Stories Told by Breath will be on display at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design Tuesday-Saturday until September 26, 2026. This exhibition celebrates the creativity, memory, and cultural continuity of Native American artists connected to North Carolina. 

The exhibition brings together a rich range of media—clay, beadwork, textiles, printmaking, regalia, sculpture, and multimedia—woven with storytelling to form a vibrant experience of artistic practice in North Carolina.

Artists include Senora Lynch (Haliwa-Saponi), Karina McMillan (Lumbee), Harlen Chavis (Lumbee), Aaron Baumgardner (Catawba),Coda Cavalier (Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation), Amy Postoak (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)& Johnny Postoak (Muscogee Creek)of Three Sisters Designs, Rhiannon “Skye” Tafoya (Eastern Band of Cherokee & Santa Clara Pueblo), Joshua Adams (Eastern Band of Cherokee), Idalis Dial (Coharie), Tim Locklear (Lumbee), NC State students Ashtyn Thomas (Lumbee) and Victoria Wilson (Haliwa-Saponi), Gwen Locklear (Lumbee) and Alexandra Williams portrait photographs of Powwows at Dix Park. Together, these artists explore heritage, craft, and storytelling as a living continuum of creativity, connecting ancestral knowledge with contemporary expression.