2025 Indigenous Canoe Makers and Event Activities

This year’s event highlights Indigenous maritime cultural arts traditions in the Dawnland, including the creation, 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. Imagine Studios is honored and pleased to be a 2025 grant recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts “Public Art for Spatial Justice” initiative for “The Merrimack Mishoon Project!”

See below for public muhsh8n making events September 14-october 4th at the Custom House Museum and the inaugural launch and paddle, Saturday, October 11^th at Waterfront Park! Watch the mishoon being burned and shaped!!

Schedule of Public Muhsh8n Making and Cultural Programs @ Custom House Maritime Museum and Newburyport Waterfront Park:

9/14 12-4pm placement of canoe and start of public mishoon making/burning

9/20-22 public mishoon making, 10-4pm

9/20  public mishoon making and CHMM youth programs, 10-1pm

9/26-29, 10-4pm public mishoon making

9/27 public mishoon making and CHMM youth programs, 10-1pm

10/3 public mishoon making and Newburyport high school Global Classroom field trip

10/3, 6:30pm free 1st Friday cultural program @ CHMM with Darius Coombs, Jonathan James Perry and mishoon maker apprentices

Join us Saturday October 4th, Fundraising Dinner with celebrity Wampanoag (James Beard Award Winner) Chef Sherry Pocknett at the Custom House Maritime Museum. See below or FB for more info and tickets.

---

---

---

Jason Pardillo‘s Aputamkon (birch bark canoe).

---

---

---

Music courtesy of Larry Spotted Crow Mann

---

---

Donations Gratefully Accepted

---

---

Contact Imagine Studios for More Information

(978) 834-0367 / kristine@imaginestudios.org