WATER: NFS is the first exhibition in our new large-scale program Site, replacing our 2021 Biennial for pandemic safety. Site was created to utilize Oregon Contemporary’s strength as a large-scale venue in order to provide a new way of supporting Oregon artists at this time, giving them an opportunity for a solo exhibition and the ability to make new work as they expand and grow their creative practices.
For the Site exhibition at Oregon Contemporary, Natalie Ball will collaborate with artist Annelia Hillman pue-leek-la' (Yurok) to bring you into their worlds of resistance. They will create a space that challenges viewers and highlights Oregon – California’s water wars, drought, and land rights that affect and connect the two as Matriarchs, artists, and Mothers.
Natalie Ball x Thriving Peoples. Thriving Places.
INDIGENOUS GUARDIANSHIP: Nia Tero, a Seattle-based foundation focused on securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems, and Amplifier have come together to launch the THRIVING PEOPLES. THRIVING PLACES. media campaign in honor of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The THRIVING PEOPLES. THRIVING PLACES. campaign uplifts the stories of nine Indigenous women leaders from locales spanning from the Philippines and New Zealand to the Brazilian Amazon and the Arctic.
Natalie Ball with Verbier 3-D Foundation x PUZZLES WITH PURPOSE
A global initiative striving to support international contemporary artists during the global pandemic with a percentage of proceeds supporting select Artist Choice Charities. 10% of the proceeds will go to The Klamath Tribes’ AMBO FUND. Ambo means water in our language, and the AMBO FUND was established in response to the crisis for clean water in the Klamath Basin and to help save two critically endangered fish on the brink of extinction. Launches 9/21/2021
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation has been awarded a multi-million dollar gift to support its mission of equity and cultural knowledge. We hear more about what that will mean for the organization and its work from Lulani Arquette, President, and CEO of NACF. We also meet Natalie Ball, one of the organization’s fellows. Ball’s art focuses on her Klamath and Modoc tribal heritage and contemporary culture.
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is pleased to announce Natalie Ball (Black, Modoc and Klamath Tribes) as the recipient of the Oregon Native Artist Fellowship (ONAF). Ball’s work addresses racial narratives critical to the understanding of both the self and the nation and our shared experiences and histories. Her multilayered assemblages incorporate personal objects that are full of stories and inner lives. Ball redeploys and recontextualizes iconography typically associated with Native American cultures to propose different narratives of Indigenous life in the United States.
Choosing the Present: Indigenous Women Artists on Contemporary Realities
Featuring Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Natalie Ball; Co-hosted by Sheri Parks, Ph.D., Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, and Savannah Imani Wade ’21 (General Fine Arts BFA)
In her solo presentation of recent sculptures with New York’s Half Gallery, “Powwow Grand Entry,” Natalie Ball redeploys and recontextualizes iconography typically associated with Native American cultures to propose different narratives of Indigenous life in the United States…
