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.
How is the Coe?
When talking with friends, colleagues, and supporters, these days I often get the question, How is the Coe? and What are you doing at the Coe? Not surprising questions provided the times we are living through, particularly for a small organization like the Coe...
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....
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...
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...
“The Giant Eskimo” by James Kivetoruk Moses
James Kivetoruk Moses (Inupiaq, Seward Peninsula, Nome Region, Alaska), The Eskimo Giant, c. 1970. Pen and Ink on cardboard. Private Collection James Kivetoruk Moses (1903-1981) was a self-taught Inupiaq painter who created profoundly perceptive narrative works...