“Wampanoag Art for the Ages, Traditional and Transitional” Author Talk and Book Signing with Lee Roscoe

Friday, March 3, 2023, from 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Member $10 / Non-Member $12

Lee Roscoe will give a presentation followed by Q & A on her new book Wampanoag Art for the Ages, Traditional and Transitional. This is the first and only book of its kind and was vetted by tribal elders. The book looks at life through the arts of this Algonquian Cape Cod tribe which greeted the first colonists. It starts in the wetu and goes on to look at pottery, wampum, clothing, adornment, matting, twining, finger weaving, painting and more with some of the foremost Wampanoag creators including: Annawon Weeden, Ramona Peters (Nosapocket), Elizabeth and Jonathan James-Perry, Julia Marden, Robert Peters, Emma Jo Mills Brennan, and Mother Bear. Learn more at www.ccmoa.org

Lee’s talk will be accompanied by a pop up sale of a few Wampanoag artists’ works, such as Elizabath James Perry wampum jewelry and Annawon Weeden carvings.

Long-time journalist, activist, and award winning environmentalist and playwright Lee Roscoe was privileged to have unique access to artists. Roscoe is currently a correspondent for Artscope and Provincetown magazines. She is the author of Dreaming Monomoy’s Past, Walking its Present. Roscoe’s plays include The Mooncusser’s Tale, WOMR-FM, Impossible?, Eventide Theater; and most recently Four Plays for a Planet in Peril, a film in collaboration with Janet Murphy Robertson. The Warning premiered at the Chelsea Film Festival NYC. Now titled Dreams From a Planet in Peril, the film will be at CCMOA, March 31, 2 pm, FREE with paid Museum admission.