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The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is a natural history museum in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. Established in 1899 as the Washington State Museum, it traces its origins to a high school naturalist club formed in 1879. The museum is the oldest natural history museum west of the Mississippi River and boasts a collection of more than 16 million artifacts, including the world's largest collection of spread bird wings. Located on the campus of the University of Washington, the Burke Museum is the official state museum of Washington.
The roots of the Burke Museum can be traced to a natural history club formed by high school students in the 19th century. The group was formed in December 1879 by students Edmond S. Meany, J. O. Young, P. Brooks Randolph, and Charles Denny. Denny's father, city founder Arthur Denny, was a regent of the Territorial University of Washington and arranged for the group to meet on campus. The Young Naturalists adopted a constitution and bylaws, and the official name Young Naturalists Society, in 1880. As the founding members graduated high school and matriculated to the university, the membership of the Young Naturalists expanded to include university students.
In 1882 Orson Bug Johnson was retained as a biology instructor at the University of Washington, bringing 20,000 animal specimens with him. Johnson immediately involved himself with the Young Naturalists, and the addition of his collection gave the club the largest natural history collection in the Pacific Northwest. Under Johnson's direction, the Young Naturalists began expanding this nucleus of specimens and artifacts, which were stored in a backroom of the Denny home. A permanent structure to house the growing collection was built on the Territorial University's campus in 1886, with the club soliciting donations to fund its construction. Many specimens in the collection were regularly borrowed by university faculty to assist in instruction.
In the 1890s Edmond Meany returned to teach history at the university. He led a revitalization of the group that he had helped found a decade before, bringing in new members, including women. By this point the society's collection had grown to include more than 60,000 specimens.
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The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is a natural history museum in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. Established in 1899 as the Washington State Museum, it traces its origins to a high school naturalist club formed in 1879
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TOP Best Museums in Seattle: Travel Guide State Washington
TOP Best Museums in Seattle: Travel Guide State Washington
Chihuly Garden and Glass, The Museum of Flight, EMP Museum, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Nordic Heritage Museum, Frye Art Museum, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Living Computer Museum
Searching for Concretions: Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway
Paleontologist Kirk Johnson and artist Ray Troll find fossils of marine animals inside concretions along the Olympic coast in Washington State. Johnson and Troll have teamed up with Seattle's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture to co-curate the exhibition Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway, on view from Dec. 19, 2009 to May 31, 2010. burkemuseum.org
Pike Place Market and Gum Wall - Seattle Washington 4K
Pike Place Market and Gum Wall - Seattle Washington 4K
Seattle is a city on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, is surrounded by water, mountains and evergreen forests, and contains thousands of acres of parkland. Washington State’s largest city, it’s home to a large tech industry, with Microsoft and Amazon headquartered in its metropolitan area. The futuristic Space Needle, a 1962 World’s Fair legacy, is its most iconic landmark.
Among Seattle's prominent annual fairs and festivals are the 24-day Seattle International Film Festival, Northwest Folklife over the Memorial Day weekend, numerous Seafair events throughout July and August (ranging from a Bon Odori celebration to the Seafair Cup hydroplane races), the Bite of Seattle, one of the largest Gay Pride festivals in the United States, and the art and music festival Bumbershoot, which programs music as well as other art and entertainment over the Labor Day weekend. All are typically attended by 100,000 people annually, as are the Seattle Hempfest and two separate Independence Day celebrations.
Other significant events include numerous Native American pow-wows, a Greek Festival hosted by St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Montlake, and numerous ethnic festivals (many associated with Festál at Seattle Center).
There are other annual events, ranging from the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair & Book Arts Show; an anime convention, Sakura-Con, Penny Arcade Expo, a gaming convention; a two-day, 9,000-rider Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic; and specialized film festivals, such as the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival, the Seattle Asian American Film Festival (formerly known as the Northwest Asian American Film Festival), Children's Film Festival Seattle, Translation: the Seattle Transgender Film Festival, the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Seattle Latino Film Festival, and the Seattle Polish Film Festival.
The Henry Art Gallery opened in 1927, the first public art museum in Washington. The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) opened in 1933; SAM opened a museum downtown in 1991 (expanded and reopened 2007); since 1991, the 1933 building has been SAM's Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM). SAM also operates the Olympic Sculpture Park (opened 2007) on the waterfront north of the downtown piers. The Frye Art Museum is a free museum on First Hill.
