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What differentiates Native American art in Oregon from Native art in other parts of the Pacific Northwest, and what might this tell us about our state’s identity? How are Oregon’s history and culture represented in Native art and how can we learn more about our community’s values and aspirations by looking at the artwork? Portland State University scholar-in-residence Tracy Prince will facilitate an interactive program that will examine these questions and others in an historical consideration of Oregon’s Native American art. A brief slide show of Native art from across Oregon will supplement the conversation.
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Program available through October 2013
Tracy Prince has taught university classes on Native American art and literature for nineteen years. She studies traditions that have survived the suppression of Native identity and customs. While doing genealogical research, Prince uncovered hospital records listing her great-grandmother's race as "mixed" (likely Cherokee or Choctaw); typical for early twentieth century, her great-grandmother passed for white, hiding her Native heritage. Born in Little Rock, Prince has lived all over the world, teaching in or spending extensive research time in Turkey, Australia, England, Canada, and throughout the US. She has taught in humanities, English, and urban studies and planning departments. Her book Portland’s Goose Hollow (2011) explores the history of Native, Chinese, Irish, German, and Jewish residents of one of Portland’s oldest neighborhoods.
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