Boundless K-12 Curriculum

PLACE

What does place mean to you?

These works all have a specific connection to PLACE and the materials that come from there. The artists depict images of animals, plants, and humans, at times using natural materials that link them back to the homelands of their ancestors. Place matters because it connects Indigenous people to the past and the future. 

Learn about PLACE through the following objects:

necklace made from cord and seashells

What connects people to a place?

A digital print by Justin Beatty of a larger than life indigenous person on the Umass Amherst campus.

How do cultural groups establish presence in a specific place?

A painting by Courtney M. Leonard of the remains of a humpback whale and a red poppy flower.

What does it mean for a culture when access to homelands change?

A photograph by Jeremy Dennis of trees in an eastern forest.

Why is retaining knowledge of a place important?

overlapping concentric circles made by ripples in water.

Boundless K-12 Curriculum

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