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Two shows open next month at the Brinton Museum at Big Horn.
Both start on March 13, according to Barbara McNab, the Brinton’s curator of exhibitions and museum education.
“Small Expressions,” a fiber arts exhibition, will be on display in the S. K. Johnston Jr. Family Gallery. This is an annual juried exhibition by the museum in partnership with Sheridan Creative Fiber Guild, featuring 31 contemporary small-scale works that use different fiber or textile techniques in a variety of media.
A reception featuring light fare and beverages will be held free to the public from 2-4 p.m. March 13, and the show will be up through May 9.
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Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation s gift to fund art gallery, expanded capacity
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) The Sisters-based Roundhouse Foundation is awarding $6 million to the High Desert Museum, the largest single donation in the museum’s nearly 40-year history, the museum announced Thursday.
“The museum is coming up on our 40
th anniversary next year, and this gift is really ready to launch us for the next 40 years,” said Dana Whitelaw, Ph.D, the museum s executive director.
Officials said in the announcement that the gift will support the long-term vision for the future of the museum, which includes more capacity for educational programming, immersive experiences, and in collaboration with Tribal partners, an update of the Museum’s permanent exhibition on the past and present of the Indigenous people of the Columbia Plateau,
Estonian researcher helps restore the mask-making tradition of the indigenous people of Alaska
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The Yup’ik people living in southwest Alaska first came into contact with outsiders in the 1820s. A century later, under the influence of Christian missionaries, a large portion of the Yup’ik communities stopped making masks, and the knowledge and skills related to mask making faded. However, masks found on archaeological excavations today encourage the Yup’ik to continue their mask-making tradition in a new form, as is revealed in a doctoral thesis defended at Tallinn University.