Events

 

Come join us for food, fellowship, and fun as we gather in community and hold each other up! 

 

Drop-in advising, crafting supplies, and snacks! For more information contact Many Nations Longhouse longhouse@uoregon.edu 

 

For more information contact Jorney Baldwin-Chee jorneyb@uoregon.edu 

 

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NASU’s annual Indigenous People’s Day celebrations.

 

Join Land of Origin artist James Lavadour (Walla Walla) and art historian Kate Morris, UO Executive Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, for a discussion of painting, printmaking, Lavadour's approach to understanding the land, and his place in contemporary American art.

 

On the occasion of the career retrospective James Lavadour: Land of Origin, join exhibition curator Danielle Knapp, JSMA McCosh Curator; Feather Miller (Warm Springs), JSMA Studio Assistant; and Jessica Wilks, Tacoma Art Museum Director of Curatorial, for a discussion of this esteemed painter and printmaker’s work and the importance of artist retrospectives. Spanning the topics of James Lavadour (Walla Walla)’s connection to the eastern Oregon landscape, his contributions as an artist and community leader for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and the effects of his works on viewers, this roundtable conversation seeks to bring new appreciation to one of Oregon’s most original contemporary artists and to highlight the ways in which retrospectives contribute to public understanding. The event will begin with a short self-reflection writing prompt. This program made possible with support from Art Bridges.

 

Can Indigenous artists, curators, and historians resist the colonial narrative of art museums when the museum itself is a colonizer institution? Reflecting on his own experience visiting the museum on the Gila River Indian Community, David Martínez (Akimel O'odham/Hia-Ced O'odham/Mexican), Professor of American Indian Studies and Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, argues that the path to resistance lay in the land itself."

Co-sponsored by The Oregon Humanities Center, Department of History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.

Museum of Natural and Cultural History.   

 

How are Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—forms of resistance to settler colonialism? Join UO professor Ashley Cordes (enrolled citizen of the Kō-Kwel/Coquille Nation) for a reading from her new book, Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age, in which she examines this question and more. Books available for purchase.

 

illioo Native Theatre in partnership with Very Little Theatre presents BlueJay’s Canoe, by Theresa May and UO Elder in Residence Marta Lu Clifford (Chinook, Cree, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde).

 

Transgressors co-curator Anthony Hudson and artist Steph Littlebird discuss decolonizing museum exhibits, honoring Indigiqueer ancestors through art, and what it means—and how—to design a show to tour tribal homelands.

 

James Lavadour: Land of Origin presents the most comprehensive survey to date of works by painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla). Spanning five decades of work, this national retrospective celebrates Lavadour’s deep connection to the eastern Oregon landscape, particularly the Umatilla Indian Reservation and surrounding Blue Mountains region where the artist has spent most of his life, and recognizes his esteemed place in contemporary American painting.