Ayana Jackson, an international photographer and sea diver, presents in this exhibit her vision of the inhabitants of Drexciya’s underwater kingdom. This world, created in the early 1990s by James Stinson and Gerald Donald, was populated by the children of pregnant women who had been thrown overboard or jumped voluntarily into the ocean during forced journeys of the transatlantic slave trade. The babies, not needing air, were said to have swum from their mother’s wombs and created an ocean civilization in isolation from the industrialized world.

Our one-hour visit will be self-directed and self-paced. The following article provides a good summary of the exhibit: https://afrofuturismbeginnersguide.com/2024/02/05/my-guide-to-from-the-deep-in-the-wake-of-drexciya/

The National Museum of African Art is located kitty-corner from the Smithsonian Metro Station. After the visit, participants are invited to sit in the adjourning park and exchange views of the exhibit.

To register for the tour, please go to bit.ly/Drexciya