Sokari Ekine (Nigeria, b. 1949), Liquid, 2014. Archival inkjet print. 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
A Nation Takes Place
Exhibition Opening & Press Day
Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona Minnesota
Wednesday, August 21 | 10a - 5p | Daily Admission
The opening date of A Nation Takes Place, August 21, is inspired by the start of the largest and most successful insurrection initiated by self-emancipated Black people in the Western Hemisphere. Initiated in 1791 and succeeding in 1804 in ending slavery and French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the Republic of Haiti, on the island of Hispaniola, renamed after the indigenous Arawak name for the island, “land of high mountains.” The Haitian Revolution led to the establishment of the first independent nation in the Caribbean, the second republic in the Americas (after the United States), the first country in the Hemisphere to officially abolish slavery, and the only sovereign state established in the Americas by a slave revolt.
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum welcomes you to be among the first to see this project, which centers on artists, scholars, and communities who have been systematically excluded from narratives, practices, and presentations of American marine art.
Support for this exhibition comes from:
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.