June 23–Sept. 15, 2012 Comic Art Indigène The Pequot Museum presents Comic Art Indigène, an exhibition examining how a generation of Native artists has embraced comics as an expressive medium. As the first widely accessible mass media, comics were consumed by Indian people as a recognizable form of storytelling, expressing cultural stories through pictures. Comic Art Indigène explores how American Indian artists today articulate identity, art, worldview, politics, and culture through sequential comic art. In the Mashantucket Gallery. Free with Museum admission, free to Museum members.
This exhibition has been organized by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM.
We are pleased to announce the Museum’s new exhibit, Pequot Lives: Almost Vanished. A portion of the Museum’s 2nd floor permanent exhibition space has been transformed into a replicated house of Mashantucket Pequot tribal member Martha (Matt) Langevin. Matt’s lifetime (1901-1978) spanned much of the 1900s, when the Pequot community struggled to hold onto its land base and identity in the face of ever-shifting state policies and a changing world. Her recreated kitchen sets the stage for a sound-and-light show, Almost Vanished, the story of Pequot life on and off the reservation during the early 20th century. Outside Matt’s house, illustrated panels further examine the community’s history from the 1856 land sale through the early 1950s, telling the story of community persistence through images, documents, photographs, and objects. Come and see the exhibit for yourself.
The museum’s new exhibit, Pequot Lives: Almost Vanished was funded in part through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.
