by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 30, 2025 | Joseph Oregon, Josephy Center, Nez Perce art, Nez Perce Homeland, Nez Perce Tourism, Nez Perce Tribe
We opened “Bloodlines: Nez Perce Art” on Saturday at the Josephy Center. Bloodlines, we thought, would describe the multigenerational and family nature of the art. And traditional weaving and ledger art could stand beside bright modern acrylic paintings. The show...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 9, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, Deb Haaland, Fishtrap, Josephy Center, Josephy Library, Nez Perce Homeland, Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest, Uncategorized
I’m privileged, I tell visitors to the Josephy Center, to be at this place in this time, riding a wave of good feelings and sympathies for Native Americans. We see the Yuroks buying and rehabbing land in Northern California, managing for wild flora and fauna and...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 18, 2020 | Doug Hyde, Joseph Main Street, Josephy Center, Nez Perce
With all of the fear and uncertainty of recent weeks, we had a blessing fall into our laps. We had commissioned a video account of our Main Street sculpture project last summer, and we now have the completed 4-minute video. The work, by artist Doug Hyde, brings up a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 8, 2020 | Josephy Center, Kimmerer, Sweetgrass
Our Josephy Center book group is reading Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by indigenous writer and professor of botany Robin Wall Kimmerer. We’ll have a discussion of the book on Monday night, March 9, at 7:00...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 20, 2019 | Doug Hyde, Josephy Center, Nez Perce art
Hello Friends,First off, thank you for reading my blog posts, coming to Brown Bag programs, stopping by to talk about books, Indians, treaties, wild foods, dams, fish, art, and the state of the world.It’s been a fine year at the Josephy Center: wonderful exhibits...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 9, 2019 | Alvin Josephy, Chief Joseph, Doug Hyde, Josephy Center, Nespelem, Nez Perce, walwa’ma
Like many Natives, Doug Hyde was born off-reservation, is of mixed tribal descent, and is a veteran of the Vietnam War. Unlike most, but still a significant number of talented Native artists, Doug was sent from his reservation to the Indian Art School at Santa Fe as a...
