Cantilever Conversations

Most Saturdays, 1–2pm

The docents at The Westmoreland are thrilled to offer engaging tours of the special exhibitions on view in the Cantilever Gallery on Saturdays at 1pm during each exhibition run. This spring, take a deeper dive into the works and artists featured in Action/Abstraction Redefined! No advance registration required.

FREE

Virtual Program: The Thomas Indian School - Narrative Sovereignty and Healing

Wednesday, March 1, 6–8pm

Join us for a virtual presentation by Hayden Haynes (Onöndowa’ga:’, Deer Clan), Museum Manager of the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, on the tragic history and legacy of the Thomas Indian School, Seneca-Cattaraugus Territory, one of the longest-running Indian Boarding Schools that was open from 1855-1957.

FREE

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Film Screening: A Good Day to Die

Saturday, March 4, 11am–12:30pm; 1–2:30pm

Visit the Museum for two film screenings (11am and 1pm) of A Good Day to Die, an award-winning documentary on Dennis Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM). This film provides historical context for the exhibition Action/Abstraction Redefined

FREE

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Peter B. Jones (Geh–A) (Onondaga), Mexico #1, around 1969. Glazed stoneware, 18 1/4 x 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. Image courtesy of IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Current Issues in Native America

Wednesday, March 29, 6–8pm

Miguel Sague Jr., a member of the Speakers of the Singing Winds with the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center in Pittsburgh, will educate participants that Indigenous communities still exist, and will present on the issues and activism in those communities today.

FREE

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Literary Tour: Zitkala-Ša’s

American

Indian Stories

Thursday, April 6, 6–7:30pm

Meet us at the Museum to learn about writer, musician, and activist Zitkala-Ša (Red Bird, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (Yankton Dakota Sioux) (1876-1938). The program includes a special tour of the exhibition Action/Abstraction Redefined that incorporates selected passages from American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša.

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Virtual In-Conversation: Action/Abstraction Redefined

Wednesday, May 24, 6–7:30pm

Join Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator at The Westmoreland, for this virtual program as he explores the exhibition Action/ Abstraction Redefined with Manuela Well-Off-Man, Chief Curator of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, and Peter Jones (Onondaga, Beaver Clan), a featured artist in the exhibition.

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To register or purchase tickets for these events:

• visit thewestmoreland.org/calendar • call 888.718.4253*

*Please note that $1/ticket fee is added to phone orders for paid events only.