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.
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.
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.
It all came together under the sun: Maryhill Museum’s audacious, 66-foot long print went to press via steam roller.
As Columbia Gorge print day approaches, artist and veteran Drew Cameron talks about art and war.
As the print date for Maryhill Museum’s Columbia River project approaches, its artists think about the mix of maps and territory.
Printmaker Molly Gaston Johnson follows Lewis & Clark’s westward path to make her mark on theColumbia River project.
Grand Ronde tribes’ Greg Archuleta links past and future in Maryhill’s Columbia Gorge print project.
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STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER I have on previous occasions written on this or that aspect of Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington, which I like to visit as often as I can. An eclectic collection of paintings, fashion, artifacts of some Eastern
When Greg Archuleta realized the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde didn’t have any cultural education classes, he created them himself.
A look back at the ups and downs and curious side trips of the year in Oregon culture.
Plus: It’s a print in the Gorge, a paint-out at the coast, dance for a prince, a Woody Guthrie opera. The week in Oregon arts.
The beloved Willamette University professor often reminded students ‘the work of the art historian is never done.’ Mentee and friend Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander reflects on Hull’s life and lasting legacy.
Bobby Bermea talks with the Portland rising star of stage and song about her musical passion and her new album, “Happy Girl.”
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.
An exhibit of the Japanese American artist’s sculptures is strategically placed amid the garden. Do they fit into this reflective space? Decisively, yes.
October means falling leaves and the return of Portland TextileX Month. Lindsay Costello’s VizArts Monthly has October’s art to see and events to attend.
OSU’s touring Art About Agriculture exhibit, now at Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, explores the ways we grow and eat our food.
The director of “the biggest documentary sensation of the summer” tells the volcanic tale of creating a film about fire and ice.
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.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Whole lotta talent goin’ on; TBA takes the spotlight; license plates & movie picks & more.
Documentaries play a big role in the festival, with particular focus on the environment and Native Americans.
Smith’s photos remind us that you don’t have to scratch the surface of time TOO deeply to find Old Portland.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An expansive exhibit looks at the lives and issues along the great river.
Photogs Zeb Andrews, Susan de Witt, Julie Moore, Motoya Nakamura, Deb Stoner on work during pandemic.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The pandemic is the puzzle. Adaptability is the key. Unlocking the cultural world’s future.
At the Museum of the Oregon Territory, a “gutsy art of overcoming” creates an art show and an auction.
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.
From Eastern Oregon to a paint-out on the coast to queer opera and TBA in Portland to the New York streets, art is where you look.
It’s a busy month of music in Oregon, from classical to hip-hop to experimental and more.
In Maryhill’s Year of the Print, an exhibit of contemporary printmaking cuts from urban realism to the rhythms of the natural world.
The funk and sweat and desperate seediness of New Orleans are so thick in the air above James Canfield’s new dance Sketches of Connotation that you can almost smell them rising from the stage of Lincoln Performance Hall. It’s an intoxicating aroma.
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