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The Museum of Natural and Cultural History is now accepting nominations for its third annual Oregon Stewardship Award.
Spearheaded by the museum’s advisory council, the award recognizes an individual or organization that has involved the community in an environmental or cultural project that aligns with the museum’s mission to inspire stewardship of Oregon’s collective past, present and future.
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During the summer of 2019, OFN conducted its 6th regional folklife survey. We were delighted to bring back veteran folklorist Douglas Manger and mid-career folklorist Joe O’Connell.
Thanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, OFN hired veteran folklorist Douglas Manger and mid-career folklorist Joe O’Connell to conduct fieldwork with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and in the counties of Clatsop, Tillamook, and Lincoln, as well as the coastal sections of Lane and Douglas counties.
 
Douglas Manger Joseph O'Connell
We at OFN are most grateful for partners such as the Columbia River Maritime Museum, Coast Council for the Arts, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, the Finnish Brotherhood in Astoria, and all the culture keepers who generously allowed us to document their traditions. We hope to partner with some of those organizations for public programs with traditional artists in the region.
As part of our process, OFN asks professional folklorists to mentor UO Folklife and Public Culture students. Iris Teeuwen and Christal Snyder, 2nd year Folklore graduate students, shadowed Douglas and Joe during two trips to Oregon’s coastal communities, where they learned by watching, listening, and doing to implement best fieldwork practices. The graduate students keep field journals (fieldnotes), take photos, write reflection pieces on their experiences, and create articles for OFN’s newsletter. Our contract folklorists do the same.
  Crystal Snyder Iris Teeuwen
We invite you to enjoy and learn about their experiences.
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Joseph O'Connell
On the central and northern parts of the Oregon coast, worlds meet—land and sea, work and leisure, old and new. In social and cultural terms, no place evokes the region’s contrasts more than Newport’s historic bayfront. Along a short strip of Bay Boulevard, commercial fishing, ocean science, and tourism intermingle. Visitors can buy taffy and souvenirs, visit the wax museum, or descend to an underwater viewing platform. Yet they are never more than a few doors away from one of several seafood processing plants.
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Douglas Manger
Like a twisting myrtlewood tree growing close by the sea, Highway 101 makes its way in circuitous fashion along Oregon’s spectacular Pacific coastline. During the month of August, Joe O’Connell and I trekked this evocative route, flush with names that spark imaginings of what folkways might be found in places like Winchester Bay, Dunes City, Yachats, Seal Rock, Neskowin, Manzanita, Astoria.
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Christal Synder & Iris Teeuwen
Photo by Iris Teeuwen
Photo by Christal Synder
In Clatsop County, we observed Finnish traditions, foodways, and seaways, while in Lincoln County we experienced chainsaw carving, the Siletz Pow-Wow, and waterways traditions. Those interactive and behind-the-scenes experiences that folklorists in the field get to experience are priceless. We are most grateful to the UO Folklore and Public Culture program, which funded our graduate student fieldwork internship travel expenses.
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Congratulations to Roberta J Kirk for her First Peoples Fund Community Spirit Award! This award honors Roberta Kirk for her beautiful traditional beadwork and regalia as well as her devotion and service to her community and tribe. She has been a master artist in OFN's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) and is on the Culture Keepers Roster.
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We are happy to announce the return of and updates to our Buckaroo Traditions of Oregon exhibit! This exhibit celebrates the continuity of occupational traditions in rural Oregon and encourages audience understanding and appreciation of art forms arising from ranching practices...
OFN’s Buckaroo exhibit augments the Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s Blake Little: Photographs From The Gay Rodeo exhibit, which has been extended to February 20, 2020. The gay rodeo movement began in the 1970s, combining gay and cowboy culture to combat stereotypes and create a community for marginalized individuals among the rodeo scene.
Buckaroo Exhibit at the OFN
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OFN is thrilled to accept a $47,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support Oregon’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (TAAP) and other statewide initiatives that promote folk and traditional arts. Additional funding from the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Historical Society make it possible for us to support TAAP to the extent that we do.
The five 2020 Oregon master traditional artists are mentoring experienced apprentices from their own culture groups and Tribes.
Meet Oregon’s 2020 TAAP awardees.
- Hossein Salehi is teaching apprentice Alireza Talebannejad to play the Persian santoor.
- Josue Noel Napoles Mendoza is teaching Mexican charrería (trick-roping) to Columbia Napoles Mendoza
- Miguel Angel Ruiz Rangel is teaching Mexican talabartería (leather work) to Antonio Huerta
- H’Klumaiyat-Roberta Joy Kirk is teaching Longhouse/Plateau sewing and beadworking to Maria Godines
- Celeste Whitewolf is teaching Cayuse/Nez Perce/Umatilla weaving and gathering to Brosnan Spencer
All will be mentoring apprentices from their own culture groups and Tribes in the traditional forms noted.
OFN is now accepting applications for next year’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program (Due Oct 1, 2020 for projects in 2021). TAAP offers folk and traditional master artists and culture keepers a $3,500 stipend to teach their art form to apprentices from their own communities, Tribes, religious or occupational groups. This stipend supports master artists to share their knowledge, skills and expertise with apprentices of great promise who will be empowered to carry on and strengthen Oregon’s living cultural traditions.
We encourage applications from Oregonians practicing cultural traditions emerging from their own heritage or Tribes. This program does not fund historic reenactments or cultural appropriation.
To learn more about application procedures and eligibility or to recommend a TAAP applicant, visit ofn.uoregon.edu, email ofn@uoregon.edu, or call 541-346-3820. Our staff members are standing by to provide application advice and will provide feedback on draft applications sent prior to submission.
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Rebecca Pace is a first-year M.A. student in Folklore and Public Culture and will be working at the OFN for the 2019 - 2020 Academic Year. Originally from Los Angeles, Rebecca earned her B.A. in Theatre and Cinema Studies, with a minor in Psychology, from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She returns to the west coast after residing in Washington, D.C. for several years – working in various industries such as public policy, non-profits, and communications, resulting in becoming a Certified Associate Project Manager (CAPM).
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