Past Events / Exhibitions - 2007
October 19, 2007 – January 5, 2008
Missouri River EXPOSED
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Joe Riis, with a background in wildlife biology and environmental studies, collaborated with many local and state agencies as well as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and the National Park Service to produce his photography exhibit focusing on current ecological river issues as well as the endangered Pallid sturgeon, the endangered Least tern and the threatened Piping Plover. More than 200 years after the Lewis & Clark journey made the United States a bicoastal nation, Riis traveled from the headwaters of the Missouri River in Montana by kayak, car, and plane to the confluence with the Mississippi River in St. Louis to showcase the beauty of the Missouri River and to inform people on the current state of the longest river in the U.S.
July 20, 2007 - September 28, 2007
Witness to History: The March on Washington
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| Afternoon Beside the Reflecting Pool |
On a hot and muggy August 28 in 1963 hundreds of thousands of American people marched around the National Mall to protest for civil rights, desegregation and federal programs to end poverty. This was the great March on Washington which ended that afternoon with the “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. David M. Granahan, an employee of the Department of Agriculture, took the day off to document the marchers and he captured the activities with his watercolor and ink sketches.
The Interior Museum is the first to exhibit Granahan’s complete set of ten original watercolors depicting the March. His paintings capture the determination of the marchers surrounded by the national monuments. more
April 20 - Summer 2007
Reinventing Tradition: American Indian Design in Contemporary Clothing
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| New Keechi Style Dress, Nettie Standing, Kiowa, 1950s, from the collection of the Southern Plains Indian Museum, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, USDI. |
Clothing and fashion are hot in today’s visual world, and American Indians have always paid closed attention to the details and implications of what they wore. Traditionally they have used natural materials such as porcupine quills, animal skins, bark, and shell to create a distinctive look, a statement, a style with their clothes. Examples of traditional clothing and adornment, primarily from the 1900’s, including extremely delicate pieces such as a woven spruce root Haida hat will be on view in this exhibit. In comparison to the traditional objects will be the work of contemporary Indian designers who create clothing that today can be worn to work, for a wedding, on the streets of New York, or the runways of Paris. Indian designers have entered all fashion markets from the ready to wear to haute culture. The diversity in design and style is stunning but the inspiration from traditional design is always apparent. The exhibit will be on view from April 20 through the summer and contains many contemporary outfits, rarely seen pieces from the permanent collections of the Interior Museum, and photographs of contemporary and traditional clothing.
March 16 - May 21,2007
Portrait of a Divided Maritime Family, Reinforcing Siberian Yupik Connections with Art
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| Courtesy of L. Saunders McNeill. |
A photography exhibit by L. Saunders McNeill. McNeill, in collaboration with the National Park Service, began this project in 1998 with the purpose of using art and photography to strengthen ties between internationally dispersed Siberian Yupik family members living on the islands of the Bering Sea. McNeill worked with hundreds of community members to document and photograph the proud and hard working people separated by harsh seas, international boundaries and loss of a common spoken language. McNeill’s crisp portraits capture the weathered beauty of a seafaring people and her poetic journal entries convey the sadness and humor of their lives. The exhibit will open to the public on March 16, 2007 and be on view until May 21, 2007. This exhibit will be open to the public during the third Saturday in March.
April 6, 2007
Presentation & Book Signing
Author Anne O'Brien discusses and signs her newly released TRAVELING INDIAN ARIZONA along with Special Guest, Sarah Bird-in-Ground (Pima) who will share her knowledge on the Pima and O'odham Indian cultures
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