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Resilience Robe, 2014, Clarissa Rizal NAAC ALERT MAY 19, 2017 NATIVE AMERICAN ART COUNCIL A council of the Portland Art Museum Website Exhibitions Events Visit Support About the Museum NAAC - ANNUAL MEETING NAAC Annual Meeting Tuesday, June 13, 6:00 PM Miller Gallery, Mark Building Portland Art Museum Plan to attend the Native American Art Council Annual Meeting on June 13 Reception at 6 pm with appetizers and wine Election of Officers for 2017-18 Annual Report from NAAC President Patty Prado Special Guest Speaker: Mike Murawski, Director of Nez Perce artist, Education and Public Programs, Portland Art Contour Beaded Flat Bag ca1900. Glass beads on cloth and hide. The Museum Elizabeth Butler Collection. There is no charge for this meeting, but please RSVP by June 6 to Sue Henry at [email protected] so that we have a sense of how many are attending. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! NAAC PRESIDENT NAAC BOARD OF PATTY PRADO DIRECTORS President: Patty Prado Greetings Council Members ~ Welcome to our May ALERT! Vice President Kathleen Marquart As you can see from the announcement, our ANNUAL MEETING is on June 13. We hope to Treasurer have a good turnout to elect officers and hear Jan Berger from the museum's education director, Mike Murawski. The meeting is an excellent way to get Secretary oriented to the Council if you are a new or newish Judy Lyons member. Good news! You may know that the job search is NAAC COMMITTEE underway for the Curator of Native American Art. CHAIRS The job posting is on the museum's web site. We will keep our hopes high for a curator in the near Archives future. Mary Ellen Andre Being connected to and partnering with the Native American ALERT/FOCUS community is an important part of the Council's mission. To Mary McWilliams help keep our members informed we publish in our ALERT a listing of web links to Native American related organizations Members-at-Large and events. We are generally not able to announce or publicize Laura Fallon-Burns specific upcoming activities. Membership An alternative is to subscribe to an organization's electronic Jane Knechtel newsletter. It's easy to sign up on their websites and you receive pertinent information directly. If you are on Facebook, Past President like and follow the group! Mary Sayler Here is a short list of area nonprofit organizations that have Programs newsletters, Facebook pages, and for the advanced - even Kathleen Marquart Twitter and Instagram: * Confluence Project Reading Circle * Crow's Shadow Stephnie Feeney * Native Arts and Cultures Foundation * Native Youth and Family Center (NAYA) Travel * Wisdom of the Elders Anne Avery Links to the above are at the end of this ALERT! NAAC EX OFFICIO Curator NOMINATIONS FOR TBA 2017-2018 NAAC OFFICERS Musuem Liaison Jan Quivey The slate to be proposed to the Council membership at the Annual Meeting will be: * Patty Prado, President * Kathleen Marquart, Vice President * Judy Lyons, Secretary, * Jan Berger, Treasurer. Mary Sayler, Chair and Sue Henry, Anne Avery and Karen Schmirler, Nominating Committee Elizabeth Woody's design for NAAC --SAVE THE DATE-- PICTURES FOR THIS NAAC FUNDRAISER ALERT VISIT TO PRIVATE NATIVE AMERICAN ART COLLECTION Many thanks for the pictures: * Bill Allen A visit to the home and art * Laura Fallon-Burns collection of Bill Avery, good * Mary McWilliams friend of Rick Bartow, has * Mary Sayler been arranged as an * and others opportunity for NAAC to raise funds. Save the date: September 10, 2-4 pm, with RECENT NAAC an informal presentation at ACTIVITIES IN 3 pm. PICTURES Big Eagle, Rick Bartow, dry point etching, 9x3 Avery's art collection NAAC January 19th includes many works by Bartow that have never been seen. Program with the His home became Bartow's Portland stopover for the last 15 Native Arts and years and Bill has many stories about Rick both as artist and Cultures Foundation friend. Avery's collection also includes work by Fritz Scholder, (NACF) T.C. Cannon, Kaila Farrel-Smith, Sara Siestreem, Lillian Pitt, Joe Fedderson, and James Lavadour, as well as non-native northwest and nationally recognized artists. Some of the Bartow artworks that will be on Avery's walls in September are currently on view at Western Oregon University (where Bartow graduated in 1969) in the Hamersly Library through June 16. NAAC members Kathleen Marquart, and Patty Prado Space