Tuesday night at the museum

Please join us at the Museum for a conversation and exhibit opening with artist, Bill Vanwart. This one time special exhibition features a 30 year retrospective of his art. While the exhibit is here all summer long, we have Bill here for one night only for conversation and laughter while he shares with us his musings and inspirations in art...

Although remembered for its material exchanges, this talk will explore how the fur trade was also predicated on musical exchanges and soundways among its diverse participants. Extensive archival and museum-based research reveals the confluence of musical cultures that intersected and developed in and around the trading posts, in the canoes, and on the portages, including Indigenous music, voyageur songs, and...