July 28, 2016Comments are off for this post.

First Exhibition at UNCP Entrepreneurship Incubator

Artists Jessica Clark, Ashley Minner, Isaac Dial, and Dayona Johnson teamed up to produce the first ever art exhibition at the UNCP Entrepreneurship Incubator in downtown Pembroke, North Carolina during Lumbee Homecoming 2016. Works by all four artists, as well as Panamanian artists Gustavo Esquina de la Espada and Manuel Golden, were installed.

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The opening reception on July 1, 2016 was well attended. An art market featuring the work of local artists will now take place in the space on a monthly basis.

March 29, 2016Comments are off for this post.

Contemporary Southeastern Native Artists Panel

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As part of UNC Pembroke’s Native American Speakers Series, a panel of American Indian artists will discuss the topic of Southeastern Native art on Thursday, March 31 at 7 pm in the University Center Annex. The panel includes:

- America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), a painter, printmaker, educator, and editor of First American Art Magazine;
- Jessica Clark (Lumbee), a Robeson County painter and educator;
- Ashley Minner (Lumbee), a community-based visual artist and scholar from Baltimore, Maryland; and
- Terry White, a Lumbee artist from Robeson County.
Admission is free, and the event is open to the public.

The event is hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies and the Southeast American Indian Studies Program, and sponsored by PNC Bank.

For more information:
Phone: 910.521.6266
Email: ais@uncp.edu
Web: www.uncp.edu/ais

September 26, 2015Comments are off for this post.

UNCP Native Speakers Series 2015

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Ashley Minner is pleased to have been invited- along with America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), a painter, printmaker, educator, and editor of First American Art Magazine, Jessica Clark (Lumbee), a Robeson County painter and educator, and Terry White, a Lumbee artist from Robeson County- to participate on a panel on Contemporary Southeastern Native Art as part of the University of North Carolina's 2015-16 Native Speakers Series.

The series features nationally recognized American Indian scholars and artists who will delve into diverse topics and issues including Lumbee history, Native cuisine, health and wellness and Southeastern Native art.

Admission to the series is free, and it is open to the public.

Native Artists Panel
March 31, 2016
7:00 p.m.
University Center Annex

This event is sponsored by PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.. Other sponsors include the Department of American Indian Studies, Museum of the Southeast American Indian, the Southeast American Indian Studies Program and the Office of Academic Affairs. For more information, email ais@uncp.edu, or call 910.521.6266.

October 9, 2014Comments are off for this post.

Baltimore’s Exquisite Lumbees Go Home to Carolina

10 of the Exquisite Lumbees portraits have a new home in the Southeast American Indian Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. A big THANK YOU goes to my friend, Mr. Lawrence Locklear (Lumbee), the Coordinator of SAIS at UNCP.

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Mr. Craymon Strickland Sr. (Lumbee) assisting with installation at UNCP

Learn more about the history of our Tribal College by watching this video:

Or by reading Lawrence's book, Hail to UNCP! A 125-Year History of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke