Scheduled Appearances

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2017

February 24 - Decolonizing Native American Art. Eckerd College. St Petersberg, Fl.

April 9 - Curatorial Talk for Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage. Amy Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Performing Arts Center, Burlington, VT.

June 24 -  Decolonizing Native American Art. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Vergennes, VT.

June 24 - Curatorial Talk for Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Vergennes, VT.

August 2 - Presenting Abenaki Culture in the Classroom. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Vergennes, VT.

September 8 - Curatorial Talk for Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage. Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum. Warner, NH.

November TBA - Curatorial Talk for Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage. Institute for American Indian Studies,

    Washington, CT.


2016

June 25 & 26 - Featured Artist. "Native American Heritage Celebration." Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT.

July 2 & 3 - Featured artist and Curatorial Talk for the Parley and Protocol: Abenaki Diplomacy Past and Present exhibit. Abenaki Cultural Weekend. Fort Necessity Battlefield National Park, Farmington, Pa.

July 9 - Native American Festival and Basket Market, Bar Harbor, Maine.

July 17 - Lecture & workshop. Understanding Place:  Wabanaki Textiles and Fibre Art. Middlebury College. Middlebury, VT.

August 5 - Fiber Arts in the Northeast. American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY "A Night a the Museum"


2015

June 25 & 26 - Featured Artist. "Native American Heritage Celebration." Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT.

July 9 - Native American Festival and Basket Market, Bar Harbor, Maine.


2014 

February 6 - Abbe Museum, Opening Reception "Twisted Path III exhibit, Bar Harbor, Maine

June 28 & 29- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT "Native American Heritage Celebration"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textiles.

TBA - Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, "Introduction to Twining a Bag, " Vergennes, VT

Join Vera Longtoe Sheehan in a "Learn to Twine a Bag" class. Register by calling the LCMM at (802) 475-2022.

July 10- Introduction to Twined Bags workshop, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine.

2 dates TBA Institute for American Indian Studies, Native Interpreter.  Washington, CT

August 9 - Mt Kearsarge Indian Museum, Opening reception "All of My Relations" exhibit, Warner, NH

 

2013

January 18 - American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY "A Night a the Museum"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textiles

February 8 - American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY "A Night a the Museum"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textiles

 February 22 - American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY "A Night a the Museum"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textiles

 March 22 - American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY "A Night a the Museum"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textiles

 April 6 - Introduction to Twined Bags workshop,  Twist O'Wool Guild, Middlebury, VT

April 7 - Institute for American Indian Studies, "Meet the Artist," Washington, CT.

April 19 - American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY "A Night a the Museum"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors about the material use for making Native American twined bags & textiles.  There will be samples of natural materials, dyes.

May 5 ~ Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum,  "Meet the Artist," Warner, N.H.

May 17 - American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY "A Night a the Museum"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textile.

 June 6-19 -  Yup'ik & Abenaki Cultural Exchange Program. France & Germany.

 June 23 & 23 - Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT "Native American Heritage Celebration"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textiles.

 June 29- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, "Introduction to Twining a Bag, " Vergennes, VT

Join Vera Longtoe Sheehan in a "Learn to Twine a Bag" class. Register by calling the LCMM at (802) 475-2022.

 July 12 -  Norwester & Loyalist Museum, Fibre Arts Lecture. Williamstown, Ontario, Canada

 July 13 & 14- McDonnell-Williamson House, Indigenous Fibre Arts Exhibit.  Ontario, Canada

 July 21 - Institute for American Indian Studies, Native Interpreter.  Washington, CT

 August 10 - American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY "A Night a the Museum"

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textile

 August TBA - Institute for American Indian Studies, Native Interpreter.  Washington, CT

 

2012

May 18,19 - Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison, VT, "Grand Opening of Champlain Bridge"   

Vera will be speaking about the history of Abenaki fiber arts - textile, bag and basket making.

 May 25 - American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY  "A Night a the Museum" 

Featured Artist - Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining.  There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textiles.

 June 23 & 24 - Lake Champlain Maritime Museum,  Vergennes, VT  "Native American Heritage Celebration"   

Featured Artist -  Vera will be talking to visitors and doing demonstrations of twining. There will also be numerous samples of twined bags & textiles.

 July 28 - Jamaica State Park, "Abenaki Cultural Weekend," Jamaica, VT

 August 11- American Museum of Natural History New York, NY  "A Night a the Museum"

Family Tour of the Eastern Woodland Indian Hall with Vera Longtoe Sheehan.

 August 18 - Fort #4, Living History Museum,
Charleton, NH  "Atlatl & Native Heritage Weekend"   

Members of the Western Massachusetts Atlatl Association join with members of Elnu (Western Abenaki) for a weekend of atlatl and native heritage culture demonstrations.

 August 25 - Boston Children's Museum, Boston, Ma.  "Meet the Artist" Enjoy a day of Native American culture and art In the morning meet many of the artists currently transform these natural materials into works of art. In the afternoon, join workshop or demonstration with the artists to learn more and even try using the materials yourself.    October TBA- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, "Learn to Twine a Bag, " Vergennes, VT

Join Vera Longtoe Sheehan in a "Learn to Twine a Bag" class.

 November 2 American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY "A Night a the Museum"

 December 5 - Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT., "How to Twine a Bag," for beginners.