Regional history collections are at the Log House Museum in Alki, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, the Museum of History and Industry, and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Industry collections are at the Center for Wooden Boats and the adjacent Northwest Seaport, the Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum, and the Museum of Flight. Regional ethnic collections include the Nordic Heritage Museum, the Wing Luke Asian Museum, and the Northwest African American Museum. Seattle has artist-run galleries,[205] including ten-year veteran Soil Art Gallery, and the newer Crawl Space Gallery.
The Seattle Great Wheel, one of the largest Ferris wheels in the US, opened in June 2012 as a new, permanent attraction on the city's waterfront, at Pier 57, next to Downtown Seattle. The city also has many community centers for recreation, including Rainier Beach, Van Asselt, Rainier, and Jefferson south of the Ship Canal and Green Lake, Laurelhurst, Loyal Heights north of the Canal, and Meadowbrook.
Woodland Park Zoo opened as a private menagerie in 1889 but was sold to the city in 1899. The Seattle Aquarium has been open on the downtown waterfront since 1977 (undergoing a renovation in 2006). The Seattle Underground Tour is an exhibit of places that existed before the Great Fire.
Since the middle 1990s, Seattle has experienced significant growth in the cruise industry, especially as a departure point for Alaska cruises. In 2008, a record total of 886,039 cruise passengers passed through the city, surpassing the number for Vancouver, BC, the other major departure point for Alaska cruises.
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T. Rex-Like Fossil Is First Dino Found In Washington State
A Tyrannosaurus rex-like fossil has been found in Washington state, making it the 37th state in which a dinosaur bone was discovered.
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And remember, if something chases you, run, says a character in Jurassic World.
OK, so this story isn't that dramatic, but it does involve a T. rex-like bone. Researchers in Washington have discovered the state's very first dinosaur bone.
I'm holding Washington state's first dinosaur! Brandon Peecook told KING.
We mean, it only took 80 million years, but who's counting, right?
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is pleased as dino punch about the find from its paleontologists, although it's just one bone. And they actually aren't totally sure what type of dinosaur it is but know it's slightly smaller than T. rex.
But small to a T. rex isn't really ... small. The Seattle Times says: Still, think of a transit bus to imagine its size. Think of a carnivorous transit bus with bone-crunching teeth.
You may have noticed the bone is not in the best of shape. It was found in Washington's Sucia Island State Park, and the fact it was found at all is rare and lucky, according to the press release.
This is because during the time of the dinos, Washington state was mostly underwater.
The study's abstract comments on the find: The Washington theropod represents one of the northernmost occurrences of a Mesozoic dinosaur on the west coast of the United States and one of only a handful from the Pacific coast. ... Its isolated nature and preservation in marine rocks suggest that the element was washed in from a nearby fluvial system.
And it has been determined you're looking at a femur. Scientists were able to figure that out because of a hollow part of the bone that was unique to theropods like the T. rex and because of a particular feature they found on the surface part of the bone that was unique to theropods.
And now they’ve had a chance to study it extensively. Their findings were published in the journal PLOS ONE.
No word if they plan to use bones from the dino's DNA to bring up a real-life Jurassic Park. It doesn't matter how many movies they make against it, we'd still visit a park that had real-life dinosaurs in it.
Washington is now in the dino club. Yeah, we made that up, but it should totally be a thing. It's the 37th state where a dinosaur has been found. #DinoParty!
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10. Dakota - The Duck-Billed Dinosaur.
Dakota is the nickname given to a fossil of a Duck-Billed Dinosaur, scientifically called a Edmontosaurus Annectens, which lived at the very end of the Cretaceous Period. Dakota was first noticed by a then teenager named Tyler Lyson in 1999 on a ranch near the southwestern North Dakota town named Marmarth, which is also part of the Hell Crest Formation. Excavation for the fossil did not start until 2004 when Lyson was in college and teamed up with British Paleontologist Phillip Manning. Dakota has skin, bones, and tendons preserved in sediment. Scientists believe that Dakota was a plant eater, roamed the area of the United States about 65 million years ago, weighed around between three to four tons, measured at about 35 feet long, and could run about 28 miles per hour. Dakota is now housed at the North Dakota Heritage Center and States Museum in Bismarck, North Dakota.
