures, Grillo explores the challenges that immigrant children face as they develop their cultural identity in an environment completely new and foreign to them. Grillo’s book of the same title recently won the Chicago Sister Cities International Multicultural Book Award for 2006. Between Cultures was originally published in 2004 to coincide with a solo exhibition of Grillo’s photographs at the Ellis Island Immigration History Museum and Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York City, which was seen by approximately 400,000 people. Since then, the book’s message has reached thousands more, providing an artistic route to the educational understanding of diversity in America. Grillo’s photographs are accompanied by the words and thoughts of children new to America. The purpose of Hometown Perry, Iowa is to study, understand, communicate, and celebrate the vital contribution small towns have made to American life as seen through the prism of the immigrant experience in Perry, Iowa, and other small towns across the Midwest.