Photos by Noah Altvater (Passamaquoddy)

Gather with Passamaquoddy visual artist and Harvard Graduate of Education student Nolan Altvater to explore how visual art can be used as a tool for community capacity building, political will, and intellectual self-determination in the Dawnland. Nolan highlights that the Wabanaki have used visual art as a storytelling tool for relationally, accountability, and governance through the use of wampum and the wikhikon (birch bark carvings/writing). Through this perspective, we can see that by coming to know the process of how these tools were used, we are gifted with a framework to revise the dominant cultural narratives and resist colonization through creativity today while working towards building reciprocal relationships in our homelands; as we have always done.

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Questions? Contact Starr at starr@abbemuseum.org