TNAS x Raleigh Arts: Wheat pasting
The Art of Native Regalia - A partnership with Raleigh Arts
July 2025-October 2025
Photo by Jocelyn Painter
Raleigh Arts and the Triangle Native American Society collaborated on a temporary public art project celebrating the art of Regalia - images from the Dix Park Intertribal Powwow. These murals use the natural adhesive of wheat paste - an accessible, street-art technique that uses flour and water to temporarily paste public art images onto approved public spaces. This collaborative public art event is a unique opportunity to share Indigenous culture, community, and art making through temporary art in public spaces.
TNAS volunteers helping wheat paste
With the help of Triangle Native members we put up several large portraits around the Moore Square Bus Station in Raleigh, NC. These portraits showcase all the the Native American dancers that came out for the Dix Park Inter-Tribal Pow Wow. Overtime the portraits will naturally degrade with time and weather, adding another complex layer, and is completely biodegradable. You can view the photos starting August throughout October 2025 with more popping up throughout the city.
About the Photographer:
Alexandra Williams is a photographer and aura reader based in Raleigh, NC. Her work explores themes of empowerment, self-love, freedom, and spirituality through portraiture. She approaches photography as a sacred act—an invitation to be seen, celebrated, and transformed.
Through candid, soulful imagery, Alexandra creates space for subjects to embody their essence and explore new ways of presenting themselves to the world. Her recent experience documenting the Dix Pow-Wow reflects her reverence for cultural storytelling and the deep spiritual energy she seeks to honor in every frame.
“Photographing the Dix Pow-Wow was an experience I’ll carry with me forever. The energy, the rhythm, the ancestral presence—it was more than a celebration; it was a prayer in motion. To witness and honor that through my lens was a deep privilege.”
