2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Pacific
Greg A. Robinson (Chinook Nation), an artist whose work is shown in current exhibition The Columbia River: Wallula to the Sea featuring works by Thomas Jefferson Kitts and Erik Sandgren, will join artist Greg Archuleta (Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde) to talk about Indigenous perspectives on the Columbia River.
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About the Speakers:
Greg A. Robinson is a member of the Chinook Indian Nation located in Bay Center Washington. The Chinook Indian Nation is a confederation of the five most western tribes, the Lower Chinook, Clatsop, Willapa, Wahkiakum and Cathlamet located in SW Washington State near the mouth of the Columbia River.
Primarily self taught, Robinson has throughout his life had an affinity for wildlife and art, both of which guide his passion for making art. His past and current works in the traditional Chinookan art forms pays tribute to the Columbia River ancestors, to whom art, life, stories, and culture are strongly interrelated. Through his art and instruction he inspires younger generations of Chinookan artists in the region.
Robinson produces work in different mediums in the style of the Chinookan peoples of the middle to lower Columbia River and Willapa Bay. Working primarily in wood, large stone, bone and hide, he draws inspiration and technical knowledge from the study of ancient and contemporary works in private and museum collections, including the Portland Art Museum and the Burke Museum.
Robinson’s public art commissions are permanently on view at the Multnomah Falls National Scenic Park and the Parkersville Historic Park in Camas, WA, Tillikum Crossing in Portland, OR, and at the Portland Japanese Garden.
Greg Archuleta is Clackamas Chinook, Santiam Kalapuya, and Shasta, and a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. He teaches about the culture and history of the Tribes of Western Oregon, including ethnobotany, carving, cedar hat making, Native art design, and basketry.
Robinson graduated from the University of Oregon, where he earned a Bachelors in Journalism and Political Science. He worked in policy, planning , and administration for the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde for nearly two decades before creating Lifeways Cultural Education, an off-reservation program sharing traditional knowledge about ancestral foods, the cultural arts, crafts, and ecology in community education classes for Grande Ronde people living today.
His work is in the Portland Art Museum’s Center for Contemporary Native Art and he is part of the Confluence Project. In 2019, Greg was selected as a contributing artist for the Exquisite Gorge project, a massive 66-foot steamrolled relief print project orchestrated by Maryhill Museum of Art.
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