A Nation Takes Place Central Missouri + Mississippi River Convening
Saturday, June 7 , 2025 | 11a - 4p + 7p Riverfront Concert
Presented by the Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Hosted by Jim’s Journey
$5 Per Person (Includes Convening and Lunch)
$50 Book Rate (Includes Convening and Lunch and A Nation Takes Place Catalog) Hannibal's Invisibles
About
With additional support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, 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.
Central Missouri + Mississippi River Convening Schedule
11a: Registration. CheckIn, Exhibition and Program Space Open
11:15a - 11:30a: Welcome. Introduction of Jim’s Journey: The Huck Finn Freedom Center by Executive Director Faye Dant.
11:30a- 12:15p. Introduction to A Nation Takes Place. With A Nation Takes Place Co-curators, Tia-Simone Gardner and Shana M. griffin introduction
12:15p - 1p: Boxed lunch.
1p - 2:30p. Creating partnerships, building networks.
How and in what ways do organizations advance our understanding of the ways race, water and art intersect in the Americas? Can we unpack what marine art is, and maybe more importantly, what can it be, by centering Black and Indigenous narratives around water?
Facilitated by Matthew Fluharty, Director, Art of the Rural, with:
Geoff Ward, Professor of African & African American Studies, director, WashU & Slavery Project and co-lead, Memory for the Future.
Renée Brummell Franklin, Chief Diversity Officer, St. Louis Art Museum
Gregg Andrews, Author and Historian.
3p - 4p: Site Visits. Native American Trading Co. (Michael O’Cheltree), Alliance Art Gallery, Jim’s Journey (Faye Dante).
7 - 10p: Riverfront Concert.