Mission

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To uplift Wampanoag Artists by providing access to indigenous knowledge, educational resources, art institutions and the natural materials necessary to evolve and represent eastern woodland art as if it were never interrupted, misinterpreted, miscategorized or stolen due to colonization. 

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Vision

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We strive to break down any barriers standing in the way of Wampanoag Art.  We seek to unite our artists and the collective information we have in order to build stronger national representation of eastern woodland art.  

 

 We seek to provide spaces for knowledge building, educational reframing, brainstorming, technical skills workshops, teaching opportunities, sharing resources and creating long lasting partnerships to simply bring forth our innate ability to create.  

 

At the forefront of our philosophy is to source, understand, connect with and preserve the natural materials necessary that are historically used in the production of eastern woodland art. 

 

We hope to replace synthetic, contemporary materials and harmful methodologies with ones that are more in line with the proper spiritual and symbolic use found within traditional ecological knowledge of the natural world.  We will accomplish this using plants, animals, soils and the landscape around us to inform and inspire our collective art as if it were uninterrupted by colonization.