10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Experience the dynamic forces that shape Oregon’s landscapes, climate, and ecosystems. Meet giant salmon, Ice Age sloths, and other amazing animals from across the millennia. Through interactive displays and rare specimens, you’ll go deep into Oregon’s past and join a conversation about our collective future.
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Delve into Oregon’s story, from the archaeology of the First Americans to the dynamic cultures of today’s Tribes.
Combining interactive displays with world-class anthropological collections, Oregon—Where Past is Present shares 14,000 years of Oregon stories, and invites you to tell your own. Explore the galleries, try your hand at ancient weaving styles, test your skills as an archaeologist, and much more.
Chinese immigrants helped shape Oregon’s history. Come discover the stories and resilience of early Chinese Americans.
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Chinese immigrants helped shape Oregon’s history. Come discover the stories and resilience of early Chinese Americans.
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
An exhibition presenting now and future Indigiqueer ancestors who move beyond boundaries in life and art.
Artists: a.c. ramírez de arellaño | Evan Benally Atwood | Geo Soctomah Neptune | Jeffrey Gibson | Lehuauakea | Qahir-beejee Peco | Roin Morigeau | Steph Littlebird | Walter Scott
Curated by Anthony Hudson and Felix Furby.
Sponsored by Chachalu Tribal Museum and Cultural Center, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, and New Expressive Work.
10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
An exhibition presenting now and future Indigiqueer ancestors who move beyond boundaries in life and art.
Artists: a.c. ramírez de arellaño | Evan Benally Atwood | Geo Soctomah Neptune | Jeffrey Gibson | Lehuauakea | Qahir-beejee Peco | Roin Morigeau | Steph Littlebird | Walter Scott
Curated by Anthony Hudson and Felix Furby.
Sponsored by Chachalu Tribal Museum and Cultural Center, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, and New Expressive Work.
10:00–11:00 a.m.
Can Indigenous artists, curators, and historians resist the colonial narrative of art museums when the museum itself is a colonizer institution? Reflecting on his own experience visiting the museum on the Gila River Indian Community, David Martínez argues that the path to resistance lay in the land itself.
With David Martínez (Akimel O'odham/Hia-Ced O'odham/Mexican), Professor of American Indian Studies and Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
Cosponsored by Oregon Humanities Center, History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
6:00–7:00 p.m.
How are Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—forms of resistance to settler colonialism? Join UO professor Ashley Cordes (enrolled citizen of the Kō-Kwel/Coquille Nation) for a reading from her new book, Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age, in which she examines this question and more. Books available for purchase.
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Transgressors co-curator Anthony Hudson and artist Steph Littlebird discuss decolonizing museum exhibits, honoring Indigiqueer ancestors through art, and what it means—and how—to design a show to tour tribal homelands.