Exciting Events at Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum This Weekend!

Native American Living Arts Program 

Saturday, June 4

9:00 - 1:00

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum

Workshop fee: $25.00

The last in our series of workshops will take place this Saturday, June 4.  The subject is Star Quilts, with workshop leader Cheryl Savageau.  

Cheryl's quilts have been exhibited at the University of New Hampshire in a contemporary Native Artists' exhibit and at the Abbe Museum's Twisting Path exhibit in Bar Harbor, Maine.

A few spaces are still available.  Please call 603-456-2600 to register.

Cheryl Savageau

Second Sunday Speaker Series

Sunday, June 5 (note: this is the 1st Sunday of the month)

1:00 - 3:00

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum

Admission: Free

For more information, cal 603-456-2600

Our Second Sunday Speaker Series will conclude this Sunday with Cheryl Savageau, whose topic will be Poetry, Storytelling and Cultural Survival.

Cheryl will read from her poetry and discuss the ways they relate to the land, traditional native storytelling, and the survival of Native American cultures.

Cheryl Savageau graduated from Clark University in 1978, where she began writing "by accident" when she signed up for a poetry class through Continuing Education to finish her degree, and discovered that the poetry class was actually a writing class.

Cheryl's  apprenticeship as a writer was through the People's Poets and Artists Workshop in Worcester, MA. She worked for several years as a poet and storyteller in the schools through the Massachusetts Artist in Residence program. Since 1993, she has been a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, working as a mentor to apprentice Native writers.

Cheryl has taught at Clark University, Holy Cross College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is now teaching in the Native American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Her current writing projects include a third volume of poetry and a novel about chronic illness.

The Second Sunday Speaker Series in funded by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.