Photos, prints, lectures, film screenings, and special events focus on the work of photographer Edward Curtis
BEND, OR. – August 11, 2015 – A6’s “Edward Curtis: Shadow Catcher” exhibit will open for First Friday Art Walk, September 4 and run through October 31, 2015 in Bend, Oregon. Admission is free.
The rare exhibit offers a window to the past, with more than 50 original prints of Native American tribal members from the Pacific Northwest photographed by Curtis in the early 1900s. Curtis’s portraits of chiefs, warriors, hunters, fishermen, basket weavers, and medicine women provide an intimate look at what Curtis feared was a vanishing way of life.
A special opportunity for collectors, every Edward Curtis print in A6’s exhibit is now available for purchase. Interested collectors are invited to attend A6’s Curtis Collector Event on September 1. Registration is required; collectors can call A6 or register here. These original vintage photographs come fromvolumes and portfolios of Curtis’s epic project, The North American Indian. Collectors may request a list of available prints by calling A6 at 541.330.8759 or download a list of prints published in the Edward Curtis Collector Guide.
A6 will welcome Christopher Cardozo, the nation’s top collector and foremost expert on Edward Curtis, to the Tower Theatre on September 5 for a presentation, “Beauty, Heart and Spirit: The Sacred Legacy of Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian.” Purchase tickets.
“Curtis Fever” (#CurtisFever) will build throughout September and October with events and exhibits focused on the art, life, and legacy of Edward Curtis. High Desert Museum will present a companion exhibit, “From the Vault: Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian,” Sep 4-Oct 31, and host a screening of Curtis’ 1914 silent film, “In the Land of the Headhunters” at the museum on October 19 at 7 pm.
BendFilm will air Anne Peacemaker’s award-winning documentary, “Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians” as a prelude to its 2015 film festival. The documentary will screen at Tin Pan Theater in downtown Bend on September 28 and at the Madras Performing Arts Center on October 3 at 4 pm.
Deschutes Public Library Foundation will welcome award-winning author Timothy Egan October 1 for “Author!Author!” Egan wrote the best-selling Edward Curtis biography, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.
A6 will run exhibit tours of “Edward Curtis: Shadow Catcher” every Saturday at 4 pm starting September 12 through October 31. No registration is required; the tour is $6 per person.
About Edward Curtis
Edward Curtis was an elite portrait photographer in Seattle in the 1890s. His famous images of Chief Seattle’s daughter, “Princess Angeline,” and a war-weary Chief Joseph launched Curtis on an ambitious path to document 80 tribes. Befriended by President Theodore Roosevelt and funded by J.P. Morgan, Curtis labored 30 years to create the 20-volume work, The North American Indian.
About A6 Gallery (Atelier 6000)
A6 is a non-profit studio and art gallery centered on printmaking and book arts in Bend, Oregon. The A6 Gallery features monthly exhibits of original prints and artist books. A6 participates in Bend, Oregon’s First Friday Art Walk. A6 offers school programs, community art talks, and studio workshops.
For more art gallery and exhibit information, visit atelier6000.org.
MEDIA CONTACT
Executive Director Dawn Boone
541.330.8759
dawn@atelier6000.org
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