Join Amarillo Museum of Art and Panhandle PBS for an on-campus series of films, art and free lunch each Wednesday in February.
This event series explores Native American perspectives on identity, storytelling, the buffalo, and more. Designed to connect the Amarillo Museum of Art’s new exhibition, “In Our Own Words: Native Impressions” with local and national Panhandle PBS content around the Ken Burns film, “The American Buffalo,” the series is free of charge and open to the public.
This series will be held in the third-floor library at the Amarillo Museum of Art, located at 2200 S. Van Buren. Each event will begin at 11:45 a.m. with a free lunch while supplies last, followed by a 12:00 film screening and a 12:30 gallery talk on the exhibit, “In Our Own Words: Native Impressions.”
February 7: Ken Burns “The American Buffalo” – Segments of the Ken Burns film tracing the mammal’s evolution, its significance to the Great Plains, and its relationship to the Indigenous People of North America.
February 14: “Strong Spirit,” Episode One – Local Panhandle PBS production featuring the Goodnight buffalo herd at Caprock Canyons State Park and how bison impact the ecosystem.
February 21: “Homecoming” – New PBS film directed by Julianna Brannum extending the story of “The American Buffalo” to the present by examining the return of buffalo to Indigenous lands today, with additional new content from Panhandle PBS on Native American representation in cultural and historical institutions.
February 28: “Strong Spirit,” Episode Two – Local Panhandle PBS production exploring the way Native Americans use storytelling to pass down tribal knowledge and traditions.
For more information about “In Our Own Words: Native Impressions,” contact the Amarillo Museum of Art at (806)371-5050 or amoa@actx.edu. For more information about “The American Buffalo,” or local content like “Strong Spirit,” visit panhandlePBS.org/AmericanBuffalo.
