Radiate Art Space and Richmond Racial Equity announce the opening of a series of murals on the outside of the Richmond Town Center, "Abenaki Contributions to the Vermont Community," created in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association.
A reception will be held at outside the town center on Saturday June 11, 10:30 – 11:30 am.
Abenaki culture bearer Charles Delaney Megeso will conduct a traditional ceremony to dedicate the work. Refreshments will be served.
Abenaki artists Lisa Ainsworth Plourde, an accomplished painter with deep knowledge of native traditions, and Vera Longtoe Sheehan, the director of Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, served as consultants on this project.
Richmond is located within Ndakinna, the homeland of the Western Abenaki people, who have a unique connection to this land and have been its traditional owners for millennia. The ten panels celebrate the Abenaki origins of many of the practices that are important to what we call Vermont culture, including the art of tapping maple trees to make sugar, the use of the canoe and showshoe, the cultivation of squash, beans, and corn, staples in many Vermont gardens, as well as the practice of democratic decision-making. Each panel introduces words in the Abenaki language, with their pronunciations and English translations.
To learn more, go to https://www.radiateartspace.org/current
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