MINNEAPOLIS — While Juneteenth is an official day for remembrance and celebration, it is also a larger cause to highlight amazing Black artists in the Twin Cities.
June 19 is marked as the official day in 1865 when slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally notified that the Civil War was over and they were free – two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But for Minneapolis creative Robin Hickman, Juneteenth is every day.
Hickman works with the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on the American Gothic: Gordan Parks and Ella Watson exhibit. Parks, Hickman's uncle, was a noted photographer known for his work relating to issues of civil rights, poverty and the lives of African Americans. The exhibit follows Watson as she went about life as a government worker and Black woman raising a family in 1942.
Seeing this as an opportunity for learning, Hickman also collaborated with young BIPOC creators to make a documentary on the exhibit. For more information on her work, click here.
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