YangaLogo Design Contest

Journeys to Freedom

Yanga: Journeys to Freedom is an exhibition that
will break ground introducing new and existing
materials in a direct and purposeful, bilingual
educational experience using all five senses.
Visitors will leave with a powerful and
thoughtful overview of Gaspar Yanga’s role as a
liberator and the slave trade experience in the
Americas including examples of original tools
used to punish. In addition, the exhibition
highlights the often-neglected story of the
Mascogos, who took the Southern route of the
unofficial Underground Railroad to escape
slavery in the United States to found the desert
town of Nacimiento de los Negros (Birth of the
Negros) in the northern Mexican state of
Coahuila.
This exhibition, curated by Jorge Baldor and
Zameer Jiwani from Latino Arts Project in
collaboration with the African American
Museum of Dallas, will include commissioned
and collected Folk Art, interactive visual
displays, sounds of African drums and videos of
Afro-Mexican festivals and original dances.

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must have illustration of Yanga in some form