This traveling exhibition honors the story of Igbo Landing—its survival, evolution, and lasting influence on African and African American art and culture. First presented at the Tubman Museum and later at Wesleyan College Leadership Lab, the exhibition explores themes of resistance and liberation.

In 1803, a group of Igbo captives from Nigeria revolted aboard a slave ship in Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island, Georgia, with at least ten choosing to drown rather than accept enslavement. The Gullah Geechee preserved this powerful story through oral tradition.

The exhibition features The Flying African from Owunna’s Infinite Essence series, honoring enslaved Africans who, according to legend, escaped captivity by taking flight—symbolically returning to their homeland and the primordial blackness from which all life emerged. Also on view are three works from the Redd Family Collection of Black Art: Johnathan Green’s Oyster Pickers, Yemassee Choir, and Fishing on the Trail.