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Sat, March 16, 3PM: Requickening and Awakening the Dormant, Michael Galban (Washoe and Mono Lake), Historic Site Manager, Seneca Art and Cultural Center, Ganondagan State Historic Park. 

Minohsayaki ‘Painted Robes’ Public Program: Requickening and awakening the Dormant. With Michael Galban (Washoe and Mono Lake Paiute), Historic Site Manager, Seneca Art and Cultural Center, Ganondagan State Historic Park. 

Michael Galban has been recovering and teaching Woodland arts traditions for over 25 years through his work at Ganondagan, an important 17th century Seneca townsite. This lecture will focus on some histories of woodland arts traditions, infiltrating European collections, finding and retracing old paths and ultimately clearing the road for the generations to come.

Michael Galban is the Historic Site Manager of the Ganondagan State Historic Site and the curator of the Seneca Art & Culture Center in upstate NY. His research focuses on historic woodland arts and Indigenous/Colonial history. He has lectured and led workshops on the art of hide painting, exploring materials and techniques. Galban collaborated with the Museé du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac on the exhibit “Wampum – Les Perles de la Diplomatie,” the same museum that holds some of the most renowned examples of minohsayaki. 

In conjunction with the special exhibition Minohsayaki ‘Painted Robes’: A Peewaalia and Myaamia Story of Reclamation.

This public program is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the Humanities Without Walls Consortium, which is administered by the University of Illinois. The exhibition and program is part of the Reclaiming Stories Project: reclaimstories.web.illinois.edu

Grant funded by Humanities Without Walls at the University of Illinois