“Moon Mother” is awarded 1st place in the adult painting division at the art show in the 2024 Kananesgi Fashion Show, theme “Feminine Roots”

Click here to donate to the Qualla Boundary Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women organization. This grass roots organization is sponsored by the Center for Native Health (501c3).

“Private Property” now on view in the McClung Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate. Check out Homelands: Connecting to Mounds through Native Art art by 17 incredible native artists! January 2025–December 2027

Atsei Cooper on Homelands: Connecting to mounds through Native art, by Todd Stedd at WUOT 91.9 FM Knoxville, TN. January 23, 2025.

McClung staff, EBCI THPO NAGPRA officer, and Homelands artists participate on a panel at the 11th annual Cherokee Archaeological Symposium October 2024

“Disruption” shakes up Museum of the Cherokee Indian exhibit, photo and article by Scott McKie of the Cherokee One Feather 2022.

Inaugural Indigenous Logic Model Cohort with the Center for Native Health. Photo taken by Kilyne Oocumma.

University of Tennessee Knoxville graduate student profile.

Atsei Cooper is selected as lead artist by the Museum of the Cherokee People for the Cultural District Public Arts Project funded by the Z. Smith Reynolds Grant, 2023

“The Art of Reclamation” by Maggie Palmer, Torchbearer Magazine. University of Tennessee Knoxville, May 2025.

Conservation Corp North Carolina 2024 LinkedIn post. Historic dairy bottle from 1914 found at Kituwah Mother Town.