Tomaguag Museum hosts TEK Walks with Matthew Bigos

Traditional Ecological Walk with Matthew Bigos (Schaghticoke): "Hands On: Gathering Materials and Manufacturing Tools for the Winter Season"

About this event

In the TEK Walks, Indigenous Educators will share Traditional Ecological Knowledge as the group walks in the environment around Tomaquag Museum known today as Arcadia Management Area, but is the homelands to the Narragansett Nation.

Matthew Bigos is a museum professional, graphic designer, and exhibit designer. A citizen of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, whose reservation lands are located next to the town of Kent, Connecticut alongside the Housatonic River. Matt draws inspiration from his tribal elders, who include the late Scholar Trudie Lamb-Richmond, to expand his knowledge of traditional tool making, hunting and fishing materials, and weaponry. Matt’s graphic design specialties include business branding and apparel graphics. His exhibit designs have been featured in cultural institutions such as Mystic Seaport, Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum; and most recently the We Are The Seeds-Philadelphia exhibit space. Matt’s designs are contemporary, decolonized, and from a progressive Native perspective.