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This featured trio from Indigenous Summer bridges tradition and innovation, each using their medium to honor the past while shaping the future.

🪡Kianga Lucas 
With over 20 years of beadwork experience, Kianga stitches color, tradition, and story into every piece. Her “Beaded Birch Bark Headband” incorporates birch bark and sweetgrass, while “Eastern Blanket Dancer” honors women who preserve the power and pride of Eastern Woodlands dances.

🎨Erick Krigsvold
A storyteller and self-taught digital artist, Erick reinterprets traditional Indigenous imagery for the modern era. His digital prints like “Okeus & Ahone” reclaim cultural narratives, while works such as “Racial Integrity” and screrenprinted collage, “Lost & Alone”, confront history and resilience with striking, contemporary visuals.

🪵Nathan Elliot
A fourth-generation woodworker, Nathan blends craft and symbolism in bowls, carvings, and jewelry. His “Turtle Bowl” carries the themes of longevity and wisdom, while works like “Intertribal” and “Peace Haudenosaunee” bring to life community, dialogue, and cultural endurance.

Indigenous Summer closes tomorrow! See it before it ends; on view now at the Suffolk Center Galleries through Saturday, September 13. Galleries are open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 AM–4 PM.

Featured Work
Erick Krigsvold
Okeus & Ahone, 2024 Digital Print
Racial Integrity, 2023 Digital Print
Lost & Alone, 2025 Screen Print Collage
Kianga Lucas
Beaded Birch Bark Headband, 2021 Glass seed beads, birch bark, sweetgrass, leather
Eastern Blanket Dancer, 2021 Glass seed beads, wampum, Swarovski crystals, leather
Nathan Elliot
Turtle Bowl, 2025 Cedar wood, feathers, leather
Intertribal, 2025 Bamboo
Peace Haudenosaunee, 2025 Silver, carved quahog clam shells
Large Navajo Bowl, 2025 Cedar wood with turkey feathers
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🎹✨They’ve played cruise ships, NBA halftime shows, sold-out arenas, and dueling piano bars nationwide.

Now, The Copper Piano: Dueling Pianos is bringing the party to Suffolk! 🎶🍷

This high-energy, interactive dinner show is part concert, part comedy- and completely powered by YOUR song requests. From Billy Joel to Beyoncé, every night is a brand-new setlist.

🗓Saturday, Sept. 20 | Doors 6:30 PM | Dinner 7:15 PM | Show 8 PM
📍Downstairs at The Center – Taylor Ballroom
🎟VIP & GA Tickets Available
🔗Tickets: suffolkcenter.org/the-copper-piano or at the link in our bio

📸 All photos courtesy of thecopperpiano.com

Presented with sponsorship from the Suffolk News Herald, with gratitude to our Premier Partners TowneBank and Birdsong Peanuts.

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Two voices, two visions. Only a few days left to see them. ✨

This week’s featured artists from Indigenous Summer showcase the next generation of Native artistry alongside reflections rooted in history. Bold acrylic portraits and graphite sketches balancing light and shadow.

🐎Joseph Badamo�
At just 16 years old, Joseph’s acrylic paintings speak with maturity and power. In “Iron Horse”, he captures the strength and resilience of both horse and people, using bold strokes and deep colors to symbolize courage across generations. His piece “Earth Mothers” honors the matriarchs who protect the balance of the land, their vibrant forms emerging as stewards of past, present, and future.

✏️Sequoyah Fortune (@sequoyahfortune)�
Sequoyah’s graphite works reveal a fascination with contrast and the gray space between. “Azrael (Angel of Death)” reinterprets European arrival through an Indigenous lens, blending symbolism of mortality and collision of worlds. In “Onion Head”, a whimsical figure balances humor and self-acceptance, reminding us of the joy in staying true to one’s nature.

You can experience this work, and more, in-person at Indigenous Summer, on view now at the Suffolk Center Galleries through Saturday, September 13. Galleries are open Tuesday–Saturday, 10 AM–4 PM.

Featured Work�
Joseph Badamo�
“Iron Horse”, 2025 Acrylic on card stock, 18 × 24” �
“Earth Mothers”, 2025 Acrylic on card stock, 18 × 24”
Sequoyah Fortune
�“Azrael (Angel of Death)”, 2025 Graphite on paper, 11.5 × 8” (frame 15.25 × 12.25”) �
“Onion Head”, 2025 Graphite on paper, 14 × 12” (frame 11 × 8”)

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🎹✨Dinner meets dueling keys and the audience runs the show.

At The Copper Piano: Dueling Pianos, you’re not just watching a show — you’re part of it. The music is fueled by your requests, the banter is quick and hilarious, and the sing-alongs are impossible to resist. From Billy Joel to Beyoncé, no two nights are ever the same.

🍽️Start the evening with a full buffet dinner, then enjoy as two world-class pianists battle it out in a high-energy showdown powered by the crowd.

🥂Want to level up? Our VIP experience includes champagne at your table, snacks, dinner, and premium seating for the best view of the action.

🗓Saturday, Sept. 20 | Doors 6:30 PM | Show 8 PM
📍Downstairs at The Center – Taylor Ballroom
🎟 GA & VIP Available
🔗Tickets: suffolkcenter.org/the-copper-piano or at the link in our bio

This event is proudly sponsored by the Suffolk News Herald, with gratitude to our Premier Partners TowneBank and Birdsong Peanuts.

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