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.
Photographer and writer Friderike Heuer follows the process of Exquisite Gorge II, a collaborative art project organized by the Maryhill Museum of Art. Fiber artists, each representing sections of a 220-mile stretch of the Columbia River between its confluences with the Willamette and Snake rivers, weave the strands of wildlife, water, land, and community together.
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.
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.
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