2026 Indigenous Canoe Makers

This year’s event highlights Indigenous maritime cultural arts traditions in the Dawnland, including the ceremonial launch and paddle on the Merrimack River of a traditional hand crafted muhsh8n (mishoon dugout canoe) made by Darius Coombs and Jonathan James Perry and Jason Pardilla’s Aputamkon  (birch bark canoe).

Imagine Studios is honored to have been a 2025 grant recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts “Public Art for Spatial Justice” initiative for “The Merrimack Mishoon Project!”


Jason Pardillo‘s Aputamkon (birch bark canoe).


Learn about the Merrimack Mishoon burning from Darius Coombs
The Merrimack Mishoon is taking shape




Celebrating the Arrival of the Mishoon in Newburyport

Music courtesy of Larry Spotted Crow Mann


Mishoon Arrives in Newburyport

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