with Derrick L. Strong (Eastern Pequot)

Free with Museum Admission

Join Strong for a public program of spoken word and images, featuring reading three original poems interspersed with teaching about Eastern Pequot culture, food, and sensibilities of place. Strong’s spoken word pieces are based on visits to the FloGris Museum property as well as other coastal locations on Long Island Sound, places evocative of the pre-colonial history of the Eastern Pequots as what he calls a “paddle society” that navigated the region’s waterways in the dugout canoes called Muhshoon.

Image: The Making of the Mission Mishoon, Ashley Bissonnette, 2015-06-23, From the collection of: The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center

Native Prospects, its tour and the accompanying publication are organized by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. The publication is produced in partnership with the Florence Griswold Museum.

Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Major support is provided by David Bury & The Bay and Paul Foundations and the Warner Foundation.

The exhibition and publication are also supported by The Cranshaw Corporation, National Endowment for the Arts, Wyeth Foundation for American Art and Becky Gochman.

At the Florence Griswold Museum, this exhibition is made possible with the generous support of Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, Public Art for Racial Justice Education, CT Humanities, the David T. Langrock Foundation, and Chelsea Groton Bank, as well as donors to the Exhibition Fund and the Annual Fund.

If you are a member of one of Connecticut’s five recognized Tribes, please identify yourself at our Front Desk to receive complimentary admission during these exhibitions.

See the Calendar of Exhibition programming