IndiVisible comes to the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
IndiVisible comes to the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum
Written by Terria Smith
Visitors filled the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum on the evening following the 30th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day for the opening reception of IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas. My 13-year-old daughter Emma and myself were among those guests.
The traveling exhibition – featuring images, historical milestones, and poignant information that focus on individuals of dual African American and Native American ancestry – was brought to Palm Springs from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
Highlights include photos from President Barack Obama’s pre-2008 election visit to Crow Agency, Montana, images of the late guitarist Jimi Hendrix (who also had Native American ancestry), as well as a short bio of Grammy Award Winner and 46th Miss Navajo Radmilla Cody who is half African American.
IndiVisible is laid out beautifully, leaving a viewer to have a fluid and refreshing learning experience. One of those being educated was my Emma. She admitted, to my surprise, that she was learning about these facts for the first time.
Thus, this exhibition truly lived up to the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum’s mission to “inspire people to learn about the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and other Native cultures.” The folks who made this all happen should be very proud of themselves!
IndiVisible will remain on exhibition at the museum through November 1, 2016. For more information, visit http://www.accmuseum.org/Current-Exhibitions
