The Great Migration: Poets, Philosophers, Historians, part of The American Library Collection, by Yinka Shonibare CBE will be unveiled at Rollins Museum of Art. This new acquisition to the Museum's permanent collection was created in collaboration with Rollins students, staff and faculty and will be permanently on display in this common area.
Yinka Shonibare CBE’s Latest ‘Libraries’ Series Focuses on the Great Migration
The Installation Will Be Unveiled at Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida, USA
25 February 2022
The work is comprised of hardcover books, bound in Dutch wax fabric, with embossed spines of poets, philosophers, or historians with ancestral connections to the Great Migration, the movement of six million Black Americans from the rural Southern US that occurred between the 1910s and 1970s.
The American Library Collection (The Great Migration: Poets, Philosophers, Historians), 2022, installed at The Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, 25 February 2022. Courtesy The Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park. Photographer: Laney Velazquez.