Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/16/2022 - 04/16/2023
12:00 am
Location
Contemporary Craft
Categories
Local artist and writer Tereneh Idia is the driving force behind this amazing exhibit explores Pittsburgh history the contributions of its African American community.
This history begins with Queen Amina (1533-1610) intrepid warrior who loved armor, weapons, riding horses among other warrior woman activities. Her ethnic group (Hausa)were amazing metal smiths and iron workers. Their armor is in display in museums around the world.
Some of these amazing smiths were taken from their home placed on ships, crossing the Atlantic Ocean and what became known as the Middle Passage to New Orleans. There some were brought up the Mississippi to the Ohio River to what will later be known as Pittsburgh.
“C3” continues its story through several moments of time in the history of Pittsburgh including the Black soldiers who fought in the French & Indian War, through to meet an enslaved African woman who served the many enslavers of the Pittsburgh region, whose names you will probably be familiar with, if not the fact that they enslaved fellow humans.
Address
5645 Butler Street,
Pittsburgh,
PA
15201
United States