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Special Exhibitions
in the Changing Gallery
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When We Were Young: Childhood Around the Valley
Friday, January 18 – Saturday, March 16, 2013.
What do you know about the lives of children who lived in the Willamette Valley in the past? What kinds of games did they play or chores did they have to do? How did their lives and pastimes compare to yours? What did it even mean to be a “child”?
When We Were Young is the Center’s third annual Heritage Invitational, and explores a range of ideas about “childhood,” from planting trees after the Tillamook Burn to the role of children in the history of the Good Samaritan School of Nursing; from toys, dolls and games from a by-gone era to the lives of Albany teenagers from the late 1800s thru the 1940s.
Photo courtesy of Silverton County Historical Society
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Photo courtesy of the Forest History Center
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Working Title: Grand Ronde: Termination and Restoration – 1954-1983
Friday, April 12 – Monday, May 27, 2013
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In 1954, one hundred years after the Indians of western Oregon were removed to the Grand Ronde Reservation; the United States implemented its termination policy. The permanent Grand Ronde Reservation, settled in 1855 and established by presidential executive order in 1857, was terminated by Congress, the seven ratified treaties were nullified and the tribal people lost their Federal recognition. In western Oregon, native people appeared to cease to exist. |
For 29 years Grand Ronde’s tribal cultures, languages, and community were severely fractured and much was lost. During the post-termination era, despite all of the problems the tribal members faced, they found ways to survive and worked to restore the tribe. In 1983, the Grand Ronde Tribe was restored. This exhibit, curated by the Cultural Resource Department of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, explores the history and impact of termination and restoration on the tribe. |
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Several Grand Ronde Tribal Members 1954 |
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Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
Friday, June 21 – Friday, July 26, 2013
The Center is thrilled to host Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War, a nationally traveling exhibition which focuses on Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to meet the constitutional challenges of the Civil War. This exhibit is brought to us by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Constitution Center and the American Library Association.
Using the Constitution as the cohesive thread, this exhibition offers a fresh and innovative perspective on Lincoln that focuses on his struggle to meet political and constitutional challenges. Organized thematically, the exhibition explores how Lincoln used the Constitution to confront three intertwined crises of the war - the secession of Southern states, slavery, and wartime civil liberties. Visitors will leave the exhibition with a more complete understanding of Abraham Lincoln as president and the Civil War as the nation’s gravest constitutional crisis. In addition, the Center will add a section featuring aspects of the Civil War years in western Oregon. |
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Threads to New Worlds: A Collection of Fiber Arts
Friday, September 27 – Tuesday, December 24, 2013
The Willamette Heritage Center at The Mill is thrilled to host the Weaving Guilds of Oregon, Inc. (WeGO)’s traveling exhibition, Threads to New Worlds: A Collection of Fiber Arts. The description for this traveling exhibition reads “Threads are part of who we are, and what we create. Threads of thought lead to new ideas and new visions of things for our environments, our bodies and our decorations. New technology enhances our threads and opens new fiber horizons.” This is a juried show of work including two and three dimensional pieces of weaving, spinning, felting and basketmaking.
WeGO is a statewide organization of weaving, spinning and fiber-related guilds, including the Salem Fiberarts Guild which calls the WHC home, that encourages education, cooperation and communication. |
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