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Organized by Tlingit artist and weaver Lily Hope, this upcoming exhibition in the Museum’s Center for Contemporary Native Art will celebrate the artistic achievements and vitality of Chilkat and Ravenstail weavers of the Northwest Coast—illuminating the philosophy and ways of life for women weavers.

Placing on view for the first time a traceable lineage of female Chilkat weaver-teachers in the collection of the Portland Art Museum, the exhibition will feature Clarissa Rizal’s Resilience Robe, completed in 2014, as well as Lily Hope’s Heritage Robe, completed earlier this year. The exhibition will also include a series of Ravenstail robes from Teri Rofkar of Sitka, Alaska, who was a scientist and historian, using all the ancient traditional materials in her masterful works. Finally, the exhibition will feature a robe called Weavers Across the Waters, a community-woven robe including work by more than 40 weavers from the Northwest Coast and into Canada, all of whom contributed an original weaving to the full-size robe.