Indie Folk: New Sounds and Art from the Pacific Northwest
at Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon
September 28 – December 21, 2024
Traver Gallery is thrilled to have three gallery represented artists, Marita Dingus, Jeffry Mitchell and Cappy Thompson participating in Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon. This exhibition features handmade work that seeks to blur the line between functionality and aesthetics. Artisanal woven baskets and tooled-wood objects mix with works without pretense, sometimes improvisational, and often employing found materials. For the artists—patchwork quilters and abstract painters alike—a rural and working-class ethos of generationally imparted knowledge is as foundational and valuable as academics and studio technique.
The exhibition features a multi-generational array of 17 notable artists from throughout the region including Marita Dingus, Warren Dykeman, Joe Feddersen, Blair Saxon-Hill, Sky Hopinka, Jeffry Mitchell and Cappy Thompson. A playlist of Indie Folk music selected by Portland’s Mississippi Records, a record label, shop, and venue will accompany the exhibition, filling the galleries with the sounds of the Pacific Northwest.
This exhibition was organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and guest curated by Melissa E. Feldman.
On view at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art from September 28 – December 21, 2024.
Members/VIP Opening Reception
September 28, 2024 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hallie Ford Museum of Art
For more information contact (503) 370-6855 or email museum-art@willamette.edu