Name: Artist Talk: Native Arts and Culture Keeping
Start: 2025-11-15T00:45:00.000Z
Location: University of Michigan Museum of Art

**It’s finally Friday, and you deserve to Feel Good!**

**November is Feel Good Frybread, an evening open to all celebrating Indigenous communities, hosted by UMMA, The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs’ Native American Heritage Month Committee, and U-M’s Native American Student Association. And yes, there will be frybread!**

**🗓️ Friday, Nov 14th**
**⏰ 7-10 pm**
**📍 UMMA**
**🎟️ FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC**

**Come experience the culminating event for Andrea Carlson: Future Cache, the UMMA exhibition that has been a catalyst of collaborations across the region to welcome and uplift Native communities and students since it opened in June 2022.**

**Featuring an artist panel on Indigenous Futurism with Andrea Carlson, Frank Waln, and Debra Yepa-Pappan and a musical performance by Frank Waln, frybread by Eva and Robin Menefee of Anishnabe Meejim, book giveaways, hands-on art making with Heron Hill Designs, and more!**

**Discover it all by clicking the link in below!**
**[https://umma.umich.edu/events/feel-good-friday-feel-good-frybread-2/](https://umma.umich.edu/events/feel-good-friday-feel-good-frybread-2/)**
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**Presented in partnership with the Native American Student Association, Native American Heritage Month Committee and the Office for Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs.**

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Feel Good Friday: Feel Good Frybread 

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**Join artists, educators, & world builders Andrea Carlson, Frank Waln, and Debra Yepa-Pappan for a dynamic discussion on Indigenous Futurism(s) — a movement that transcends colonial boundaries to envision expanded possibilities for Indigenous realities.**

**🎉 This culminating event for “Andrea Carlson: Future Cache” celebrates the close of the exhibition with an evening of reflection, creativity, and community at UMMA.**

**🗓️ Friday, Nov 14th**
**⏰ 7:45–9 PM**
**📍 UMMA**
**🎟️ Free & open to the public**

**Through their diverse practices and deep connections with tribal communities, Indigenous organizations, galleries, and public arts spaces, these artists will share how art serves as a powerful lens to honor our past, nurture our present, and imagine a thriving future.**

**Come for the conversation or stay for the full Feel Good Frybread evening — a celebration of Indigenous creativity, community, and joy. ✨**
**This panel is presented in partnership with the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.**

**Learn more link below.**
**[https://umma.umich.edu/events/artist-talk-native-arts-and-culture-keeping/](https://umma.umich.edu/events/artist-talk-native-arts-and-culture-keeping/)**

**Presented as part of Feel Good Frybread, an evening open to all celebrating Indigenous communities, hosted by UMMA, MESA’s Native American Heritage Month Committee, and U-M’s Native American Student Association.**

Artist Talk: Native Arts and Culture Keeping

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