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Explore the absence of the native story in American Art on March 9

Join the UAB community for an open panel discussion on viewing the absence of the native story in American art.

AfricaArtJoomlaThe UAB community will explore the absence of the native story in American Art featuring an open panel discussion in conjunction with the exhibition. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Ed.D., tribal archivist for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, will join a panel discussion on Native History in American Art in conjunction with the exhibition, Focus IV: Eclipse of the Hudson River School, Selections from the Koleszar Collection on March 9.

The reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the panel discussion following at 6 p.m. in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, 1221 10th Ave. S.

Panelists include:

  • Deidra Suwanee Dees, Ed.D., director, tribal archivist, Poarch Band of Creek Indians
  • Tina Kempin Reuter, Ph.D., director of Institute for Human Rights, UAB
  • Oakleigh Pinson, guest co-curator, Focus IV Exhibition, AEIVA

The lecture is free and open to the public.

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