Dennos Museum Center on Northwestern Michigan College’s campus hosted their Embrace the Dream event Monday.
Those in attendance were able to observe art by artists of color and honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. Nolan Morneiu, 7, visited the museum and says that King “kind of changed the world.”
Nolan goes onto say that King “had a ton of speeches, but like ‘I Have a Dream’ was his most famous one.” He tells us he bets “that a lot of people changed their perspective after he made that speech.”
The museum is opening three new exhibits to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy. The Museum Executive Director, Craig Hadley, tells us Teresa Dunn, is one of the artists featured. Next door to her is an “exhibit called a rich history. That’s a loan exhibit from the Muskegon museum of art about African-American artists. And then our third exhibit is a loan exhibit with the Detroit institute of art about American Indian women in art.”
Those viewing the exhibits got the chance to really think about Dr. King and his message. Landon Morneiu, 10, says “it’s just your skin color. It just comes from your heritage.”
His brother Nolan adds “I just let you be who you are. Not like, fighting or anything, just being who you want to be.”
Families plan to come back to the museum to see more work from these artists that has yet to be installed.
One man brought his wife and two year old daughter and his mother in law. He says “we definitely wanna come back more and more. I think this is a perfect example of like high level art and culture that we should be appreciating here in Traverse City and Northern Michigan.”
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