August 9, 2024, 5-7pm- Join us while we celebrate the opening of our summer exhibit, Historic Wαpánahkəyak. This show features collages by Panawáhpskewi artist Lokotah Sanborn and are on view from August 9 to October 13, 2024. We invite guest to view the show and stay for a Q + A session with artis. Refreshments will be served.

"Wαpánahkəyak" translates to "the Dawnland"—the regions of northern New England, the Canadian Maritime provinces, Newfoundland Island, and Quebec south of the Saint Lawrence River. These are the Wabanaki Confederacy's homelands, currently consisting of five principal Tribal Nations: Panawáhpskek, Peskotomuhkatiyik, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, and Abenaki.

Sanborn recontextualizes historic photographs of Indigenous Peoples taken during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Euro-American anthropologists sought to document the "vanishing" race and cultures of Indigenous North Americans whose lifeways were threatened by assimilation policies enacted by the United States and Canadian governments. Sanborn honors the subjects in these photographs by reimagining their likenesses in digital collages to illustrate Wabanaki cultural continuity, epistemology, oral history, and spirituality.