“Sitting Skull” by Arlen Blue Thunder is on display as part of a printmaking project with Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts and Nixyaawii Community School through June 15 at Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington.

This untitled print by Teata Oatman is on display as part of a printmaking project with Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts and Nixyaawii Community School through June 15 at Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington.

“Eternal Love” by Ella Mae Looney is on display as part of a printmaking project with Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts and Nixyaawii Community School through June 15 at Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington.

Printmaking artwork by a number of students from Nixyaawii Community School are currently on display at Maryhill Museum of Art.

In February 2015, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts in Mission embarked on a collaborative project with Nixyaawii to introduce local students to printmaking. Over the past year a select group of art students has been learning printmaking in the Crow’s Shadow studio under the direction of Frank Janzen, Crow’s Shadow master printer.

The collaborative project is funded through a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission Arts Build Communities Fund.

Maryhill Museum invited prints from this program to be exhibited in the M.J.

“I am so excited to have the students at Crow’s Shadow learning about printmaking and working in a professional arts studio,” said Michelle Van Pelt, arts coordinator at Nixyaawii.

Renowned local painter James Lavadour founded Crow’s Shadow in 1992 to provide a creative conduit for educational, social and economic opportunities for American Indians through artistic development.

“This project helps to strengthen the relationship between Crow’s Shadow and Nixyaawii High School and extend our outreach to a new generation of artists from the local community,” Davis said.

Maryhill Museum of Art is open daily from 10 a.m.