[Libs-Or] Fwd: [wcc] Exhibit Opening: This IS Kalapuyan Land @ WCM

Tue Aug 6 06:55:41 PDT 2019

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From: Alfredo Moreno <alfredo.moreno1 at pcc.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 3:37 PM
Subject: [wcc] Exhibit Opening: This IS Kalapuyan Land @ WCM
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Good afternoon Rock Creek Campus,

Please see the announcement below about the Washington County Museum's
exciting new exhibit opening on Thursday, Aug. 15.

As a reminder, PCC staff and students are admitted free of charge to the
museum, which is located at the southeast corner of Rock Creek Campus.

Starting Aug. 15, the Washington County Museum will be open Wednesday
through Friday from Noon to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For admission, memberships, events and more:

visit www.washingtoncountymuseum.org

email info at washingtoncountymuseum.org

call 503.645.5353

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 1st, 2019

Contact: Molly Alloy, Co-Director

503.645.5353  molly at washingtoncountymuseum.org

Announces:

This IS Kalapuyan Land, opening Thursday August 15th

Member Preview: 5pm to 6pm. Remarks from the Guest Curator and introduction
to the artists.

Public Reception: 6pm to 8pm. Performance and refreshments.

What happens when a museum known for pioneer history turns over curatorial
authority to a young Indigenous Guest Curator? For Washington County
Museum, the result is a bold self-critical exhibit about the Tualatin
Valley’s first people.

For the past 60 years, Washington County Museum has - like many museums -
acquired, collected, and preserved Native artifacts. These cultural
resources are mostly donated to museums by settler-pioneer descendants who
may not know local tribal communities’ true wishes for their peoples’
artifacts. At Washington County Museum and all over the world these Native
objects are the basis for exhibits and curriculum that is shared with the
public. They are an incredible resource, but too often result in Native
culture being discussed mostly in the past-tense. “The vibrant presence of
today’s Native people has not been given enough space at this museum.
That’s unacceptable for a place that teaches others about this area’s
history and culture,” said Co-Directors Molly Alloy and Nathanael Andreini.
“Native perspectives are essential, informed, complex, and numerous. With
over 53,000 Native folks living in Oregon today, there’s a threat of
cultural erasure if museums do not make space for Native people to share
their own stories and cultures.”

Alloy and Andreini turned to a Guest Curator who could bring a unique
Indigenous perspective. Steph Littlebird Fogel was born and raised in
Banks, Oregon, is Kalapuyan, two-spirit, and an artist - as an individual
she demonstrates how multifaceted contemporary native identities often are.
Her new exhibit, This IS Kalapuyan Land, is an exhibition that honors the
unique history of the Atfalati-Kalapuya tribes in Washington County, Oregon
and celebrates contemporary Indigenous culture.

The new exhibit re-tools the museum’s cornerstone historical display,
called This Kalapuya Land, which was created over a decade ago in
partnership with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. That partnership
was a great step for the museum at the time; the new version makes the
native perspective even more visible. As viewers move through the space
they will encounter hand-written edits and annotations made by Littlebird
Fogel to highlight errors, update language, and note important passages in
the original content. Each edit points towards larger problems in our
collective recollection of America’s and Oregon’s history.

This IS Kalapuyan Land (note how Littlebird Fogel updated the title) allows
visitors to think about the differences between Native and non-Native
versions of history. The exhibit questions what information is presented as
“fact” and how the museum context shapes what the audience learns.
“Ultimately, I want to challenge the way we recall our shared histories,”
states Littlebird Fogel, “and examine how biased narratives can be
perpetuated through archeology and academic institutions like museums and
universities.”

The highlights and updates that Littlebird Fogel made to the historical
display are only the beginning of her contribution to the new exhibit --
she also brought in contemporary artworks from 15 Indigenous artists. She
explains that “by incorporating contemporary Native work, I am hoping to
illuminate the lives of Natives living today, and the effects of diaspora
on Native proximity to their homelands.” Through Indigenous art, the
exhibit explores what it means to be Native American in contemporary
society, and tells the stories of Indigenous descendants who are
contributing to cultural survivance today.

Littlebird Fogel concludes: “This IS Kalapuyan Land is my effort, as a
descendant of the Kalapuyan people, to offer a more holistic representation
of the past, present, and future of Oregon’s Indigenous community.”

Featured Artists:

Carol Haskins (Grand Ronde)

Don Bailey (Hupa)

Nestucca (Grand Ronde)

Nicole Haskins (Grand Ronde)

Jason Cawood (Klamath)

Derrick Lawvor (Klamath)

Angelica Trimble-Yanu (Oglala Lakota Sioux)

Phillip Thomas (Chickasaw)

DeAnna Bear (Eastern Band Lenape)

Jana Schmieding (Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux)

Whitney A. Lewis (Chehalis)

Tincer Mitchell (Navajo)

Lindsea Wery (Chippewa)

Joni Millard (Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Crow)

Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe)

Stephanie Littlebird Fogel (Grand Ronde, Kalapuya) is a visual artist,
professional writer, and curator from Washington County, Oregon. She is a
2019 Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) project grant awardee, a
two-time Art + Sci Initiative recipient, and Fogel has worked in
collaboration with the Oregon Bee Project, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) and the United States Postal Service. Fogel served as a juror for the
Idea Initiative grant program, and received the Nancy Tonkin Memorial
Scholarship for Emerging Artists.

About the Washington County Museum

For more than 60 years, the Washington County Museum, a private nonprofit
organization, has provided community members and visitors an opportunity to
experience and understand the richness of local history, heritage and
culture.

The Washington County Museum’s fall 2019 hours begin August 15th: Wednesday
through Friday from Noon to 4pm and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm.

For admission, memberships, events and more:

visit www.washingtoncountymuseum.org

email info at washingtoncountymuseum.org

call 503.645.5353

-- 
*Molly Alloy*
Co-Director
Washington County Museum
(503) 645-5353 x103

(Pronouns: they/them)

New exhibit opens August 15th! *This IS Kalapuyan Land* teaches about the
first peoples of the Tualatin Valley with critique, updates, and
contemporary Native art put together by Guest Curator Steph Littlebird
Fogel.

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