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Art Exhibit: “Across a Wide Ocean: Remarkable Stories about the Origins of Identity”
September 20 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Across a Wide Ocean: Remarkable Stories about the Origins of Identity delves into the books The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith (Penguin Random House, 2021); and The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Khoa Le (Lerner Publishing, Carolrhoda Books, 2020).
Through two award-winning illustrated books visitors can explore individual accounts of people born on, or transported over, the water, revealing universal wisdom about the origins of identity. “Across a wide ocean” describes how Kao Kalia Yang’s grandmother arrived to the United States from her Hmong homeland, while ancestors of Nikole Hannah-Jones’s African protagonist were “born on the water,” only to plunge “into the teal eternity,” or reach these shores to become, as she says, the true first Americans.