Rebecca Dobkins

Rebecca Dobkins is a Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Native American Art at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. She is the author of three exhibition-related monographs: Memory and Imagination: The Work of Maidu Indian Artist Frank Day (1997); Rick Bartow: My Eye (2001); and Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs (2008). In collaboration with the nine federally recognized tribes of Oregon, she curated the exhibition The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon, which was named the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces Project for Oregon in 2008. 

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  • Lillian Pitt (1944-)

    Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs, Wasco, and Yakama) was born on the Warm Springs Reservation in 1944 and moved to Portland in the early 1960s after graduating from Madras High School. When back problems threatened her career as a hairdresser in the 1970s, she began taking art classes at Mount …

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