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Outline of Need:
James Lavadour, a renowned tribal artist, founded Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in 1992 on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. His dream was to bring together students, teachers and professional artists on the Umatilla Indian Reservation to share, learn and create. The institute is located on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, near Pendleton, Oregon in the historic Saint Andrew's Mission schoolhouse. The mission is about two miles south of the main residential community of the reservation, at the foot of the Blue Mountains on Mission Creek.
How Rural Development Helped:
Since Fiscal Year 1996, The Rural Business and Cooperative Service of USDA Rural Development has awarded four Rural Business Enterprise Grants to Crow Shadow, Inc for a total of $230,000. Some of the funds have been used to remodel several rooms in the schoolhouse for use by artists and students. In Fiscal Years 1999 and 2001, grant money purchased state-of-the art and specialized machinery and equipment for Crow's Shadow, Inc.
The Results:
Crow's Shadow operates the only reservation-based print studio in the Pacific Northwest. The print making studio contains one lithographic printing press, two etching presses, workspace, art materials and a matting/framing laboratory. A complete darkroom is available for photographers as well as for artists who need darkroom equipment for printmaking techniques. The Institute provides a cutting edge art-based computer networks, equipped with three computers and the latest versions of several graphics programs. Workshops and private instruction are available on an ongoing basis. Workshops in the computer lab help artists design and produce marketing materials such as logos, business cards, resumes and business stationary. Artists can also access the Internet and email and scan in artwork.
(July 2002)
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