9. Tyrannosaurus Rex
While several bones for the Tyrannosaurus Rex has been found in several areas around the United States of America, one of the most well-preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils was discovered in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. The skull weighed in about 2,500 pounds, lived about 66 million years ago, making its living toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, and died around the age of 15. The skull also had about 20 percent of its former body intact, and is about 85 percent as large as the biggest Tyrannosaurus Rex found previously. Tyrannosaurus Rex’s are known to be meat eaters, had razor sharp teeth, about 40 feet long, and stood up to 20 feet tall. The T-Rex skull was named Tufts-Love Rex after to two paleontologists to uncover the skull, Luke Tufts and Jason Love. Luke and Jason were volunteers at Seattle's Burke Museum and part of a University of Washington expedition. Tufts-Love Rex is going to be on view at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Washington, once it is all cleaned, preserved and ready for view, as Tufts-Love Rex was only found a little over a year ago.
8. Triceratops
Recently, in fact as recent as August of this year, a Triceratops was found on a construction site in the town of Thornton, Colorado. The Saunders Construction crew was digging for a new fire and police station when one of a geotechnical engineer on site noticed something inconsistent with the surrounding claystone and sand. After ordering the crew to stop, water was poured around the item, when is when they noticed it was a very unusual find. In response, they secured the area and notified the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Dinosaur curator Joe Sertich, who works for the Denver Museum, states the dinosaur is a Triceratops fossil, about 66 million years old and lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, and is believed to have been about the size of a rhino. So far, records so that a total of 12 Triceratops bones have been uncovered at this site. These bones include both brow horns, part of the skull that surrounds the brain, parts of the snout, parts of the frill, which is the shield behind its head, the lower jaw, parts of the neck, some vertebrae and ribs. The possible weight of this dinosaur has not been mentioned, but just one rib weighed in at 40 pounds!
7.) Dakotaraptor
Unlike other dinosaurs like to Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Dakotaraptor was first found in 2005 and finally given its name in 2015. The Dakotaraptor was found in South Dakota’s Hell Creek Formation and dated to the end of the Cretaceous period. The dinosaur was discovered by Robert DePalma and his team. Robert is the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History. This dinosaur is said to be about 18 feet long, wings stretched about 3 feet, and is explained to be like a giant crested bird-like dinosaur. The Dakotaraptor had long arms with one of the lower arm bones showing quill knobs, which paleontologists believe means this dinosaur had some feathers, however it is believed that these dinosaurs could not fly. Furthermore, the dinosaur had long rear legs with a very large sickle claw on the second toe, which is believed was used for protection against other dinosaurs and was measured at 9.5 inches. Dakotaraptors are believed to be able to run quickly and were carnivores.
In a crowded Seattle neighborhood, a plumbing contractor crew discovered the tusk of an ice age mamm
In the crowded south Lake Union neighborhood where Amazon.com workers go out for espresso, an ice age mammoth died 10,000 years ago and remained until Tuesday, when a plumbing contractor crew uncovered its tusk.
It's the latest example of the state fossil: the Columbian mammoth, Mammuthus columbi.
Monique German, who directors a early education center next door said, So our two-year-old children have all been looking through the window with a great deal of excitement starting to research the ice-age and enthusiastically follow what's happening outside.
Millennia before Seattle was founded, prehistoric animals wandered around what is now Lake Union and the lands covered by the university and the headquarters for online retailer Amazon.com.
Construction has been constant in recent years in the South Lake Union neighborhood, which also features biotech companies and apartments and condos for thousands of workers.
Similar tusks from the extinct relative of the elephant have been found in Washington, and a tooth from a mammoth even was found at a construction site at the university.
Paleontologists with the University of Washington hope to move the tusk to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in time for public viewing at its annual Dino Day on March 8.
The Burke Museum was waiting for approval from the property owner Wednesday to excavate the site and perhaps see if there are more buried bones.
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Awakening Memory: Sonny Assu
Open Space presents Awakening Memory, an exhibition featuring new artworks by Sonny Assu, lessLIE, and Marianne Nicolson. The exhibition is curated by France Trépanier.
