Wesleyan art professor Kate TenEyck, artist and leader of the TunnelVision Project (https://tunnelvisionmiddletown.com/), an epic community mosaic reconnecting Harbor Park and Main Street

 

Gary O’Neil (Red Oak), Wangunk elder, potter, and educator, whose pottery pays tribute to his Wangunk ancestors and is being incorporated into the TunnelVision mosaic

 

Middletown-based artist Wendy Black-Nasta, who is incorporating 3-D printed Wangunk objects from Wesleyan’s Archaeology Collections into her panels of the TunnelVision mosaic, honoring the Wangunk and other First Nations of Connecticut

 

Dr. Katherine Hermes, Publisher and Executive Director at Connecticut Explored, who has taught at Central Connecticut State University in the History Department since 1997 and served as Department Chair from 2012-2018. Dr. Hermes has taught and published extensively on Native American history in New England. With Gary O’Neil, she will provide historical background on the Wangunk.

 

Moderator: Dr. Jesse Nasta, Executive Director of the Middlesex County Historical Society and Assistant Professor of the Practice in African American Studies, Wesleyan University