A Nation Takes Place Central Missouri + Mississippi River Convening

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"Willie Birch (United States, b. 1941), Looking Towards Algiers, 2017. Charcoal and acrylic on paper. Courtesy of the artist."

A Nation Takes Place Central Missouri + Mississippi River Convening

WashU & Slavery Project director and AFAS professor Geoff Ward will be a featured presenter in a national convening of A Nation Takes Place, presented by the Minnesota Marine Art Museum and hosted by Jim's Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center in Hannibal, Missouri.

A Nation Takes Place Central Missouri + Mississippi River Convening

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum is co-hosting a series of national convenings as part of the A Nation Takes Place project, bringing together artists, writers, curators,  scholars, community organizers, and art professionals at critical waterways in the United States to further discussion, knowledge sharing, and cultivating networks to address new and emerging scholarship, curatorial practices and artistic expression that centers Indigenous and Black voices within the marine art and maritime genre.  

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