Through Big Ideas, Engage People
The Coe offers unique, hands-on programs and exhibitions to engage and support communities, artists, and students of all ages. This enables deeper appreciation of the value of cultures all over the world…because the more we know about one other, the more we can work together for the common good.
Collections Spotlight with Jordan Poorman Cocker
This Collections Spotlight Zoom event with Jordan Poorman Cocker took place on December 15, 2020. Jordan Poorman Cocker is a curator, artist, and designer. Jordan is an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe and of Tongan descent and holds a Master of Museum and Heritage...
Cara Romero at the Coe
This series I’m working on is highly imaginative and evokes a familiar feeling for me. I keep thinking. “I feel like I’ve been here before.” Often while creating, I just have to really lean into my daydreaming space, my subconscious and trust where that takes me...
Collections Spotlight with Evelyn Vanderhoop
Evelyn Vanderhoop (Gaw Gitanee clan, Haida) is an artist of traditional Northern Northwest Coast textiles. Her art is in private, municipal, and museum collections internationally and she holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western Washington University, Bellingham,...
Collections Spotlight with Kelly Church
Photography by Richard Church. This Collections Spotlight event, a partnership with First American Art Magazine, was held on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, at 3 pm MDT and with artist Kelly Church. Kelly Church is a member of the Gun Lake Band in Michigan, and a...
Collections Spotlight with Melissa Shaginoff
This Collections Spotlight was held Tuesday, September 22, 2020, with Melissa Shaginoff entitled Dene (Athabascan) Art in Materials, Potlatch, and Collection. Melissa Shaginoff is part of the Udzisyu (caribou) and Cui Ui Ticutta (fish-eater) clans from Nay'dini'aa Na...
IMPRINT 2020
Above image is from the 2018 IMPRINT opening at the Coe Center. In the summer of 2018, the Coe partnered with an incredible group of artists and thinkers to create the exhibition IMPRINT. One goal of IMPRINT was to send art out into the community in different...
COLLECTIONS SPOTLIGHT with Jhon Goes in Center
Collections Spotlight, a program developed in partnership with First American Art Magazine, is a free interactive, online discussion that brings together the public, scholars, and Native artists who select artworks from the Coe’s collection to interpret and discuss....
Laurence A. G. Moss
Laurence A. G. Moss was raised in western Canada, Dr. Moss has lived and worked principally in western North America, Pacific Asia, and Central Europe. His North American base was Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1986 to 2006 when he returned to the Pacific Northwest with...
An Unassuming Dignity
Unknown (Pomo, Mendocino and Lake Counties, California), Feathered Gift Baskets, c. 1900. Two single rod baskets are woven on a foundation of willow sticks and sewn with sedge roots. Yellow feathers are from the breast of the meadowlark, and iridescent green feathers...
Andrew Eiseman, Advisory Board Director
Andrew Eiseman works where technology, business and the creative worlds meet; solving problems, moving teams along, and getting new products and services into the marketplace. Eiseman has experience in many parts of the world, with fifteen years of success in complex...
Dorothy H. Bracey, Advisory Board Director
Dorothy H. Bracey is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Comparative Legal Systems at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She holds a AB from the College of William and Mary, a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and a MLS from Yale Law...
Collections Spotlight with Leah Mata Fragua
This Collections Spotlight event took place on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, at 3 pm MDT with Leah Mata Fragua. Collections Spotlight, a program developed in partnership with First American Art Magazine, is a free interactive, online discussion that brings together...