Scott Strong Hawk Foster

Scott Strong Hawk Foster, 'Scrapping, Herring Pond', 09/03/23, archival inkjet photograph

“My ethos as an Indigenous artist is to represent my family and my community authentically, to record compelling images that make known the true stories of our heritage, values, and oral traditions, and to attest to how we are thriving today. This is ‘the why’ behind what I do.”

– Scott Strong Hawk Foster

Scott Strong Hawk Foster is a Native American photographer whose proud roots include Hassanamisco Nipmuc, Mohegan, and Cherokee lineage. His Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative (CMAI) installation exhibits several photographs from his ongoing series, Ways of My Ancestors – We Are Still Here, which highlights the beauty, pride, and resilience of the Eastern Woodlands People of Southern New England. The selected photographs will predominantly feature Nipmuc(k) people, who are indigenous to Central Massachusetts as well as to northern Rhode Island and Connecticut.

The Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative is supported by the Don and Mary Melville Contemporary Art Fund and John M. Nelson Fund.

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Audio

Listen to the artist, the people featured in his photographs, and other members of the Nipmuc(k) community discuss Strong Hawk’s ongoing series, Ways of My Ancestors – We Are Still Here. Check back as more interviews will be added during the course of the exhibition.