Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke, born 1981), "Where Bears Dance", 2024, ed. 25, nine-color lithograph, printed by Judith Baumann, 26 x 22 inches, Crow’s Shadow Print Archive, CSP 23-101 (CSPI 2). Photo: Frank Miller.
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial
July 12, 2025 – June 20, 2026
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial, a popular biennial exhibition hosted by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art since 2006, will feature a selection of contemporary prints created at this important printmaking atelier in northeastern Oregon during the past two years. Organized by Rebecca Dobkins, professor emerita of anthropology at Willamette University and curator of Indigenous art at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the exhibition opens July 12, 2025 and continues through June 20, 2026, in the Study Gallery and Print Study Center.
D. E. May (American, 1952-2019), Untitled (Mill Race to Footbridge), 1980, pattern paper, colored pencil, and graphite on found paper, 17 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches, Courtesy of PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland. Photo credit: Mario Gallducci.
D. E. May: Postcards from Islandsalem
January 24 – March 21, 2026
Maribeth Collins Lobby and Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
From January 24 to March 21, 2026, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon will present D. E. May: Postcards from Islandsalem, a forty plus year retrospective exhibition for this important Salem mixed media artist who passed away in 2019 from pancreatic cancer just as he was emerging onto the national art scene. Organized by independent curator Linda Tesner, the exhibition will feature a range of objects created over the past four decades including collages, drawings, paintings, sculptures, templates, testbeds, and mail art, among others.