Rebecca Dobkins, PhD, Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Native American Art, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University
This talk draws upon Dr. Rebecca Dobkins’s recently published book The Art of Ceremony: Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon (University of Washington Press) to explore how Indigenous customary practices of plant tending, harvesting, and weaving can contribute to broader conversations about art-making and tribal sovereignty in the Northwest.
The David and Anne McCosh Memorial Visiting Lecturer Series on Northwest Art is an annual program focused on topics related to Pacific Northwest art history and contemporary connections. This program is generously funded by the David John and Anne Kutka McCosh Memorial Museum Endowment Fund.
This lecture also supports the UO’s Common Reading of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer and the JSMA’s Common Seeing exhibition Our Shared Breath: Creativity and Community.
