September / October 2025
Button Exhibit | Katie Paaso
www.oregonbuttonsociety.org

Our current exhibit is a collection of button quilts from Katie Paaso from Seaside. She described her button collection for us: "In 2000 I inherited my Aunt Helen’s antique button collection. The buttons were sewn into fabric books and had been in storage for many years. Many of the buttons had started to deteriorate and rust. I immediately cut the buttons out of the book pages and put them in piles by kind: glass, pearl, Czech glass, metal, carved celluloid, etc. I  really wasn’t interested in antique buttons before that. They all looked like little works of art. I didn’t want to put them in a jar or box and never see them again, so, since I am a quilter, I married the button collection with my quilting and began to make wall hanging button quilts.

November 4th / December 2025
What Remains, What Resists | Stephanie Craig
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https://www.kalapuyaweaving.com
(Amanda Freeman, Ampkwa Images 2025)

Open House is November 8th, 2025 (12:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
 

This exhibition brings together woven belongings, regalia, beadwork, and portraits that embody survival, beauty, and defiance. Each belonging holds the presence of ancestors and the strength of community, created for family and friends as living expressions of kinship. These are not ornaments but continuations—belongings that dance, regalia that prays, weavings that stand against forgetting. “What Remains, What Resists” affirms that Indigenous culture does not fade; it endures. The old ones chose this work to be carried forward, giving power not for ego, but for responsibility. Here, the resilience of tradition lives on—unbroken, unyielding, and alive.