Closed due to fire and water damage since June, the museum’s reopening this month includes a new exhibit celebrating the high desert rangelands of Wasco County and the ranchers and artists dedicated to sustainable stewardship of both the land and animals.
April 20, 2025Friderike Heuer
In the studio with the textile artist as she creates "River Stories," an abstract "map" in yarn of the Columbia River, set to open in June at the Columbia Gorge Museum.
June 15, 2024Friderike Heuer
In the exhibition "Ms. Molly's Voice" at the Columbia Gorge Museum, a collection of family quilts reveals beauty, pain, remembrance, and secret signs along the Underground Railroad.
April 17, 2024Bob Hicks
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.
December 7, 2023Hannah Krafcik
Community organizer Nik Portela embraced The Dalles as their home, tipping the rural town's local culture toward more LGBTQIA2S+ acceptance.
June 26, 2023Bob Hicks
The museum names Amy Behrens, executive director of a Southern California cultural center and botanical gardens, to lead it into the future.
June 19, 2023Friderike Heuer
New leadership and a show of diverse work by women artists in the Gorge suggest a transformation of ideas at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center.
May 20, 2023Bob Hicks
For decades, Gary Harvey built fences and secretly made art in Wasco County. A first-ever showing of his work is also an art center's fresh start.
March 21, 2023Bob Hicks
The Dalles Art Center is racing to raise enough money to keep its doors open. (So far, so good.) And in nearby Hood River, another arts center is out to reinvent itself.
March 11, 2023Bob Hicks
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.
August 8, 2022Friderike Heuer
Maryhill Museum of Art finishes its sweeping Columbia Gorge fiber-arts project with a grand party on the museum grounds.
July 25, 2022Friderike Heuer
For Maryhill Museum's Columbia Gorge project, fiber artist Bonnie Meltzer explores electricity and its effect on the river and the land.
July 18, 2022Friderike Heuer
Columbia Gorge fiber artist Chloë Hight leads a biological exploration of the river system and the plants that thrive there, giving art and life.
July 11, 2022Friderike Heuer
In her section of Maryhill Museum's collaborative Columbia River art project, Carolyn Hazel Drake explores a world of transitions.
June 29, 2022Friderike Heuer
In praise of the hands and minds behind a massive museum yarn-bombing, and the parade of poppies that bring light and remembrance.
June 20, 2022Friderike Heuer
Fabric artist Amanda Triplett and her team learn the science of the Columbia River Basin and transform it into the language of art.
June 13, 2022Friderike Heuer
Married artists Tammy Jo Wilson and Owen Premore bring a collaboration of diverse approaches to Maryhill Museum's Columbia River art project.
May 14, 2022Friderike Heuer
Fiber artist Lynn Deal stitches history, culture, and social issues into her section of Maryhill Museum's Columbia River craft art project.
April 12, 2022Friderike Heuer
Artist Ophir El-Boher and Desert Fiber Art interweave ideas of consumption, extraction, fashion, and refashioning.
April 4, 2022Friderike Heuer
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.
March 28, 2022Friderike Heuer
In "Celilo, Never Silenced," the inaugural gallery show at Beaverton's new arts center, contemporary artists carry forward the memory of the great lost waterway.
March 23, 2022Friderike Heuer
From Oaxaca to Oregon, Laura and Francisco Bautista continue a tradition of weaving that has endured for more than 2,000 years.
March 12, 2022Joe Cantrell
On the 65th anniversary of the flooding of Celilo Falls by The Dalles Dam, the River People gather to remember, revisit, and look ahead.
February 28, 2022Friderike Heuer
Part 2: Friderike Heuer visits Kristy Kún, whose fantastic felt forms suggest something mythological.
February 19, 2022Friderike Heuer
The industrialization of the Columbia River continues to destroy local salmon ecosystems and the livelihoods of Indigenous fishers who depend on them.
February 12, 2022Friderike Heuer
A morning spent amid the Columbia Hills inspires musings on the rock paintings and carvings that dot the landscape.
November 10, 2021Friderike Heuer
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.