at the Avery home is limited to fifty individuals. Price will on either side of Francene be $50 per person. Invitations will go out in early July. J. Blythe, NACF speaker Funds raised at this event will be used to support the Portland and Director of Programs Art Museum Native American collection and program. Contact Anne Avery, 503-544-4174 or send an email NAAC March 10th to [email protected] for additional information. Reception for CCNA Exhibit "Connecting Lines" NEW NAAC MEMBERS NAAC welcomes new members: * Claire Brown and David Delmar Jon George (Confederate * Alison and Andrew Gold Tribes of Grand Ronde), one of three drummers at this event, with NAAC * Pamela and Stuart McAlpine member Kathleen Marquart Jane Knechtel, Membership Chair CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (CCNA) FOURTH ROTATING EXHIBIT "CONNECTING LINES" RECEPTION Reception guests listening to remarks NAAC members Barbara Kim, Barbara Schramm, Liz Lambert, and Sue Henry Artists Luzene Hill and Brenda Mallory On March 10, in the Miller Room, representatives of local Native communities offered up drumming and prayers to usher in the current, and fourth CCNA exhibit, "Connecting Lines." Brenda Mallory in the In this exhibit, artists Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation) and CCNA Gallery by her art work Luzene Hill (Eastern Band Cherokee), collaborators since 2015, have interpreted connections through ancestral history with a focus on issues of Native sovereignty and violence faced by Native women. Michael Murawski, Director of Education and Public Programs, offered an official welcome from the Portland Art Museum, main sponsor of the reception. Also welcoming the artists were supporting sponsors Native Arts and Culture Foundations's Rupert Ayton and NAAC's Kathleen Marquart. The reception was made lively by the congratulations of many friends, neighbors, and fellow Native artists. Included among the guests were members of Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, the Chinook Nation, and the Willamette Tsa-la-gi Community - Cherokee Nation. PAM's Native Art Advisory Board and NAAC members also welcomed the artists. All were provided with a preview of Luzene's video (subsequently installed in the CCNA exhibit) while taking turns to visit the gallery. This exhibit will remain on display through October 29, 2017. But don't wait! First, read more about the artists here http://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/ccna-connecting- lines/. Then, come see Brenda & Luzene's work in the CCNA! Perhaps you might just be there on a day when spring light in Luzene Hill in the CCNA the Gallery makes an appearance, too! Gallery by her art work NAAC Members at the NAYA Early Academy Luncheon, April 2017 CCNA Gallery, "Connecting Lines" Don't forget that Luzene Hill is giving a CCNA Gallery talk, Saturday, June 3rd at 2 p.m. A ticket is required. NAAC members Beverly Terry and Mary Sayler, seated, with PAM Native Art Advisory Committee Member Greg Archuleta, NAAC - 2017-2018 standing READING CIRCLE BOOKS READING CIRCLE ALL NAAC MEMBERS WELCOME! NAAC members Beverly Terry, Jan Berger, Laura Fallon-Burns, Stephanie Feeney, and NAYA Executive Director, Paul Lumley At the May 3rd Reading Circle, in the PAM Crumpacker Library, the books for 2017-2018 were selected BOOKS SELECTED FOR READING CIRCLE 2017-2018 Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - The Tao of Raven, by Ernestine Hayes (author of Blond Indian), 2016, 192 pp. In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, in some ways, less explored question: Jan Berger was the winning bidder for this once the exile returns, then what? Using the beautiful Pendleton tunic story of Raven and the Box of Daylight to and Dorothy Grant purse deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her fifties and becoming a professor and a writer. Hayes weaves together strands of memoir, contemplation, and fiction to articulate an indigenous J oiin My Maiilliing Liis t worldview in which all things are connected, in which intergenerational trauma creates many hardships but transformation is still possible. Forward to a Friiend Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Stay Connected 2013, 391 pp. Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," (Library Journal), Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take "us on a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.