The ceremony included the reading of a letter from the Obamas, a video tribute from Oprah Winfrey and a chance to celebrate the Princeton professor, author and Nobel laureate.
How Princeton scholar Autumn Womack curated her critically acclaimed exhibition about Toni Morrison’s creative process and invited other thinkers and artists to come build their own stories from the Toni Morrison Papers.
Princeton Garden Theatre and the Princeton University Art Museum welcome you to a free screening of Daughters of the Dust (1991). At the dawn of the twentieth century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off South Carolina formerly enslaved peoples from West Africa who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots. This film is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers on view at Art@Bainbridge. The gallery will be open until 7 p.m. for attendees to visit the galleries before the film. This screening is free and open to the public. Reserve your ticket through our website. Directed by Julie Dash; 1 hour 53 minutes.