Westbound
Adults looking for art enrichment programs are invited to join AMWA for the bi-monthly book club, Westbound. Every other month, AMWA staff will choose a book that focuses on themes from art history, Indigenous perspectives, and Western frontier history. Both fiction and non-fiction titles will be featured. Westbound meets the second Tuesday of every other month to discuss the book in AMWA’s art galleries. Pre-registration and tickets are required. Tickets are $5 each. Each meeting is limited to fifteen guests.
2025 Westbound book selections and dates:
January 14 – The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West, John Branch
March 11 – O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
May 13 – Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir, Deborah A. Miranda
July 8 – Go as a River, Shelley Read
September 9 – Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
November 11 – The Painted Drum, Louise Erdrich
Places to find Westbound books:
Free resources:
Local libraries and library e-reader apps like Libby
Internet Archive