Native American print exhibit opens February 20 at Sarah Spurgeon Gallery

The Sarah Spurgeon Gallery at Central Washington University will host the exhibition Past, Now, Future: Native American Prints from the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Collection.

Foremost Native American artists Natalie Ball, Rick Bartow, Edgar Heap of Birds (Hock E Aye Vi), James Lavadour, James Luna, Lillian Pitt, Wendy Red Star, and Kay WalkingStick, among others, are represented in the exhibit.

The opening events are scheduled for Thursday, February 20, with a talk by Washington State University Associate Professor Michael Holloman (Colville Confederated Tribes) from 4-5 p.m. in the SURC Theatre, room 210. Holloman’s talk is titled Artistic Agency: The Vision and Legacy of Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. The talk will be followed by a reception in the Sarah Spurgeon Gallery (Randall Hall, room 141) from 5-7 p.m.

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA) is a nationally renowned art studio located on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Pendleton, Oregon, with a focus on contemporary fine art printmaking. Their collection includes 200 prints by more than 60 nationally and internationally known artists, who created the prints as part of an artist residency with master printmakers.

The 42 prints in the CWU exhibition were selected by Gallery Manager Heather Horn Johnson and Assistant Professor of Art History Erika Pazian according to the following themes: abstraction, the human figure, landscape and nature, power and politics, and text and meaning.

Past, Now, Future will remain on view through March 22. Sarah Spurgeon Gallery is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 1-5 p.m.

The exhibit is a collaboration with Gallery One Visual Arts Center that will have prints from the CSIA collection on view from February 20 through March 29. Gallery One’s opening will take place during the First Friday Art Walk reception on Friday, March 7, from 5-7 p.m.

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Image caption:

Wendy Red Star, Her Dreams are True (Julia Bad Boy), Six-color lithograph, 2020, 20 ¼ in. x 20 in.