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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-
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Linle
as pr