Stories Told by Breath: Native American Voices in North Carolina
Date: Thu, Sep 3, 2026
Time: 10am-5pm
Venue: Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh
Price: Free
Category: Arts
Stories Told by Breath: Native American Voices in North Carolina is a multi-vocal exhibition that honors the creativity, memory and cultural continuity upheld by Native American artists connected to North Carolina. Rooted in deep relationships with land, kinship networks, craft traditions, and the layered histories of this region, the artworks in this exhibition illuminate stories that continue to move, evolve and breathe. Across generations and tribal nations, the artists in Stories Told by Breath embody a living continuum of creativity. Their work shows that cultural traditions endure not because they are frozen in time, but because they are continually renewed—through hands that gather river clay, weave longleaf pine, bead contemporary regalia, shape digital compositions, and interpret the world through light, sound, and movement. Each work offers a moment of breath: an exchange between past and present, between ancestral knowledge and contemporary expression. Through these works, audiences encounter heritage as a living force, craft as a cultural language, and material as a repository of memory and meaning. These stories become both a form of survival and a testament to the creative lineage that shapes Native communities in North Carolina and, more broadly, across the Southeast.
