Exquisite Gorge 11: It’s a print!
Friderike Heuer
August 28, 2019
It all came together under the sun: Maryhill Museum’s audacious, 66-foot long print went to press via steam roller.
Photographer and writer Friderike Heuer covered the first incarnation of Exquisite Gorge, the 2019 collaborative art project organized by the Maryhill Museum of Art. Artists working with communities in sections of a 220-mile stretch of the Columbia River between its confluences with the Willamette and Snake rivers created 6×4-foot woodcuts depicting life and the environment in their section of the river system. It all culminated with a grand event on the museum grounds pressing a 66-foot-long print with a steamroller.
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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