CROW’S SHADOW INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AT 25
May 19 – August 19, 2018; Lightcatcher
This exhibition, organized by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in partnership with the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, chronicles the history of Crow’s Shadow over the past twenty-five years as it developed into an important native printmaking atelier in Pendleton, Oregon. Founded by Oregon painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla), who envisioned a traditional arts studio focused on printmaking, Crow’s Shadow is the only professional printmaking studio located on a reservation community in the United States.
The exhibition presents more than 70 prints drawn from the Crow’s Shadow Print Archive and focuses on themes of Abstraction, Landscape, Media and Process, Portraiture, and Word and Image. In addition to the prints on display, the exhibition is accompanied by text panels, chat panels, and a video that showcases Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Art. Both Native and non-Native artists who have worked at Crow’s Shadow are featured, including Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Pat Boas (US), Joe Feddersen (Colville Confederated Tribes), Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne), Brenda Mallory (Cherokee), Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke), and Marie Watt (Seneca), among others.
Support for this exhibition has been provided by Mary Summerfield & Mike O’Neal, the Whatcom Museum Foundation, the Whatcom Museum Advocates, and the City of Bellingham.
PARTY > Members See it First! Member reception, Friday, May 18, 5 – 7pm at the Lightcatcher.
DOCENT TOURS > Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, 1:30pm, beginning May 26th. Touring concurrently with The Intimate Diebenkorn: Works on Paper 1949-1992 at the Lightcatcher.
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- Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke, b. 1981); iilaalée = car (goes by itself) + ii = by means of which + dáanniili = we parade 2015, ed. 20; Nine-color lithograph on Somerset Satin white paper with chine-collé archival pigment ink photographs on Moab Entrada paper, 24 x 38 in. Courtesy Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts.
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- Rick Bartow (Wiyot, 1946–2016); Crow Shadow, 2013, series of 20; Monoprint on Rives BFK white paper; 30.125 x 22.5 in. Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Archive, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University.
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- Marie Watt (Seneca, b. 1967); Blankets, 2003, ed. 16; Five-color lithograph on Rives BFK grey paper, 19.75 x 25.75 in. Courtesy of Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts.
