September 21 - December 11, 2026
"Tahoma", Finn Christensen
Art and Place: Native Weaving and Mapping in the Pacific Northwest (taught by Susan Pavel and Zoltán Grossman in 2025-26) used art and geography as “common ground,” incorporating cross-cultural learning to explore relationships of Pacific Northwest Native peoples to place. These connections were expressed artistically and geographically through Native wool weaving and cartography (mapmaking), particularly in Coast Salish territory along the Salish Sea in Washington and British Columbia.
The program “wove together” Native art and place, based on the geographies and worldviews of Pacific Northwest Native nations, and developed student skills in wool weaving and cartography to express these worldviews. In fall and winter quarters, the class collaborated with the Coast Salish Wool Weaving Center and its Burke Museum exhibit "Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving."
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