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Event Series Let’s Get Fired Up! Traditional Pottery Workshop

Let’s Get Fired Up! Traditional Pottery Workshop

Insitute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

September 24th, 25th & October 1st1:00pm - 4:00pm Join a three-day workshop where participants will be guided through the construction and pit-firing of their own clay vessel. Learn about elements of traditional pottery, including clay sourcing, temper, building methods, surface treatment, decoration and firing. Along the way, participants will learn about types of pottery found […]

Event Series Let’s Get Fired Up! Traditional Pottery Workshop

Let’s Get Fired Up! Traditional Pottery Workshop

Insitute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

September 24th, 25th & October 1st1:00pm - 4:00pm Join a three-day workshop where participants will be guided through the construction and pit-firing of their own clay vessel. Learn about elements of traditional pottery, including clay sourcing, temper, building methods, surface treatment, decoration and firing. Along the way, participants will learn about types of pottery found […]

Event Series Let’s Get Fired Up! Traditional Pottery Workshop

Let’s Get Fired Up! Traditional Pottery Workshop

Insitute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

September 24th, 25th & October 1st1:00pm - 4:00pm Join a three-day workshop where participants will be guided through the construction and pit-firing of their own clay vessel. Learn about elements of traditional pottery, including clay sourcing, temper, building methods, surface treatment, decoration and firing. Along the way, participants will learn about types of pottery found […]

An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer – RESCHEDULED

Thomas S. Perakos Arts & Community Center

 An Evening with Robin Wall Kimmerer has been rescheduled to:   Friday, October 28th 6:00pm-7:00pm   Free Event at the Thomas S. Perakos Arts & Community Center at the Frederick Gunn School   Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) is visiting Washington CT! Join us for an evening structured around connecting people with a healthier […]

Nebizun: Water is Life Gallery Talk with Vera Longtoe Sheehan

Insitute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

Saturday, December 10, 1:00pm In-Person Event Nebizun is the Abenaki word for medicine and the root word Nebi is the Abenaki word for water. Nebizun: Water is Life is a powerful traveling exhibit that brings together artwork by Abenaki artists of the Champlain Valley and Connecticut River Valley regions. It illustrates the Abenaki relationship to […]

Anthropology Day Lecture with Frederick M Wiseman, Ph.D.

Thursday, February 16, 7:00 PM Dr. Frederick M. Wiseman (Abenaki Nation of Missiquoi) was trained as a Paleoethnobotanist at the University of Arizona’s Laboratory for Paleoenvironmental Studies. Since 1987, he has focused on the Indigenous Wabanaki people of the far Northeast, having published popular and academic books, curricula, and film on modern Indigenous culture and […]

Kwanitekw (Connecticut River): The Sustainer of Life

Wednesday, March 22 7:00PM - 9:00PM Virtual EventIn honor of World Water Day, a panel of Indigenous citizens and environmental scientists share multiple perspectives on living in relationship with the Connecticut River watershed. Panelists include Darlene Kascak (Schagticoke Tribal Nation) Education Director of the Institute for American Indian and Traditional Native American Storyteller; Vera Sheehan, […]

Mohegan Cultural Program

The Institute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

Sunday, October 22 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Indigenous peoples’ history has often been recounted for them by people outside of their communities, but they have their own stories to tell. Join David Eichelberg (Pataqaham Wahsoohs), Outreach and Tradition Specialist for the Mohegan Tribe for an interactive presentation on the history, culture, and tradition of […]

The Barkhamsted Lighthouse Book Talk with Dr. Ken Feder

The Institute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

Sunday, October 29 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Deep in the woods of Barkhamsted, Connecticut archaeologist Ken Feder found a series of irregular cellar holes that led to an archaeological and genealogical investigation   into what had come to be known as the legend of the Barkhamsted Lighthouse. In the mid-1700s, Molly and James Chaugham, […]

Gallery Talk with Claudine Purdue

The Institute for American Indian Studies 38 Curtis Road, Washington, CT, United States

Saturday, November 11 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM The Institute for American Indian Studies’ Emerging Native American Artist Program supports Native voices through providing opportunities such as featured museum exhibits and public programs. The Emerging Artist Scholarship is open to undergraduate Native American students in New England and New York who are pursuing a Bachelor’s […]