[OR_Archaeology] Hallie Ford Museum of Art hosting NA art Jan 30- March 28

[Susan White]

Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem will be hosting an interesting exhibit January 30 to March 28, 2010. I thought it might be nice to share the information with those of you who might be in Salem during this time. 

Below is the exhibit's description and I've included some web links if you would like more information. Hope you enjoy, Susan

Joe Federsen is a Native American (Colville) artist (mixed media) who explores the dynamic interrelationships between urban place markers and indigenous landscapes through prints, woven baskets and blown glass vessels

VITAL SIGNS

Vital signs, the pulses and patterns of the body, are indicators of essential life functions. The powerful work of Joe Feddersen reveals, like vital signs themselves, the state of the human condition from the vantage point of a contemporary artist who has inherited an ancient aesthetic tradition.

Arising from Plateau Indian iconographic interpretations of the human-environment relationship, Feddersen's prints, weavings, and glass sculptures explore the interrelationships between contemporary urban place markers and indigenous design. Following in the footsteps of his Plateau Indian ancestors who "spoke to the land in the patterns of the baskets," Feddersen interprets the urbanscapes and the landscapes surrounding him and transforms those rhythms into art forms that are both coolly modern and warmly expressionistic.

Joe Feddersen was born in 1953, in Omak, Washington, just off the Colville Indian Reservation. His mother was Okanogan and Lakes from Penticton, Canada; his father was the son of German immigrants. He has been a member of the art faculty at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, since 1989.

Vital Signs exhibit is organized by Rebecca J. Dobkins, a curator at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and associate professor of anthropology at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.

http://www.willamette.edu/museum_of_art/index.htm 

http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/DOBJOE.html