Greetings;

You are invited to visit two new exhibitions installed at the Longhouse through November:

"tuwaduq Soul Recovery Exhibit" Assembled by subiyay (Gerald Bruce Miller), the exhibit is one of the rarest collections of South Puget Salish ceremonial paraphernalia ever assembled in the past three generations. The exhibition shares most of the items the tuwaduq used in what is known in English as the Soul Recovery Ceremony.

The Longhouse is honored to be the first venue to host this exhibition, which was funded by the Ford Foundation as part of the Longhouse's Artist-in-Residence program. Gerald Bruce Miller was awarded the National Heritage Award by the National Endowment for the Arts and was a founding member of the Longhouse's Native Arts steering committee until his passing in February, 2004. His nephew, Dr. Michael Pavel, completed work on the project along with various apprentices from the Skokomish community.

The "Journeys in Creativity: Explorations in Native Art and Culture" features work by Warm Springs and Portland area youth. In June 2005 the Oregon College of Art and Craft partnered with the Warm Springs Museum to bring native and non-native youth (ages 15-19) to the college to create art with noted Native artists Lillian Pitt, Pat Courtney Gold, Marie Watt and Ramon Murillo.

We are pleased to have the work of contemporary Native youth exhibited alongside the work of one of our beloved NW elders.

Tina Kuckkahn, director
Longhouse Education and Cultural Center
(360) 867-5344