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Exquisite Gorge II: It’s a Wrap!

Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.

News & Notes: Wild & woolly festival in the Gorge, gender imbalance at the barre, geezer gathering, crisis in the family

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: Power!

For Maryhill Museum's Columbia Gorge project, fiber artist Bonnie Meltzer explores electricity and its effect on the river and the land.

Exquisite Gorge II: Of baskets and botany

Columbia Gorge fiber artist Chloë Hight leads a biological exploration of the river system and the plants that thrive there, giving art and life.

Exquisite Gorge II: Liminal Spaces

In her section of Maryhill Museum's collaborative Columbia River art project, Carolyn Hazel Drake explores a world of transitions.

Exquisite Gorge II: A shoutout to those behind the scenes

In praise of the hands and minds behind a massive museum yarn-bombing, and the parade of poppies that bring light and remembrance.

Exquisite Gorge II: A Feat of Translation

Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.

Exquisite Gorge II: Doubling up – the creative power of collaboration

Married artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Owen Premore bring a collaboration of diverse approaches to Maryhill Museum's Columbia River art project.

Exquisite Gorge II: Making the world a better place

Fiber artist Lynn Deal stitches history, culture, and social issues into her section of Maryhill Museum's Columbia River craft art project.

Exquisite Gorge II: Of Harm and Healing

Artist Ophir El-Boher and Desert Fiber Art interweave ideas of consumption, extraction, fashion, and refashioning.

Exquisite Gorge II: Felt Worlds

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: Pattern Masters and Master Patterns

From Oaxaca to Oregon, Laura and Francisco Bautista continue a tradition of weaving that has endured for more than 2,000 years.

Exquisite Gorge II: Ariadne’s Thread

Part 2: Friderike Heuer visits Kristy Kún, whose fantastic felt forms suggest something mythological.

Exquisite Gorge II: It begins with sheep

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.

Exquisite Gorge 11: It’s a print!

It all came together under the sun: Maryhill Museum's audacious, 66-foot long print went to press via steam roller.

Exquisite Gorge 10: The Truth-Teller

As Columbia Gorge print day approaches, artist and veteran Drew Cameron talks about art and war.

Exquisite Gorge 8 & 9: The Map Makers

As the print date for Maryhill Museum's Columbia River project approaches, its artists think about the mix of maps and territory.

Exquisite Gorge 7: The Explorer

Printmaker Molly Gaston Johnson follows Lewis & Clark's westward path to make her mark on theColumbia River project.

Exquisite Gorge 6: The Guardian

Grand Ronde tribes' Greg Archuleta links past and future in Maryhill's Columbia Gorge print project.

Exquisite Gorge 5: The Alchemist

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER “Alchemy – noun : a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way.” (Merriam-Webster)  * THE ENGLISH WORD ALCHEMY has its historical…

Exquisite Gorge 4: The Bee Maven

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER “The bees build in the crevicesOf loosening masonry, and thereThe mother birds bring grubs and flies.My wall is loosening; honey-bees,Come build in the empty…

Exquisite Gorge 3: The Listener

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…

Exquisite Gorge 2: The Witness

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER HOW DO YOU TELL A STORY that is not necessarily your own? How do you draw a landscape that did not always belong to…

Exquisite Gorge 1: Getting started

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…

Greg Archuleta and Lifeways: Cultivating resilience through education

When Greg Archuleta realized the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde didn't have any cultural education classes, he created them himself.

Going, going, gone: 2019 in review

A look back at the ups and downs and curious side trips of the year in Oregon culture.

The Week: It’s Stan Foote Day

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.

June DanceWatch: The joint is jumpin’

As summer approaches, Oregon's dance scene brings a broad array of statements and styles to the party.

Roll, Columbia, roll: At Maryhill Museum, the river is a unifier and an artistic bridge

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.

2023 in Review: The look of visual arts

From the Rothko Pavilion to Converge 45 to the Hallie Ford's 25th anniversary and much more, a look at some of the highlights of Oregon's year in the worlds of museums and visual art.