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House of Welcome Cultural Arts Center vision: Indigenous arts and cultures are thriving and powerful, shaping a global nexus of artists and cultural guardians who reaffirm visual sovereignty. Our mission is to advance Indigenous arts and cultures.

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House of Welcome with logo incorporating graphic that says 30 years and the date October 25, 2025. Poster is first call for art work to commemorate the 30th anniversary.

House of Welcome with logo incorporating graphic that says 30 years and the date October 25, 2025. Poster is first call for art work to commemorate the 30th anniversary.

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Winter 2025 House of Welcome Newsletter Thanks for reading House of Welcome Newsletter!

Hey all we publish a quarterly newsletter about our work. If you would like to read it, we have established a Substack page COMPLETELY FREE for you to read our newsletter.

houseofwelcome.substack.com/p/winter-202...

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Poster with Coast Salish weaving in background. Picture of artist top left in Coast Salish Shawl. with information about talk also listed in the post.

Poster with Coast Salish weaving in background. Picture of artist top left in Coast Salish Shawl. with information about talk also listed in the post.

On February 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM House of Welcome at The Evergreen State College, come to see a talk on Coast Salish Wool Weaving with master artists Chief Janice George and Buddy Joseph. Light refreshments!

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Navajo alarmed by reports of Indigenous people caught up in Trump immigration raids Group takes steps to protect members after β€˜traumatizing’ reports of people being stopped or detained by agents

The Navajo nation is taking steps to protect its community from federal immigration actions, amid reports that some Indigenous Americans have been swept up in US deportation raids being carried out.

www.yahoo.com/news/navajo-...

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The House of Welcome sends out a quarterly e-newsletter . We also post opportunities for artists, events, grants from us and other organizations, etc. If you'd like to sign up send us a request at longhouse@evergreen.edu

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I will reach out to Rob Firing at Transatlantic. Let's do this!

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The college also has several Native focused programs and I think hosting you and you talking about your latest book and your work would be very interesting to students but also to the community members of the Tribes nearby.

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That would be amazing! We have events all the time. We should chat. We even have funds.

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Hawaiian artists singing

Hawaiian artists singing

Maori artists gathering to come into the Longhouse

Maori artists gathering to come into the Longhouse

Group of Indigenous artists who led workshops at the 2017 artist gathering. The late Jim Denomie, Denise Wallace, Dempsey Bob, Yvonne Peterson, Nora Naranjo, back row Larry McNeil, Dan Friday, Marwin Begaye and Trudy Marcellay

Group of Indigenous artists who led workshops at the 2017 artist gathering. The late Jim Denomie, Denise Wallace, Dempsey Bob, Yvonne Peterson, Nora Naranjo, back row Larry McNeil, Dan Friday, Marwin Begaye and Trudy Marcellay

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Procession of Indigenous people coming into the Longhouse. Singers welcoming them with drums

Procession of Indigenous people coming into the Longhouse. Singers welcoming them with drums

Git Hoan Tsimshian dance group opening carved mask. Dancer blowing eagle feathers.

Git Hoan Tsimshian dance group opening carved mask. Dancer blowing eagle feathers.

Senior artist Pete Peterson, Skokomish and younger artist Tierra McCarty, Makah making a small bentwood box together. Bending a flat piece of cedar.

Senior artist Pete Peterson, Skokomish and younger artist Tierra McCarty, Makah making a small bentwood box together. Bending a flat piece of cedar.

Maori delegation speaking at opening of Indigenous arts gathering

Maori delegation speaking at opening of Indigenous arts gathering

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People working with round thin drum frames which are Alutiiq style.

People working with round thin drum frames which are Alutiiq style.

Glass artist heating up glass in small glass oven. Artist sitting waiting to shape vessel.

Glass artist heating up glass in small glass oven. Artist sitting waiting to shape vessel.

a dozen people standing with finished bentwood box drums which they use in celebrations and dance with their Northwest dance groups.

a dozen people standing with finished bentwood box drums which they use in celebrations and dance with their Northwest dance groups.

Ed NoiseCat, a first nations artist explains the symbols on a story pole in progress. Story pole is a 7 ft tall red cedar log with carved salmon, otter, orca

Ed NoiseCat, a first nations artist explains the symbols on a story pole in progress. Story pole is a 7 ft tall red cedar log with carved salmon, otter, orca

We will have a big event for our 30th anniversary on 10/25/25 in the House of Welcome Longhouse. Here are some images from our past events which include international artist gatherings, art workshops, celebrations.

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art gallery with low table with bronze salmon, Salish wool cloak, cedar mat on wall and distant images of art hanging on wall.

art gallery with low table with bronze salmon, Salish wool cloak, cedar mat on wall and distant images of art hanging on wall.

We also manage the college art gallery and each fall quarter we host an Indigenous art show. The show currently up is Art of Salish Peoples

09.01.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much! We are in Olympia, Washington, US at the South end of the Salish Sea on Squaxin Island Tribe territory. We are so lucky to work in this amazing space.

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Upward view of log post and beams with flags of many Native American nations on display near cedar board ceiling.

Upward view of log post and beams with flags of many Native American nations on display near cedar board ceiling.

Our Longhouse was the first of its kind built on a US College campus and opened its doors September, 1995. @daanis.ca may we be added to Indigiskeet? Gunalcheesh!

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s'gΚ·i gΚ·i Κ” altxΚ·: House of Welcome

www.evergreen.edu/houseofwelcome Our home website. Email: Longhouse@evergreen.edu

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Two individuals sitting on the floor of a Longhouse with carving tools, discussing projects.

Two individuals sitting on the floor of a Longhouse with carving tools, discussing projects.

Annually we offer individual artist grants to Native American artists living in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Grants are up to $5,000 for individual artists and up to $10,000 for mentorship/apprentice work. We also support artist workshops in community for the same states.

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3 Indigenous men standing in front of sculpture with pictorial language and a metal canoe with metal sculpted paddlers

3 Indigenous men standing in front of sculpture with pictorial language and a metal canoe with metal sculpted paddlers

We work with colleges and universities in our SIAM program which means honored elder and for our purposes also means Supporting Indigenous Arts Mastery. We work in the upper Midwest, West, Northwest, Alaska and Southwest and British Columbia to support Indigenous visual arts work.

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We also have the carving studio complex Pay3q'ali-a place to carve. Both studios are also home to 3-D visual arts classes taught at our small college. Courses include Salish, Northern carving, in the fiber studio, which include fiber weaving as well as basketry.

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We offer arts workshops on our Indigenous Arts Campus, which includes Paimārire, our fiber arts studio. Designed with Pacific Northwest Native artists and Lyonel Grant, Ngāti Pikiao and Te Arawa.

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Greetings! We are the House of Welcome at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. For 30 years we have supported Native arts and cultures. We honor Indigenous worldviews and cultural arts of each artist, their Tribe, 1st Nations.

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