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Exhibit celebrates Nez Perce people in their ancestral Oregon homeland
Exhibit celebrates Nez Perce people in their ancestral Oregon homeland
Exhibit celebrates Nez Perce people in their ancestral Oregon homeland

Published on: 05/17/2025

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Doug Hyde's bronze and granite sculpture,The Josephy Center for Art and Culture hosted an opening reception forNakia Cloud's ledger art honors a tradition dating back to the 1830s, when Indigenous people utilized pages from ledgers and other sources of discarded paper to draw and paint historical and cultural events. “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph. Kathy Patten/For The OregonianEllen Taylor of Pendleton contributed several acrylic paintings to theHand dyed porcupine quill hoop earrings by nimiipuu (Nez Perce) artist Michael Wilson Sr. of Lapwai, Idaho.  “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph.AntlerTwo acrylic on canvas abstractions by Phillip Cash Cash, titledKolle Kahle Riggs, librarian at the Josephy Library of History and Culture, shows one of the prints available for purchase during theTraditional Native basket weaving by Jacy Sohappy. (“BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph. Kathy Patten/For The OregonianBrian McCormack shows a traditional corn husk and beaded neck bag. A landscape architect, entrepreneur and musician, the Lewiston, Idaho-based artist studied printmaking with renowned Native American artist Marvin Oliver and contributed several prints to the exhibit.  “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph.Phillip Cash Cash, Cayuse/Nez Perce, contributed three works to the exhibition, including this acrylic on canvas that he describes asPaintings, both traditional and with a modern twist, by Ellen Taylor and Nakia Cloud.  “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph.- “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph.Traditional basket weaving by Jacy Sohappy. A very versatile artist, she is the traditional arts director at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton and community engagement director at Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland in Wallowa.  “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph.- “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph. Kathy Patten/For The OregonianRed Elk Tooth Wool Dress (For My Princess), sewn by Jacy Sohappy using wool, imitation elk teeth, ribbon, seed beads and shells. “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph.Rich Wandschneider, director of the Josephy Library of Western History and Culture, talks with Stacia Morfin, director of the ‘ITAM’YANÁAWIT Small Business Program of the Nez Perce, during an opening reception ofEmma Chief is the youngest artist in the exhibition, at 18 years old, and contributed several of her works. She honors her Native ancestry through watercolor and paint marker techniques.  “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph. Kathy Patten/For The OregonianThe Josephy Center for Art and Culture hosted an opening reception forA contemporary dress sewn by Jacy Sohappy and ledger art painted by Nakia Cloud are on display at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph through June 6.  “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph.Wallowa Lake, six miles south of Joseph, once teemed with blueback (sockeye) salmon. Nez Perce people camped along its shores for thousands of summers to harvest, dry and preserve this staple food. A concrete dam constructed about 100 years ago prohibits the salmon from migrating to the lake now, although efforts are underway by the Tribe and conservation groups to provide fish passage. Today, prized kokanee, a landlocked salmon, can be caught in the deep glacially-formed waters, after their successful reintroduction in the 1960s.  “BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph. Kathy Patten/For The OregonianJacy Sohappy of Pendleton contributed a variety of her artistic pieces to the

JOSEPH — Under the watchful eye of Chief Joseph Mountain still pristine with snow, stories of the nimiipuu (or Nez Perce people) are being shared through vibrant visual art in the surroundings of their ancestral northeastern Oregon homeland, Wallowa, “Land of the Winding Waters.”

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/native-american-news/2025/05/exhibit-celebrates-nez-perce-people-in-their-ancestral-oregon-homeland.html

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