Exquisite Gorge II

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.

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: Power!

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: Liminal Spaces

July 11, 2022Friderike Heuer

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

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: A Feat of Translation

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.

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

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: Making the world a better place

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: Of Harm and Healing

April 12, 2022Friderike Heuer

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

Exquisite Gorge II: Felt Worlds

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: Pattern Masters and Master Patterns

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.

Exquisite Gorge II: Ariadne’s Thread

February 28, 2022Friderike Heuer

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

Exquisite Gorge II: It begins with sheep

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.