Confluence Project

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The Confluence Project is a series of outdoor installations and interpretive artworks located in public parks along the Columbia River and its tributaries in the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. Each art installation explores the confluence of history, culture and ecology of the Columbia River system.{{cite news |last1=Cipolle |first1=Alex V. |title=Along the Columbia River, Making a Monument of the Land |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/arts/maya-lin-tribal-monuments-pacific-northwest.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage |access-date=22 May 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=May 20, 2021}} The project draws on the region's history, including Native American traditional stories and entries from the Lewis and Clark Expedition journals, to "evoke a landscape and a way of life submerged in time and memory."{{cite news

|title=The Shape of Memory

|first=Camela

|last=Raymond

|work=Portland Monthly

|date=November 2007

}} The project reaches from the mouth of the Columbia River to Hells Canyon.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pdxcityclub.org/calendar_day.asp?date=11%2F21%2F2014&event=209 |title=Event Calendar |access-date=2014-11-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141124224428/http://www.pdxcityclub.org/calendar_day.asp?date=11%2F21%2F2014&event=209 |archive-date=2014-11-24 |url-status=dead }}

Artist Maya Lin designed installations that followed the path of Lewis and Clark through the Columbia River Basin. Lin collaborated with landscape architects, such as Johnpaul Jones, to produce earthen works that helped restore natural environments. Each artwork was based on traditions grounded in Native American cultures and drew text from Lewis and Clark's journals.

Confluence is a community supported nonprofit 501(C)(3) based in Vancouver, Washington, incorporated in 2002. The mission is to connect people to the history, living cultures, and ecology of the Columbia River system through Indigenous voices.

Sites

=Washington=

Cape Disappointment State Park, Ilwaco, Washington{{Cite web |url=http://www.parks.wa.gov/parks/?selectedpark=Cape%20Disappointment&subject=all |title=Cape Disappointment State Park |access-date=2010-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206125721/http://www.parks.wa.gov/parks/?selectedpark=Cape%20Disappointment&subject=all |archive-date=2010-12-06 |url-status=dead }} (completed 2005, dedicated 2006)
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Vancouver, Washington (in planning stages)
Vancouver Land Bridge at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver, Washington[https://www.nps.gov/fova/index.htm Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)] (completed in 2008)
Sacajawea State Park, Pasco, Washington[http://www.parks.wa.gov/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Sacajawea Sacajawea State Park] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907073133/http://www.parks.wa.gov/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Sacajawea |date=2006-09-07 }} (completed in 2010)
Chief Timothy Park, Clarkston, Washington[https://archive.today/20091009142703/http://www.confluenceproject.org/project_sites/?PHPSESSID=ce4b4a8a48403db5ef8bd94adf56a975 Confluence Project: project sites] (scheduled for completion in Spring 2015)

=Oregon=

File:MAYA LIN BIRD BLIND AT SANDY DELTA-COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE (24757922619).jpg

Sandy River Delta Bird Blind[https://archive.today/20091009142814/http://www.confluenceproject.org/project_sites/sandy_river_delta/?PHPSESSID=ce4b4a8a48403db5ef8bd94adf56a975 Confluence Project: project sites: Sandy River Delta] (completed in 2008)
Celilo Falls (scheduled for completion in 2016){{cite news | first = Colin | last = Fogarty | title = Art Installation Will Recall Silenced Celilo Falls

| url = http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/03/art_installation_will_recall_s.html | publisher = The Oregonian | date = March 14, 2014 | accessdate = 2014-03-14 }}

References

External links

[http://www.confluenceproject.org Confluence Project]
{{cite news|title=A Meeting Of Minds|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw06122005/coverstory.html|publisher=The Seattle Times|date=2005-06-12|accessdate=2006-09-07|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507145453/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw06122005/coverstory.html|archive-date=2006-05-07}}
{{cite news | title = Maya Lin advances Confluence Project | url = http://www.oregonlive.com/special/lewisandclark/index.ssf?/special/oregonian/lewisandclark/040104.html | publisher = The Oregonian | date = 2004-04-01 | accessdate = 2006-09-07 }}

Category:Outdoor sculptures in Washington (state)

Category:Outdoor sculptures in Oregon

Category:Columbia River Gorge