THE NEA BIG READ AMHERST COUNTY VIRGINIA KICKOFF EVENT:
 ​Karenne Wood, Virginia Poet, Mother, Monacan,
​Scholar and Historian

(All events are open to the public free of charge.)

​Panel Discussion: 
Life and Work
of Karenne Wood

2:30 pm Sunday, March 13, 2022
Hamble Center
Amherst County Museum
154 South Main St., Amherst, VA
Introduction: Kenneth Branham,
Chief of The Monacan Nation
  • Diane Shields, Chair/Director, Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation
  • David Bearinger, Senior Director, Grants and Global Virginia Programs, Virginia Humanities
  • Adrienne Brown, Karenne Wood’s daughter
  • Teresa Pollak, Wood’s friend and Monacan activist
  • Octavia Starbuck, Director of Amherst County Museum and Historical Society
  • Winona Gear, Monacan tribal member and ACMHS intern
  • Marcia Robertson, scholar and teacher will introduce the NEA Big Read Amherst County, Virginia project​

Accompanying Exhibits
Sunday, March 13, 2022,
1-2:15 pm & 4-5 pm
Main Amherst County Museum,
154 S. Main St. Amherst, VA.
  • Temporary Exhibit on Karenne Wood: Personal items including regalia & bead work.
  • Touring Exhibit on Karenne Wood’s Life and Work: Created to tour Amherst County with NEA Big Read Amherst County project.
  • Touring Exhibit on Joy Harjo’s Life and Work: Created to tour Amherst County with NEA Big Read Amherst County project.
  • Formal Opening, ACMHS Exhibit: The Monacan People
    ​Pre- and Post- Contact Era
Please contact Octavia Starbuck
if you have any questions:
434-946-9068
(Tues.-Fri. 10 am-4 pm.)
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) arts and Humanities Projects in 2021-2022 are funded as follows::
 
AGAR’s concerts are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts,
and The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg.
This project is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are also funded in part by CENTRA and Amherst Woman’s Club.
 
The Digital Residency by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., organized in partnership with Cecilia Smith and
Lafayette Harris, Jr., has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America through its Residency Endowment Fund. These concerts are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health and CVACL, Lynchburg; Virginia Commonwealth University Health in Richmond, Tappahannock, and South Hill; and to Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 
The NEA BIG READ is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
 
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported in part by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
and Virginia Humanities (VH).

Funding for a VH/SHARP grant to AGAR has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities
​through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.
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