This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.

 Amarillo Museum of Art and Panhandle PBS present a lunchtime film series each Wednesday in February.  Enjoy lunch at the Museum while viewing PBS content on Native American perspectives on identity, the buffalo, and more.  The events will include a Gallery Talk with the Museum’s curator on the exhibition, “In Our Own Words: Native Impressions.”  For more information, visit amoa.org or call 806-371-5050.

 Amarillo Museum of Art, 3rd floor Library
Each Wednesday in February
11:45 Free Lunch (while they last)
12:00 Film Screening
12:30 Gallery Talk with Curator on the exhibit,
“In Our Own Words: Native Impressions”

This 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 as well as local and national PBS content around the Ken Burns film, “The American Buffalo,” the series is free of charge and open to the public.

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