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A Massachusetts museum is assembling works to explore how Indigenous people interacted with whales and the marine environment throughout history. The New Bedford Whaling Museum combines a one-woman show by Shinnecock multi-media artist Courtney M. Leonard with a collection of scrimshaw work by Indigenous artists around the country, putting contemporary and historical expressions side by side.
GUESTS
Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock)
Cora-Allan Lafaiki Twiss (Māori: Ngā Puhi, Tainui from the Island of Niue), artist
Dr. Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi (Ninilchik tribal member), historian and consultant for the CIRI Foundation
Naomi Slipp, Douglas and Cynthia Crocker endowed chair for the chief curator and director of museum learning at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Ymelda Laxton, assistant curator of contemporary art and community projects at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Break 1 Music: Ocean Prayer [Version A] (song) Pamyua (artist) Side A/Side B (album)
Break 2 Music: Leave It All Behind (song) Razed In Black (artist) Damaged (album)
