Americas Weekend Schedule

Visualizing Power: Plains Pictographic Art

Friday, April 3–Saturday, April 4, 2009

Friday, April 3

Rescheduled for May 14: Lecture

Thursday, May 14, 2009; 5:30 p.m.
Public Lecture

Starting at Standing Rock: Following Custer and Sitting Bull to the Little Big Horn.
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower and In the Heart of the Sea.

Exhibition Opening

Friday, April 3, 2009; 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.
Exhibition Opening

Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West
Colored drawings by Plains Indian warriors with historic objects from the Peabody’s collections, displayed in a gallery designed by a contemporary Lakota artist. For more on the exhibition, click here.

Saturday, April 4: Seminar

9 a.m.–5 p.m.
8:30 a.m. Registration, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St.

Welcome

Speaker: William L. Fash, William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director, Peabody Museum.

Dimensions of Plains Pictographic Art

Speaker: Castle McLaughlin, Associate Curator, Peabody Museum.

Burial Lodges and Other Matters

Speaker: Byron Olson, Tribal Archaeologist, Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota.

A Superficial Sameness: Plains Pictorial Art

Speaker: Candace Green, North American Ethnologist and Collections and Resource Officer, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History

Speaker: Andrew E. Masich, President of the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center.  

Lunch 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.  

2:30–5:00 Afternoon Session

What’s in a Name? Modes of Naming in Maya, Aztec, and North American Art

Speaker: Marc Zender, Research Associate, Peabody Museum.

Chiwaalaatuua: Narrative Drawing of the Crow Indians

Speaker: Tim McCleary, Instructor, Little Big Horn college.

Artist's Salon: Conversations with Contemporary Ledger Artist Dwayne Wilcox (Oglala Sioux) & Exhibition and Artist-Designer Butch Thunder Hawk (Hunkpapa Sioux)

Speaker: Sam Tager, Director of Exhibitions, Peabody Museum. 

5:00 pm Exhibition Tour