Exquisite Gorge II: It’s a Wrap!
Friderike Heuer
August 8, 2022
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
For Maryhill Museum’s Columbia Gorge project, fiber artist Bonnie Meltzer explores electricity and its effect on the river and the land.
Columbia Gorge fiber artist Chloë Hight leads a biological exploration of the river system and the plants that thrive there, giving art and life.
In her section of Maryhill Museum’s collaborative Columbia River art project, Carolyn Hazel Drake explores a world of transitions.
In praise of the hands and minds behind a massive museum yarn-bombing, and the parade of poppies that bring light and remembrance.
Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.
Married artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Owen Premore bring a collaboration of diverse approaches to Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River art project.
Fiber artist Lynn Deal stitches history, culture, and social issues into her section of Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River craft art project.
Artist Ophir El-Boher and Desert Fiber Art interweave ideas of consumption, extraction, fashion, and refashioning.
Artist Xander Griffith, part of Maryhill Museum’s collaborative Columbia River project, makes deeply dotted works in felt that create worlds of color and texture.
From Oaxaca to Oregon, Laura and Francisco Bautista continue a tradition of weaving that has endured for more than 2,000 years.
Part 2: Friderike Heuer visits Kristy Kún, whose fantastic felt forms suggest something mythological.
The bellwether: In Maryhill Museum’s second collaborative art project along a 220-mile stretch of the Columbia River – this one by fiber artists – sheep and their wool lead the way.
Maryhill Museum’s “Exquisite Gorge II” throws a party. Who is and isn’t getting ahead in the ballet world. Geezer Gallery gets a new home. A Portland artist’s child faces a health crisis.
As Columbia Gorge print day approaches, artist and veteran Drew Cameron talks about art and war.
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER How does an artist decide which questions to raise and which, if any, answers to provide? How does an educator reach an audience and communicate innovative ideas hoping to stir up responses that foster curiosity and
At the clifftop museum overlooking the Columbia Gorge, two new exhibitions follow the river’s flow for 300 miles to create art of the land, water, and Northwest cultures.
New leadership is coming to the Columbia Gorge museum. Plus: Send in the Clowns Without Borders; an –Ism book launch; Central Library takes a break; last call at the Portland Art Museum; cultural caucus grows.
The opening of the Reser Center in Beaverton and the cautious return to post-pandemic “normal” top a vigorous year of arts events in Oregon.
In a year of sharp contrasts, visual art in Oregon bounced between the stark and the hopeful, with plenty of surprises along the way.
Theatrical barbecue, skeleton piano, down on the sheep farm, Troubles in Belfast, schools & Congress, bustle of books, a galaxy far far away.
Bobby Bermea talks with the Portland rising star of stage and song about her musical passion and her new album, “Happy Girl.”
OSU’s touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.
When Greg Archuleta realized the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde didn’t have any cultural education classes, he created them himself.
Photogs Zeb Andrews, Susan de Witt, Julie Moore, Motoya Nakamura, Deb Stoner on work during pandemic.
Charles Burt charts a course from the rigors of military life to the rigors of an art academy.
An invitation to be a part of ArtsWatch, plus what’s new with centenarians Lenny and Merce.
We stumble upon a Hall of Fame inductee, learn about joiking and konnakol, and hear from the audients.
I went and heard the oldest orchestra west of the Mississippi perform live six times during the first half of this year, from January’s Brahms v. Radiohead mashup to May’s season-closing Mahler’s Seventh Symphony. That’s more than once a month. By comparison,
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