On Wednesday, March 10, from 4-5:30 p.m. join guest curator Michael Holloman as he speaks about the exhibition Follow the River: Portraits of the Columbia Plateau, which presents portraiture of Plateau tribal members as commissioned in the mid-1930s by former Washington State College President Ernest O. Holland. As a counterpoint, tremendous Plateau cultural materials are included from the WSU Museum of Anthropology, as well as the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane. The program will revisit these documentary paintings while showing tribal permanence in the region. As many Nez Perce (and Plateau) peoples were painted on the Colville Indian Reservation at the time, . » More .
Exhibition Dates: March 9 – August 14 A coda to the proceeding Follow the Sun: The Holland and Orton Collections exhibition, Follow the River: Portraits of the Columbia Plateau will reframe the museum’s Worth D. Griffin Collection of Native portraiture alongside cultural materials from Plateau tribes including the Palus (Palouse) and Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) whose homelands the Washington State University Pullman campus is located upon. In the summer of 1936, Washington State College (WSC) Fine Arts Department Chair Worth D. Griffin (with the support of WSC President E. O. Holland and the Board of Regents) began an ambitious series of oil on canvas portraits of . » More .
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Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation s gift to fund art gallery, expanded capacity
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) The Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation is awarding $6 million to the High Desert Museum, the largest single donation in the museum’s nearly 40-year history, the museum announced Thursday.
“The museum is coming up on our 40
th anniversary next year, and this gift is really ready to launch us for the next 40 years,” said Dana Whitelaw, Ph.D, the museum s executive director.
Officials said in the announcement that the gift will support the long-term vision for the future of the museum, which includes more capacity for educational programming, immersive experiences, and in collaboration with Tribal partners, an update of the Museum’s permanent exhibition on the past and present of the Indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau,
Covering an area of 254,806 sq. km, the State of Oregon is located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
As observed on the map, the Pacific Ocean coastline of the state is occupied by the rugged mountains (some over 1,000 ft. high), moist rainforests, and fertile valleys. In the southern part, the land rises into the Coastal Mountain Range and the Klamath Mountains. Both of these mountain ranges are a series of relatively low and heavily-forested peaks, that are in turn punctuated by numerous small lakes.
Situated directly to the east of these mountains is the Willamette Lowlands – that stretch south, about 175 miles from the Portland area. This fertile strip of land is dissected by the Willamette River which rises in the Cascades and then flows north draining into the Columbia River.
Depleted salmon runs and the federal government’s failure to improve fishing sites had already impacted important harvests; now, COVID is making it even harder for Native Americans to fish along the Columbia River. This story originally appeared on Underscore.news