The exhibition ‘Love Medicine: Beads, Bark and Books from Ojibwe Country’ (Finn Room, Rockefeller Library), a collaboration of the Tomaquag Museum, the Haffenreffer Museum and the Brown University Library, will end on Thursday,  October 24th.

On Friday (10/25) at the Providence Athenaeum, from 5-7 pm, Loren Spears, Director of the Tomaquag Museum, will speak on “Native Arts: Healing Communities.”  Spears will discuss themes of family, community, and historical/ intergenerational trauma in the novel and Native American experience.

Both events are part of this year’s NEA-funded Big Read project devoted to Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine.

For information on the Tomaquag Museum and other Big Read events in Rhode Island, see: http://www.tomaquagmuseum.com/index.cfm?ac=museum&page=497&kw=Big%20Read%20Events

For further information on the Providence Athenaeum’s Salon series, which includes the talk by Loren Spears, see http://providenceathenaeum.org/programs/month2.html

For information on NEA’s BIG READ project, see http://neabigread.org/books/erdrich/“