Awakening Memory focuses on both customary and contemporary stories to explore the history, agency and value of an art object from Indigenous perspectives. The exhibition also considers the dynamic relationships between historical Indigenous cultural objects and contemporary Indigenous art practices.
Through the process of remembering, reclaiming and reactivating knowledge, memory-stories are awakened about how we–all of us here–inhabit this land.
Sonny Assu is a Ligwilda'xw Kwakwaka'wakw contemporary artist. He graduated from Emily Carr University (2002) and was the recipient of their distinguished alumni award in 2006. He received the BC Creative Achievement Award in First Nations art in 2011 and was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2012, 2013 and 2015. His work has been accepted into the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Burke Museum at the University of Washington, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Hydro Quebec, Lotto Quebec and in various other public and private collections across Canada, the United States and the UK.
Viking's Nordic Heritage Museum @ Seattle, WA. USA ( slide show tour )
Nordic community free open house museum one day. i was able to captured this photos with my Nikon D40 DSLR camera with Tamron 18-50mm f/2.8 VC lens. ( must visit and see , then learn their cultures and history )
Native Americans People of the Northwest Coast
While highlights from the Museum's collection of artifacts from the Pacific Northwest Coast are on display in the Hall of Northwest Coast Indians, more than .
Shot from many beautiful locations along the Washington and Oregon coast. Music: The Closed Book Of You by Wandering Poet © Cody Cha.
The 27th Annual Faculty Lecture coincides with the series, Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast Native American Art, sponsored by the Burke Museum at .
Ichthyosaur Fossil Installation - Jan. 2008
The Burke Museum installs a 125 million year old fish lizard fossil.
Traditional Native American Foods of Puget Sound
Stories from the ancestors and the archeological record agree: Native Coast Salish peoples had an incredibly diverse knowledge about the food plants and animals of this region. Visit our website for a list of traditional foods and more:
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Presidents, Politics, and National Crazes: Washington Culture, Media (1995)
Michael Kinsley (born March 9, 1951) is an American political journalist, commentator, television host, and pundit. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on Crossfire. Kinsley has been a notable participant in the mainstream media's development of online content.
Kinsley was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, then graduated from Harvard College in 1972. At Harvard, Kinsley served as vice president of the University's daily newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, then returned to Harvard for law school. While still a third-year law student, he began working at The New Republic and was allowed to finish his Harvard Juris Doctor degree via courses at the evening program at The George Washington University Law School.
Kinsley's first exposure to a national television audience was as moderator of William Buckley's Firing Line. In 1979 Kinsley became editor of The New Republic and wrote that magazine's TRB column for most of the 1980s and 1990s. That column was also reprinted in a variety of newspaper op-ed pages, including the Washington Post, and made Kinsley's reputation as a leading political commentator. Kinsley also served as editor at Harper's (for a year and a half in the early 1980s), managing editor of Washington Monthly (in the mid-1970s, while still in school), and American Editor of The Economist (a short-term, honorary position).
In 2002 Kinsley married Patty Stonesifer, previously married with adult children. Stonesifer is a frequent television commentator who was responsible for the former Microsoft news portion of the MSNBC merger (including Slate magazine, where Kinsley served as an editor.) Stonesifer served as chief executive officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for eleven years, and is now a senior advisor.[1]
In 2002 Kinsley announced that he had Parkinson's disease. He is an atheist.
In 1989, Kinsley agreed to take a position on CNN's Crossfire, co-hosting with conservative Pat Buchanan. Representing the liberal or left-wing position in the televised political debates, Kinsley combined a dry wit with nerdy demeanour and analytical skills.
Kinsley appeared in three movies during those years: Rising Sun (1993), Dave (1993), and The Birdcage (1996).
For a fateful weekend, he was considered for the position of editor-in-chief of The New Yorker.[3][4] The magazine was eventually handed to David Remnick.
In January 1995, Kinsley made a cameo appearance on the first episode of the Delta Burke CBS sitcom, Women of the House, titled Miss Sugarbaker Goes to Washington. In the episode, Suzanne Sugarbaker is a guest on the CNN political program, Crossfire. John Sununu also appears.
