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Marie Watt is included in Words Matter & Untold History: Native American Works at Piedmont Arts.

"Featuring works on paper by contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition underscores the richness and diversity of the contemporary Indigenous experience told through the medium of printmaking.

The works are linked by the belief that words have immeasurable power, particularly when reckoning with how written language has been weaponized against Indigenous people throughout the history of the Americas.

The exhibit introduces several contemporary Native American artists who have worked in the medium of printmaking, including Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Demian Diné Yazhi (Diné/Navajo), Marie Watt (Seneca), Larry McNeil (Tlingit), and others. All artists represented in the exhibition have chosen to incorporate text into their images, using the language of the colonizers of their land to tell their own stories. In this way, words play a powerful role in reclaiming a lost history and adding to the incomplete American narrative. In doing so, they also offer messages of hope, humor and resilience."

For more information: https://www.piedmontarts.org/calendar/event.cfm?eID=1428

Words Matter & Untold History: Native American Works
February 1, 2025 - March 15, 2025

Piedmont Arts
215 Starling Avenue
Martinsville, Virginia 24112

Join us on March 29, 2025 for a closing talk with artist Susan Seubert and Dr. M Jackson, a geographer, glaciologist, and science communicator exploring the intersections of photography, glaciology, and climate change.

Dr. M Jackson is a geographer, glaciologist, and science communicator exploring the intersections of societal transformation, glaciology, and climate change. Jackson is a National Geographic Society Explorer, TED Fellow, and three-time U.S. Fulbright Scholar. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, a Master of Science degree from the University of Montana, and serves as a U.S. Fulbright Ambassador and an Expert for National Geographic Expeditions. Jackson is an active public speaker and author of the award-winning books Ice to Water (2024), The Ice Sings Back (2023), The Secret Lives of Glaciers (2019) and While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change (2015).

Fragile Beauty: A Conversation with Susan Seubert and Dr. M Jackson
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Please RSVP to info@pdxcontemporaryart.com

Susan Seubert's exhibition Fragile Beauty was featured in Williamette Week.

Read the whole article here: https://www.wweek.com/arts/visual-arts/2025/03/05/susan-seubert-photogr…

Congratulations to Heather Watkins!
Heather and Brenda Mallory are receiving the 2025 Bonnie Bronson Award!

The public reception will be Wednesday, May 28th at 5pm - remarks at 5:30 in Vollum Lounge, Reed College campus.

We are very excited for and proud of Heather.

https://oregoncf.org/community-impact/impact-areas/arts-and-culture/bon…

Heather Watkins;'s is one of nine artist featured in the exhibition HER FORMATION, on view February 21st—April 11th, 2025.

"The current exhibition at Artspace, HER FORMATION, exhibits the work of nine women artists whose enigmatic artworks offer visions of survival and even imaginative possibility in times of upheaval.

The artists include Marjan Anvari, Kirsten Bauer, Francesca Capone, Sally Jablonsky, Emily Katz, Frankie Krupa-Vahdani, Zhang Mao, Heather Watkins and Amanda Wojick.

Each artist makes sense of the complexity of the world through artistic acts of alteration, abstraction, and material transformation. Their bold, often brightly saturated compositions respond to limitations through a wide variety of approaches, whether limitations of their embodied experience, cultural traditions, or autocratic systems of power. The artists’ works are uncompromising in their creative power, defiant, and even playful."

For more information: https://artscouncillo.org/her-formation

We are please to announce the release of Storm Tharp's first monograph: VERS.

VERS is a lavish, 336-page, full color, case-bound book designed by Heather Watkins. The monograph includes a collection of never-before published writings by the artist, as well as an interview between Tharp and filmmaker Todd Haynes, an essay by Tokyo art consultant Chihiro Watanabe, and a preface and essay by Cooley Gallery director and curator Stephanie Snyder. VERS is published by the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, 2025, and is supported by The Ford Family Foundation, Roseburg, OR.

James Lavadour and Marie Watt are both included in Indigenous Identities: Here, Now, & Always curated by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) opening February 1 at the Zimmerli Art Museum.

"This exhibition, curated by the renowned artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), provides a provocative survey of contemporary Native American art across media. A prolific curator, Quick-to-See Smith has curated over thirty shows, including The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C (2023). Indigenous Identities features ninety living artists that represent over fifty distinct Indigenous nations and communities from across North America and includes painting, works on paper, photography, ceramics, beadwork, weaving, sculpture, installation, and video."

For more information: https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibition/indigenous-identities-here-…

Iván Carmona's exhibition Trozos was written about in Cliff Notes by Variable West.

You can read the full review here:
Oregon art picks from Kaya Noteboom

PADA Pop-Up Event!
A fun, casual event, open to all.

Join us this Sunday, November 17th, from 11am-5pm for the PADA Pop-Up.

The Portland Art Dealers Association pop-up will take place at Building Five at Northwest Marine Artworks and will feature work by PADA's member galleries Blackfish Gallery, Gallery 114, J. Pepin Art Gallery, Laura Vincent Design & Gallery, One Grand Gallery, PDX Contemporary Art, and Waterstone Gallery as well as a few ORVAA partners The BLACK Gallery, Blue Sky, and Ori Gallery. At 3:00 pm Brian Ferriso, director of the Portland Art Museum, will give a brief talk on PADA’s contributions to Portland’s cultural community.

PDX will have new, never been seen works by some of our artists including: small vases from Iván Carmona, watercolor and gouache paintings by Justin L’Amie, small oil on panel paintings by James Lavadour, new textile work by Kristen Miller, a herd of ceramic elephants by Jeffry Mitchell, and miniature mixed media work by Nell Warren. Also on view will be work from Marjorie Dial, Ellen George, Barbara Stafford, and Heather Watkins, among others. The event will be a wonderful opportunity to see and buy brand new, small-scale works by our represented artists.

We look forward to seeing you!

PADA Pop-Up @padaoregon
Sunday, November 17th | 11am-5pm
Building Five at Northwest Marine Artworks
2516 NW 29th Ave
Portland, OR
97210