St. Paul – Film Screening: The Making of America

Join us to kick off the film tour for The Making of America from OMG Studios. This event includes a film screening, panel discussion, and art showcase: Reconstruction 2.0: Allegories of a Better World.

This documentary film explores how Enlightenment-era systems of knowledge shaped what became the United States of America. Directed by Monique Linder, and produced by OMG Studios in partnership with Minnesota Humanities Center, the film explores how Enlightenment-era systems of knowledge—art, science, architecture, and cartography—produced enduring frameworks for racial slavery, territorial extraction, and Indigenous dispossession in what became the United States of America.

The showcase features works submitted by artists nationwide, which examine themes such as virtue and moral courage; nobility beyond class or status; truth, justice, and liberation; reconstruction and unlearning; memory, history, and inherited systems; cultural healing and collective imagination; and more.

Event Schedule
Art exhibition will be open to view when the Visitor Center opens at 10:00 am
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Art Showcase & Networking
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Film Screening
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Post Screening Discussion

Registration

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged but not required. Access to the Visitor Center exhibit and historic fort require site admission. You can watch the trailer on our website.

Registration Questions: ftsnelling@mnhs.org

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