with Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator

Free with Museum Admission

Join Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing for a guided tour of the current exhibition Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape. Explore themes of the exhibition which presents 19th-century paintings by Thomas Cole featuring Native figures, in context with Indigenous works of historic and cultural value, and artworks by contemporary Indigenous artists.

Image: Truman T. Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Waterfall VIII, 2011, wood and metal fasteners, 126 x 82 7/16 x 96 in., Denver Art Museum, Native Arts acquisition fund, 2011.430A-N. © Truman T. Lowe and Thomas Cole, Kaaterskill Falls, 1826, oil on canvas, 25¼ × 35¼ in., 35 x 44½ (framed), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, Bequest of Daniel Wadsworth, 1848.15

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.