Art For Indigenous Survival – Events

We see our mission as building communication and knowledge between Indigenous People and our home area of Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh, North Carolina. We have produced videos of each of our trips, had art shows in North Carolina, talked to schools, colleges, churches and retirement communities. During the past 18 years, we have taught Soft Sculpture to the Lakota at Pine Ridge, S.D., the BriBri and Kekoldi in Costa Rica, the Innu of Labrador, the Chippewa/Ojibway of Turtle Mountain, N.D., the Navajo of Shiprock, N.M., the Cherokee of North Carolina, the Quileute of Washington State, the Arapaho of Wind River, Wy., the Anishinaabeg of White Earth, Minn., and the Occaneechi of Orange County, N.C. We always make sewn life-size sculptures of their indigenous animals, birds, fish or reptiles - i.e. Bald Eagles, Buffalo Heads, Iguanas, Caribou Heads, Great Blue Herons, Scarlet Macaws, Black Bear and Wolf Heads, to name a few. We do one trip a year for a full month and head up to Ontario, Golden Lake and the Algonquin people this coming October.