The 9 th Annual Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival is taking place November 20-23, 2025 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. The festival aims to raise awareness around Native American language, cultures, and societies through films that share Native...

Join NIRC's "Lunch and Learn" speaker series to hear about Tribal engagements across grounds. On December 3, Rachel Evans Lloyd, Senior Landscape Architect in the University’s Office of the Architect, will provide a detailed update on the Park at University Avenue that is being developed with Native...

Prof. Pio Saqui (Mopan), University of Belize Contemporary Mopan Maya: Language, culture, and integration in the developing nation of Belize Mopan Maya is a group of lowland Maya that still practices their traditional way of life, closely tied to shifting agriculture. Oral transmission of...

Join us on Saturday, February 17 for a free, one-day New City Arts symposium at The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center organized by Meesha Goldberg with local artists, community leaders, and the descendants of Sacajawea, inquiring into the diverse ways we memorialize the past in...

Celebrate the opening of the Kluge-Ruhe's latest exhibition, Shifting Ground: Prints by Indigenous Australian Artists from the Basil Hall Editions Workshop Proofs Collection, open March 9 2024 to March 2, 2025, curated by Jess Hutchens (Palyku), the inaugural First Nations Curatorial Fellow at Kluge...

Learn about the artworks in Shifting Ground and close to the wind from master printmaker Basil Hall and resident artist Lisa Waup. RSVP required. Read more here.

Land, Liberty and Loyalties: Virginia Indian Participation in the Revolutionary War (Nov 10, 2026): A free lecture at the Library of Virginia in Richmond featuring anthropologist Ashley Spivey, Ph.D., and historian Katie Gibson, M.A., exploring the individual choices and roles of Virginia tribal...

Native Voices: Speaking with Virginia’s Federally Recognized Nations This in-person panel session features representatives from the 7 federally recognized Tribal Nations in Virginia discussing how history, policy, and culture have impacted their Indigenous communities. Register here