Crow’s Shadow Exhibit, Lightcatcher Museum, Bellingham, WA

 This exhibition, organized by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in partnership with the Crow's Shadow Institute of Arts, chronicles the history of Crow’s Shadow over the past twenty-five years as it developed into an important native printmaking atelier in Pendleton, Oregon. Founded by Oregon painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla), who envisioned a traditional arts studio focused on printmaking, Crow’s Shadow is the only professional printmaking studio located on a reservation community in the United States.  Cool, right?

I am a big fan of modern interpretations of ancient things.  These two are just the tip of the iceberg at this exhibit.  Above is Rabbit Dance by Lillian Pitt (Yakima) and to the left is
Raven Heart by Ric Gendron (Colville Confederated Tribes). They have a bit of modernity to them but have a foot in tradition as well. 
There are a number of things that I loved in this exhibit.  One is that there are echoes of old and new.  The other is that there is a focus on things that are made by hand and on animals.  the natural world, and the things that people make with their hands from nature are things that I like in art.