Quilt exhibit explores Japanese American internment camps
Cathy Erickson opens ‘What Remains’ at Cannon Beach History Center & Museum
CANNON BEACH — Join the
Cannon Beach History Center
& Museum and textile artist
Cathy Erickson at 6 p.m. Sat-
urday, Oct. 24 for an opening
reception and presentation of
her solo textile show, “What
Remains: Japanese Americans
in Internment Camps.”
For over a decade, Erick-
son has focused her artwork
on the hardships that Japa-
nese Americans faced when
they were interned in camps
during World War II. Much of
the work was done in collab-
oration with Margaret Chula,
an internationally known hai-
ku poet. Photographs, letters
and historical documents were
used as background informa-
tion, as well as visiting with
people who took part in this
piece of American history.
The series includes volunteer
work at archaeology digs at the
Manzanar National Historic Site,
which is located in California, as
well as work at a local Japanese
American Museum.
Submitted photo
“Dragonfly Moon” by Cathy Erickson.
“What Remains: Japanese
Americans in Internment
Camps” has shown at the Jap-
anese Gardens in Portland and
other areas across the nation.
Quilts from the show have
also been displayed in Brazil
where the artist won a view-
er’s choice award. The nearly
20-piece exhibit will explore
the stories, experiences and
history behind Japanese in-
ternment camps in America
during World War II through
textile art.
The exhibit is part of a se-
ries of events relating to the
Cannon Beach History Center
& Museum’s “WWII on the
Oregon Coast” exhibit, on dis-
play through February 2016.
The exhibit was made possible
in part by a grant from Ore-
gon Humanities, a statewide
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National Endowment for the
Humanities.
The textile exhibit is made
possible through Center Dia-
mond, where, coincidentally,
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piece of fabric in Cannon
Beach. Center Diamond’s
fabrics highlight contempo-
rary batiks, Asian, landscape,
beach and modern designs and
sewing notions. It also exclu-
sively sells a custom-made
Haystack Rock batik and Tuft-
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Cannon Beach History
Center & Museum is locat-
ed at 1387 S. Spruce St. For
more information, visit www.
cbhistory.org, or call 503-
436-9301.
Submitted photo
Right: “Bunny Dreams” by Cathy Erickson.
See art by Astoria Column restoration crew
Celebrate the project’s completion, view historic photographs
ASTORIA — The renovation
of the historic Astoria Column
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reopened to the public Oct. 10.
To celebrate the four months
of hard work by a dedicated
and skilled crew, Imogen Gal-
lery will host an exhibition
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Friends of the Astoria Column.
Attend this special evening
from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
24 at Imogen’s pop-up gallery
space located in the Carruthers
Building, at 1198 Commercial
St. All are invited to attend the
event and enjoy an evening of
celebration with the Column’s
restoration crew. The exhibition
will be available for viewing
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday
through Sunday. The exhibit
will close Nov. 14 during the
Second Saturday Art Walk.
For several months, vis-
itors and locals alike have
looked up to Coxcomb Hill,
to view the Astoria Column,
blanketed in its white shroud.
At long last, the monument
has been unveiled and scaf-
folding taken down, to reveal
the freshly restored tower.
The Astoria Column, erect-
ed in 1926, is considered the
“crowning monument” of 12
historical markers that com-
memorate the move west by
Great Northern Railroad, be-
ginning in Minnesota. Being
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it celebrated the early settlers
of Astoria and their role in ex-
panding the United States to
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on the monument is the pic-
torial narration of events that
transpired in the American set-
tlement of the area, beginning
with the Lewis and Clark Ex-
pedition and culminating with
the arrival of the railroad.
The Column has undergone
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recent was in 1995. Several
of the 1995 crew members
returned to participate in this
summer’s renovation, includ-
ing native Astorian Aretta
Christie. Christie, who serves
as documentation manager to
the project, felt that the com-
munity should get the chance
to get to know the individuals
who have worked diligently
through summer heat, early
fall storms and even vandal-
ism to complete the formi-
dable task of repainting the
entire structure in the original
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Italian technique.
The crew members are all
professional artists and have
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The Astoria Column restoration was completed by a group of talented crew members. Imogen Gallery will present an exhibition of their
art and other work Oct. 24 in the Carruthers Building in downtown Astoria.
come from as far away as Vir-
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tions with the Seattle Opera,
as scenic artists.
The Oct. 24 event will be a
threefold exhibition and fund-
raising event. Included in this
exhibit will be the paintings,
photographs and sculpture of 14
crew members, giving a glimpse
of their personal work as artists.
There will also be work
presented by Astoria High
School art students, who have
been asked to recreate the full
mural’s imagery in individu-
al segments that will be hung
side by side.
The third component to the
exhibition will be an interpre-
tive display of historic photo-
graphs collected over the years
by John Goodenberger, a local
historian and preservationist
who assisted with both the
1995 restoration and the cur-
rent project.
For more information, call
503-468-0620 or visit www.
imogengallery.com
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