with Maria Varga, Museum Docent

Free with Museum Admission

Join Museum Docent Maria Varga for a guided tour of the current exhibitions Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape and naqutiwowok/continuance: Connecticut’s Tribal Communities Create. On view through February 9, 2025, these two exhibitions acknowledge the perspective and artistic achievements of the Indigenous community, juxtaposed with works by Romantic landscape artists such as Thomas Cole who frequently painted Indigenous figures.

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