Talk | Documenting History through Visual Art

Documenting History through Visual Art
Saturday, July 30 | 2:00–3:00

The authors of People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879–1942 discuss the value of visual art and its relevance in documenting Native American history. The panel includes Matthew Daniel Mason, archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Michael Schmudlach, Wisconsin Historical Society Board of Curators member, and George A. Greendeer, Ho-Chunk Nation tribal genealogist. Moderated by exhibiting artist Tom Jones. Book signing to follow.

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Funded in part by a grant from Wisconsin Humanities, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.