with Jason Lamb (Schaghticoke), Artist and Educator

Free with Museum Admission

Join Lamb in the exhibition gallery as he discusses a variety of indigenous art traditions including making wampum and using seal fur and birch bark in creative endeavors. Lamb will discuss both the history as well as contemporary use of natural materials.

Select works by Lamb will be available for purchase.

Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape and naqutiwowok/continuance: Connecticut’s Tribal Communities Create are on view through February 9.

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