ACTION/ABSTRACTION REDEFINED PROGRAMS ENGAGED AUDIENCES AT THE MUSEUM AND VIRTUALLY

Throughout the run of Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1945–1975, the Museum’s Learning, Engagement, and Partnerships (LEAP) Team offered a series of educational programs in partnership with the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Ganondagan Seneca Art & Culture Center, and the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center. These programs engaged hundreds of visitors of all ages with Native American history & culture, literature & storytelling, music & dance, and, of course, art!

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Members of the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center in Pittsburgh share creative cultural expressions through music and dance during Native Peoples Celebration: American Indian Drum and Dance Performance.

Participants work in the Studio on an alcohol-ink based art activity inspired by abstract art during Sunday Fun Day: Native American Stories and Art.

Storyteller Perry Ground (Turtle Clan member of the Onondaga Nation of the Haudenosaunee), performing a presentation of Stories from the People of the Longhouse during Sunday Fun Day: Native American Stories and Art.

Hannah Vincent, Public Programs Manager, and Dr. Erica Nuckles, Director of Learning, Engagement and Partnerships, guide visitors through a literary tour of the exhibition while reading excerpts from Zitkala-Ša’s American Indian Stories

Film Screening: A Good Day to Die in the Paul and Carol Evanson Community Room.