This exhibition celebrates the story of Igbo Landing, its survival and evolution over time, and its enduring impact on African and African American art and culture. In 1803, a group of Igbo captives from Nigeria revolted aboard a slave ship in Dunbar Creek, St. Simons Island, Georgia. At least ten of them chose to drown rather than accept enslavement. The Gullah Geechee, descendants of enslaved West Africans, preserved this story of resistance through oral tradition.

Mikael Owunna's piece The Flying African from his Infinite Essence series is featured in this powerful exhibition. The work honors enslaved Africans who escaped captivity by taking flight, symbolically returning to their homeland and the primordial blackness from which all life emerged.