Category: Beading

Bloodlines: Nez Perce Art

The title of this exciting exhibit refers to the continuity of Native culture. The art work ranges from purely traditional weaving and beading to contemporary paintings and a new bronze from Doug Hyde. Dug did the wonderful bronze and granite sculpture, “Return,” which stands in the Josephy Center courtyard. The new piece depicts a Nez Perce woman warrior.

Phil Cash Cash, who recently curated the Indigenous Sasquatch show at the High Desert Museum in Bend has three paintings. And ten additional artists from the Nez Perce Reservation in Lapwai, Idaho and the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon are booked for the show. The art work is for sale, with the possibility of a few items that can be taken away on Saturday. Most items will remain part of the show until it ends on June 6.

Thanks to the Nez Perce Tribe for support, to curator Jordan Shawl of Nez Perce Tourism, to Jacy Sohappy of Crow’s Shadow and Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland, and to Stacia Morfin of Nez Perce Tourism for bringing the salmon, providing transportation for artists, and much more.

The show is presented by the Josephy Library of Western History and Culture.

Nez Perce Artists: Traditional and Contemporary

January 5 – February 23
Exhibit Opening: Sunday, January 5 at 2 PM

Stacia Morfin, a young artist and entrepreneur, is the curator of this exhibit, which features traditional as well as contemporary art.  War clubs, beading work, baskets, hats, paintings — all the work of tribal artists.  Both seasoned and emerging artists will be featured throughout the exhibit.  The Josephy Center welcomes this opportunity to work with Indian artists–and to help further their careers in art and in the communication of Nez Perce culture to the broader world.

Native American Art Show

Featuring Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts prints, Indian art, & regalia. 

June 4 – 28

The Josephy Center’s third annual Native American Art Exhibit opens on June 4 at 5 p.m. The exhibit is a mixture of old and new Indian Art; twelve prints from Crow’s Shadow Institute of Art, including work from Lillian Pitt, Jim Demonie, Wendy Red Star, Rick Bartow and more; and historical regalia from private collections (Celeste Whitewolf and more)….The opening reception includes refreshments, music and libations, and will be in conjunction with the annual Joseph Art Walk, which goes from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.. The exhibit runs through June 28.

During the month of June we will have complimentary programs to the exhibit. First, Brown Bag Lunches will be held on three Tuesdays. First, June 7 we will be welcoming Nez Perce Fisheries; on June 14, Wil Phinney, editor of the Confederated Umatilla Journal. Finally, on June 21, at noon, we will show two 20-minute Nez Perce films “Of One Heart” and “Nez Perce: Portrait of a People.”

This year we welcome two Native artists in residence: Celeste Whitewolf and Allen Pinkham, Jr.  Celeste will teach a basketry workshop from June 21-June 24, and Allen will be here at different times during the summer and fall to work on a traditional dug-out canoe. More news on this as the project grows.

 

www.crowsshadow.org 

Nuunimnix Art Show

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Nez Perce National Historical Park.  As part of the year’s celebration events, the park reached out to Nez Perce artists to form the Nuunimníx Art Show.  In nimiipuutimt, the Nez Perce language, nuunimníx means “our very own.” With this art show, Nez Perce National Historical Park sought to celebrate Nez Perces and Nez Perce descendants that make traditional items for family, friends, and loved ones – items that exemplify the word nuunimníx.  The Nuunimníx Art Show honors the artists, their teachers and elders, and the culture and community that lies at the foundation of the artists’ work. Runs May 30 – June 27.

This show also marks the debut of our permanent Alvin Josephy life exhibit upstairs in the loft. Come check it out!