Sitting at a long white table across from two women inside the Lam Museum of Anthropology on the campus of Wake Forest University on Saturday afternoon, Tamra Hunt reaches across lines of watercolor paints and containers of markers to gesture in wide circles at the blank paper between them. Born and raised in Greensboro, Hunt is a member of the Lumbee tribe and a longtime arts educator in the Triad.
“As an Indigenous artist, I feel connected with the Earth and with my God when I paint,” she says of her work. With its bright colors and organic shapes, her contemporary abstract art is both bold and accessible.
Tamra’s process is not one-sided. Rather, she connects with the physical manifestation of her artistic impetus on a deep level, resulting in an intuitive discourse between herself and the canvas.
“I allow the paint to communicate with me,” she says.
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