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8 // COASTWEEKEND.COM SUBMITTED PHOTOS Left: Portrait of Contemporary Cultural Relevance by Linley Logan. Middle: Logan’s prints have traveled the world with him in many exhibits. Right: Midnight Fetis by Linley Logan. Washington artist opens ‘Indigenous Intrinsic Manifestations’ exhibit at Clatsop Community College By DAN HAAG FOR COAST WEEKEND he term “renaissance man” describes a person with many talents in a wide range of disci- plines. It’s an accurate term to describe Linley Logan, a Bremerton, Washington, multidisciplinary contem- porary artist whose work covers a broad spectrum: printmaking, carving, paint- ing, sculpting and more. Logan brings his work to a new exhibit at Clatsop Community College Royal Nebeker Art Gallery this spring. Titled “Indigenous Intrinsic Manifes- tations,” the show runs Thursday, April 13, through May 11 — with a workshop scheduled for Wednesday, May 10 — and gives North Coast art enthusiasts a chance to experience the depth of some truly original work. INTRINSIC MANIFESTATIONS The author of several articles published by the Smithsonian Institution, Logan grew up in the Logan has presented cultural Tonawanda Seneca Nation program presentations for the in New York, which is part Smithsonian Institution, au- of the Six Nations Iroquois thored articles on Haudenos- Confederacy. aunee social dance traditions, He is always moving, served as a grant reviewer for always creating. national and regional arts or- “The act of creativity ganizations, and founded and is more than visioning the directed a Cultural Retention creative,” Logan says. “It’s Program in his Tonawanda also being conscientious to Seneca community. follow through with your His interests and creations creative mind’s eye when also span a wide range of your creative interpreted vision is insightful.” Linley Logan fell into print- geography and cultures: he participated by invitation His artistic training making by happenstance. in International Indigenous resume includes attending Visual Artists’ Gatherings in Hawaii 2007, the Rochester Institute of Technology for and Rotorua, New Zealand in 2010. Industrial Design and Fine Art in Rochester, His upcoming show at CCC is a reflection N.Y., and the Institute of American Indian of his own Seneca heritage. Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. “I’ve done a number of shows throughout the years titled ‘Intrinsic Manifestations,’” Logan says. “Each show is drawn from a core of fundamental cultural values, specifically Seneca oral traditions.” Those traditions envelop a worldview concept of humans’ relationship with the natural world. He points out that the majority of cul- tures share the Seneca belief that nature is a life-giving force, something that led him to form a strong bond with the Hawaiian people and their culture. “People everywhere reference the wind, they reference the rain, they speak of the natu- ral world as a living thing,” Logan says. THE ‘HAPPENSTANCE’ OF PRINTMAKING A perfect example of the evolution of Logan’s work is his passion for printmak- Continued on Pg. 9 Linle as pr