Saturday, January 27, 2024 | 4 - 5:15PM | $5
Online tickets sales have closed, but tickets are available at the front desk at MMAM!
In partnership with the Frozen River Film Festival, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum will screen My Louisiana Love, a film that traces a young woman’s quest to find a place in her Native American community as it reels from decades of environmental degradation. In returning to reunite with her Houma Indian family, Monique Verdin sees that her people's way of life is threatened by environmental crises. Verdin must overcome the loss of her house, father, and partner while redefining the meaning of home. Tickets to this film do not include general MMAM Admission. [Directed by Sharon Linezo Hong. 57 minutes]
This program is part of the Freshwater New Look Weekend at MMAM, January 26 - 28, 2024. Monique Verdin has an exhibition on view now at MMAM with Karen Goulet, titled Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh, The Water Flows Continuously, on view January 27 - July 7, 2024.
MONIQUE VERDIN
Monique Verdin is an transdisciplinary artist and storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana. She is a citizen of the Houma Nation, director of The Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange and is supporting the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo (People of the Sacred Medicine Trail), a network of Indigenous gardeners, as the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network's Gulf South food and medicine sovereignty program manager. Monique is co-producer of the documentary My Louisiana Love and her work has been included in a variety of environmentally inspired projects, including Cry You One multi platform performance that utilizes the unique music and stories of Louisiana to inspire connections between people working to steward the natural world wherever they live, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (University of California Press), and the collaborative book Return to Yakni Chitto: Houma Migrations (University of New Orleans Press).
Photo Credit: Akasha Rabut
FreshWATER New Look Weekend
January 26 - January 28, 2024
New Look Weekend General Admission Rate: $5 | MMAM Member General Admission: Free
Tickets are required for some programs and events.