After leaving Crossfire in 1995, Kinsley returned to his editorial roots, relocating to Seattle and taking a position with Microsoft as the founding editor of its online journal Slate. In 1999 he was named Editor of the Year by the Columbia Journalism Review for his work at that magazine. Kinsley stepped down from Slate in 2002, shortly after disclosing that he had Parkinson's disease.
Surviving Disappearance, Re-Imagining & Humanizing Native Peoples: Matika Wilbur at TEDxSeattle
Matika Wilbur, one of the Pacific Northwest's leading photographers, has exhibited extensively in regional, national, and international venues such as the Seattle Art Museum, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, The Tacoma Art Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts in France. She studied photography at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana and received a bachelor's degree from Brooks Institute of Photography in California. Her work led her to becoming a certified teacher at Tulalip Heritage High School, providing inspiration for the youth of her own indigenous community.
Matika, a Native American woman of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes (Washington), is unique as an artist and social documentarian in Indian Country. The insight, depth, and passion with which she explores the contemporary Native identity and experience are communicated through the impeccable artistry of each of her silver gelating photographs.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Seattle, Washington | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:53 1 History
00:04:02 1.1 Founding
00:05:13 1.2 Duwamps 1852–1853
00:06:19 1.3 Incorporations
00:07:20 1.4 Timber town
00:09:05 1.5 Gold Rush, World War I, and the Great Depression
00:14:24 1.6 Post-war years: aircraft and software
00:19:06 2 Geography
00:20:07 2.1 Cityscape
00:20:16 2.2 Topography
00:24:40 2.3 Climate
00:37:50 3 Demographics
00:45:44 4 Economy
00:50:40 5 Culture
00:50:55 5.1 Nicknames
00:51:57 5.2 Performing arts
00:56:14 5.3 Tourism
01:00:07 6 Professional sports
01:06:33 7 Parks and recreation
01:08:12 8 Government and politics
01:13:25 9 Education
01:16:05 10 Media
01:19:07 11 Infrastructure
01:19:16 11.1 Health systems
01:21:05 11.2 Transportation
01:26:31 11.3 Utilities
01:27:23 12 Notable people
01:27:33 13 Sister cities
01:27:45 14 See also
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Seattle ( (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 744,955 residents as of 2018, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. According to U.S. Census data released in 2018, the Seattle metropolitan area's population stands at 3.94 million, and ranks as the 15th largest in the United States. In July 2013, it was the fastest-growing major city in the United States and remained in the top 5 in May 2015 with an annual growth rate of 2.1%. In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate. Seattle is the northernmost large city in the United States.
The city is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2015.The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named Seattle in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Today, Seattle has high populations of Native, Scandinavian, African, and Asian Americans, as well as a thriving LGBT community that ranks 6th in the United States for population.Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s onwards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a Seattleite by birth. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1994, and major airline Alaska Airlines is based in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle's international airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000. Owing largely to its rapidly increasing population in the 21st century, Seattle and the state of Washington have some of the highest minimum wages in the country, at $15 per hour for smaller businesses and $16 for the city's largest employers.Seattle has a noteworthy musical history. From 1918 to 1951, nearly two dozen jazz nightclubs existed al ...
Native American Artist Series: Andy Wilbur Peterson
Andy is a member of the Skokomish (Twana) Nation. He was born in Shelton, Washington in 1955. He has lived in the Skokomish community all of his life.
At the age of twelve, he became aware of his culture. It was then that he learned to make baskets and to gather basket materials with Skokomish elders Louisa Pulsifer and Emily Miller. After some experimentation in different mediums he became inspired to try carving after a tour he took at the Capital Museum in Olympia, Washington.
At the age of eighteen he taught himself how to carve, paint and make bentwood boxes. His early work was mostly in the Northern style because that was most available and visible in order to learn from. Andy has carved and created many different types of art such as bent wood boxes, drums, rattles, masks, paddles, speaker staffs, bowls and totem poles.
In 1987, Andy graduated from the Evergreen State College with a B.A. While attending Evergreen, he assisted Makah artist Greg Colfax in carving a 12' Woman Welcoming Figure for the campus. Through this experience he became inspired and started researching Salish style art. His research began in the archives of both the University and Capital Museums. Later visits to the University of British Columbia broadened Wilbur's knowledge. Another educational influence was the work of Andy's great grandfather, Henry Allen, an artist talented at both carving and storytelling. Allen was also the major informant of an ethnographic study of the Twana People.
