We had clay people making parties to create images of our ancestors

Placing the Ancestral images and artifacts

Placing the raft into the water

We gathered at Tingly Beach and carried handmade bio degradable raft to a clearing

Lifting the raft

New Ancestor Toni Morrison placed at the helm

Ceremony with libation, Gullah-Geechee language poem, Mayoral Proclamation

Carrying the raft

The raft journeying HOME with our Ancestors Souls

​FEATURE ART EXHIBIT
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“400 YEARS (1619-2019): KNOWING OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN PAST AND CREATING OUR FUTURE" 

October 7 - December 27
Presented by
The NM Humanities Council & NM African American Resilience Committee

Our opening was fantastic with Curator Maurice Burns (pictured) and exhibiting artists sharing 90 seconds each about their work followed by plenty of one-on-one conversations. Featured artists included Matthew Barkley, Mark Beck, Bouchra Belghali, Savannah Boone, Michael Carson, Ike Davis, Paige Diem, Georgette Endicott, Doris Fields,PhD, Cherrymae Goldston, Karen Jones Meadows, Michael LaFrance Lynch, Issa Nyaphaga, Gwen Samuels, and Ricardo Sarto.

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​Watch this video with panelists: Issa Nyaphaga (Cameroon), Raul Davis (African American and Apache--grew up on the Mescalero Apache Reservation), Savannah Boone (Antigua), Michael Carson (2nd Generation New Mexican), Cherrymae Golston (Belize), Bouchra Belghali (Morocco), Dr. Doris Fields (From Southern USA), Karen Jones Meadows (From Northern USA)

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UNVEILING OF 400 YEARS AND BEYOND TOURING EXHIBIT OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

A timeline exhibit touring New Mexico, designed by Dr. Daniel Taradash & Mario Griego 

Courtesy of the Holocaust & Intolerance Museum of New Mexico
&
The African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico

With African Cuisine Feast & Featured Entertainment 
Storyteller-Ramona King, Singer-Isaiah Barkley, 
​Percussionists-Mensah Sakpor and Brenda Hollingsworth-Marley 

This standing room only event included NMAARC gifts to guests of scrolls highlighting Upstanders in the African American Community 

PAGE IN PROGRESS MORE TO COME!