[OR_Archaeology] Rock Art Exhibit opens Feb 13 in Bend

[Susan White]

" Rock Art Perspectives: Pictographs and Petroglyphs" opens Feb. 13 at the High Desert Museum, Bend. 

The exhibition brings together archaeologists, photographers and Native American artists who explore the beauty and significance of early Native American art carvings and paintings in the Columbia plateau, Great Basin and across America. Rock art includes pictographs, which are drawings on stone using crushed berries, red ochre and other natural materials. Petroglyphs are images carved in stone. Artists include Lillian Pitt, Melissa Melero, Harry Fonseca and photographers David Muench, Michael Frye and Alain Briot. 

For more information, visit www.highdesertmuseum.org or phone 541-382-4754.

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Susan Lynn White, RPA
Assistant State Archaeologist
Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
725 Summer Street NE, Suite C
Salem, Oregon 97301
503-986-0675
503-986-0793 FAX
Susan.White at state.or.us
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