“Transfer // 07 – 90” Presented to Public by Artists Cook-Rutnik and Lakes

Video clip from the official 1917 Transfer ceremony.

 

“Transfer // 07 – 90” will be presented to the public on Tuesday evening, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Battery.
Edgar Lake of St. Croix and Janet Cook-Rutnik of St. John will be present at the showing.

Posters featuring biographical sketches written by Lake, a writer and historian, will be handed out at the presentation, and a video using the Diorama at the Fort Frederik Museum in St. Croix, commissioned for the 75th anniversary of Transfer Day in 1992, will be shown.

This exhibition has been funded in part by the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts and BroadBand.vi.

For more information, call Cook-Rutnik at 693-8069.