The Confluence Project Comes to Hood River
Winter Program: Native American Arts
Four Week Columbia Arts Studio Program
This winter we are proud to be partnering with The Confluence Project: Gifts From Our Ancestors to offer students the opportunity to explore traditional tools and techniques used by Native Americans along the Columbia Basin. The focus of this exploration is on the history of Celilo Falls.
January / February Classes
Hood River Middle School
March 5 - 8
Digital Story Telling Workshop
With special guests:
Digital storyteller, Katie Basile and Warm Springs visual artist, Lillian Pitt
Students will develop a digital story using IMovie and Garage Band as they explore the significance of Celilo Falls to the indigenous people of the Columbia River Basin.
- Grades 6 - 8
- 3:00p - 5:00p
- CAT Bus transportation to and from the art center
- Healthy snack included
- Free to participants
To register contact Education Coordinator, Shelley Toon Hight at education@columbiaarts.org or 541 490-9297
January / February Classes
- Fee: $85 (Scholarships available upon request based on financial need.)
- Students will be picked up at their school and returned at the designated time by the CAT Bus and Education Coordinator, Shelley Toon Hight.
- Students will receive a healthy snack and 1 1/2 hours of visual art instruction.
Westside Elementary School
January 17, 24, 31, February 7
Ceramic Masks and Weaving
- K-5th grade
- Limit: 15 students
- CAT Bus pick up 2:45pm; return to school 5:00pm
May Street Elementary School
January 19, 26, February 2,9
Ceramic Masks and Weaving
- K-5th grade
- Limit: 15 students
- CAT Bus pick up 2:35pm; return to school 4:45pm
The Confluence Project
Gifts from Our Ancestors is a two-year program led by the Confluence Project, local artists, and educators to engage over 1,500 tribal and non-tribal students through multiple forms of artistic, musical and oral expression practiced by Native Americans along the Columbia River for generations. Central to this engagement is Celilo Falls.
The project, led by Warm Springs artist Lillian Pitt, has awarded a grant to Columbia Center for the Arts is a 2011 -2012, which makes this educational event possible. Other organizations, including fifteen schools from Celilo Village and North Wasco, Sherman, Dufur, Wishram, Hood River, White Salmon, and Corbett school districts have been selected.
Learn more about the Confluence Project.
Learn more about Lillian Pitt.
Registration
Register online by clicking here: School's Out Art's In
More Information
Contact Shelley Toon Hight at 541 387-8877, ext. 114 or education@columbiaarts.org with questions.)
About School's Out / Art's In
School's Out/Art's In after-school art program serves all five elementary schools and two middle schools in Hood River County.
We offer two programs: one located on school grounds in partnership with Prime Time and one in the Columbia Arts studio.
School's Out/Art's In runs throughout the school year.
Information regarding upcoming classes will be updated as new sessions are created. Sessions held on school grounds are free to students, thanks to generous funding from Mary Norris Preyer Foundation, Gary M. Anderson Children' Fund and The Confluence Project: Gifts From Our Ancestors.
About Columbia Art Gallery
Columbia Art Gallery, located in the Columbia Center for the Arts, is a non-profit community gallery with the mission to promote an arts-rich environment in the Columbia River Gorge. Click for directions and hours of operation.