Andy has contracted to do art work for many different organizations and private collectors. In 1987 he was nominated for the Heritage Award through the National Endowment for the Arts. Some of Wilbur's shows include the following :
2008 Seattle Art Museum Seattle, WA
1996 Burke Museum Seattle, WA
1994 King County Arts Commission Seattle, WA
1992 Capital Museum Olympia, WA
1992 Northwest Native Expressions Jamestown S'Kallam, WA
1991 Quintana Galleries Portland, OR
1990 Legacy Seattle, WA
1984 Evergreen State College Olympia, WA
1984 Portland Art Institute Portland, OR
1984 Snow Goose Seattle, WA
1984 WA State Art Commission Olympia, WA
1983 Skokomish Tribal Center Shelton, WA
In 1994 -95, Andy worked with Steve Brown on a 10' tall Salish style pole for King County Arts Commission in Seattle. Later in 1995, along with Greg Colfax, he completed a Westcoast style Thunderbird pole that is 9' tall with a wingspan of 16' that is installed at the Washington State Arts Commission in Olympia, WA.
Andy Wilbur continues to contribute to the revival of Salish art in many ways. Over the years he has taught carving, graphics and painting classes to people of all ages at many schools and to many Tribes. His goals are to continue carving and teaching and to learn all he can about his traditional life style and art forms.
Changing the way we see Native Americans | Matika Wilbur | TEDxTeachersCollege
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In 2013 Matika Wilbur took on a project of massive scope: to photograph members of each Federally recognized tribe in the United States. My dream, Wilbur says, is that our children are given images that are more useful, truthful, and beautiful.
Matika Wilbur—photographer, activist, writer, and educator—has undertaken Project 562, an endeavor of unprecedented impact and scope. Project 562 seeks to photograph every Federally recognized tribe in the United States and reveal in a brilliant spectrum of art, media, and curricula, the rich and complex twenty-first century image and reality of contemporary Native Americans. A simple, heartfelt idea informs Wilbur's work: By exposing the astonishing variety of the Indian presence and reality at this juncture, we will build cultural bridges, abandon stereotypes, and renew and inspire our national legacy. Wilbur embarked on Project 562 in 2013 with a meager first year budget funded by Kickstarter, driving over 60,000 miles to network throughout Native America and discover remarkable images and stories never shared before. In February 2014 Wilbur launched a second Kickstarter campaign to fund another Project 562 expedition, and after twenty days and a blitz of media coverage (including CNN and the New York Times) Project 562 surpassed its fundraising goal nearly four times over. As Wilbur sees it, The success and visibility of Project 562 show that people want and welcome change in how Native Americans are perceived. Wilbur is a graduate of the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, MT and the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. Her work has been shown at the Seattle Art Museum, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts.
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Milwaukee: A City Built on Water | Program |
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Historian John Gurda explores how the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan spurred Milwaukee's growth. The settlers used rivers and Lake Michigan to transport grain, lumber, leather and beer, but water was just as important for play as it was for work. Gurda explains how the Milwaukee River became a destination for fun. Learn how the lower Milwaukee River was eventually reduced to an open sewer by 1900, with Lake Michigan suffering similar indignities. Only in recent decades have the currents turned for the better. From the Milwaukee River Greenway to the reborn Menomonee Valley to the cultural theme park on our downtown lakefront, the patterns of the past are being reversed, providing cause for celebration as well as concern.
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500 Years of Human Dissection
Public Lecture with David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University, and Dominic Hall, Curator, Warren Anatomical Museum, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Throughout 500 years of human dissection, anatomists have struggled to maintain access to cadavers amid shifting laws and social mores. This lecture will chronicle the legal and ethical tensions involved in obtaining cadavers and how practices have changed over time. The speakers will discuss how acquisition arrangements once considered to be acceptable, even routine, became problematic and evolved into current donation systems and respectful dissection.
Presented in conjunction with Body of Knowledge: A History of Anatomy, an exhibition at Harvard University's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, one of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. It closed December 5, 2014.
Sponsored by the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Recorded September 16, 2014.