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Into the Archives: Photography from the Colville Reservation

  • 1.  Into the Archives: Photography from the Colville Reservation

    Posted Mar 16, 2021 05:10 PM
    The Clyfford Still Museum is hosting a virtual program on Thursday March 18, 2021, presented in partnership with Denver Month of Photography, on photography taken at the Colville Reservation in 1936-1937.

    In 1937, Clyfford Still co-founded an artists' colony in Nespelem, the Indian Agency on the Colville Reservation in Washington state. During his time there, Still sketched and photographed the Native Americans whose livelihoods had been negatively impacted by the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam by the U.S. government. F    eaturing a conversation between Milo Carpenter, CSM associate digital archivist and Michael Holloman, Washington State University associate professor and member of the Colville Confederated Tribes. Their conversation will shed light on the creation and context of these photographs.

    If you are interested in attending this program please register here: Into the Archives: Photography from the Colville Reservation - Clyfford Still Museum
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    Into the Archives: Photography from the Colville Reservation - Clyfford Still Museum
    "Prior to the building of Grand Coulee Dam, the upper Columbia River watershed was an isolated area more affiliated with the frontier than as a testament to one of mankind's most remarkable engineering achievements. Fifteen miles north stood the Colville Indian Agency, where then unknown artist Clyfford Still became personally aware of the inequity of tribal rights and representation."
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    Milo Carpenter
    Clyfford Still Museum
    Denver CO
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