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News Release The Policing Project at New York University School of Law A group of Indigenous rights, social justice, and environmental advocates filed a lawsuit

Emerging Indigenous artists are mixing tradition with an urgent, organized message

Klamath tribal member Ka’ila Farrell-Smith is one of four contemporary Indigenous artists featured in the new show MESH at the Portland Art Museum. Her works in the exhibition are a part of a series of 27 paintings called Land Back, named after the contemporary movement advocating for Indigenous sovereignty.

Oregon Cultural Trust awards more than $3.2 million in 20th anniversary year

Three Oregon Artists Win $35,000 Fellowships

Three Oregon artists were named 2021 Hallie Ford Fellows this week, culled from some 198 applicants, and working across disciplines from installations to paintings to film. Portlanders Rainen Knecht and rubén garcía marrufo, and Ka’ila Farrell-Smith from Modoc Point were all announced by the Ford Family Foundation as winners of the $35,000 fellowships. The fellowship was started after Ford Family Foundation co-founder Hallie Ford’s death in 2007. Each of these Oregon based artists had to show a sophistication and evolution within their work, as well as the potential to continue producing impactful, quality art. Farell-Smith relocated to Modoc Point to live her goal of refocusing her art on decolonial freedom and embracing her ancestral indigenous traditions. Her art moves between traditional indigenous style and western practices to “heal and bring forth resiliency” in her community. She uses objects such as bullets, metal, and machine parts she finds thro

Critical Art

Mika Aono and Neal Williams making prints. Photo by Kathleen Caprario. Lane Community College art instructor Kathleen Caprario was a textile design artist in New York City before she moved to Oregon. When she came to Eugene in the late ’70s her attention turned from textiles to landscapes. In A Critical Conversation, at Eugene Contemporary Art’s ANTI-AESTHETIC gallery through March 21, she merges her interest in pattern and the environment with the topic of race.   Sponsored by a Black Lives Matter artist grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and a 2020 Lane Arts artist grant, the gallery show features work by eleven artists and four poets, as well as two panel discussions and a March 6 screen print performance.