A new art exhibit explores contemporary identity by bringing together two artists with very different backgrounds and one thing in common: being Lumbee.
鈥溾�� is a multidimensional art exhibit at the featuring the art of and . Minner is a community-based visual artist and a member of Baltimore鈥檚 Lumbee community. Her art featured in this exhibit is called 鈥淭he Exquisite Lumbees,鈥� a series of portraits of Lumbee people in the Baltimore community. Monroe is an artist from Robeson County, North Carolina and her work features symbolic colorful paintings. Even though these two women live 400 miles apart and have different artistic styles, there are connections between their works.
Host Frank Stasio talks to Monroe and Minner about their art and what contemporary Lumbee identity means to them. 鈥溾�� is open to view at the Center for the Study of the American South in Chapel Hill until mid December, and the is October 6 at the Center.
