Upcoming Exhibitions – 2024/2025
Blood, Sweat & Flannel
November 2, 2024 – June 15, 2025
Flannel is more than a fabric. Flannel shirts, jackets and undergarments have played an important role for laborers in the High Desert. Workers have donned flannel as they logged trees and roped cattle. Later, grunge counterculture adopted flannel as a nod to nonfashion. Blood, Sweat & Flannel explores the region’s labor history though the lens of the beloved fabric.
Frank S. Matsura: Portraits from the Borderland
February 15, 2025 – September 6, 2025
At the dawn of the 20thcentury, the Indigenous peoples of North America regularly faced narratives that they would soon disappear, be it from artists, academics or politicians. Yet Japanese immigrant and photographer Frank Matsura (1873-1913) approached his artistry differently. He arrived in the U.S. in 1901 and made Okanogan County, a rural expanse of High Desert in northern Washington state, his home. There, he grew strong relationships with the area’s tribal communities. The resulting body of work includes some of the most visually powerful and nuanced images of Indigenous people from the era: conceptually sophisticated and collaborative, revealing the Syilx (Okanogan) people effectively adapting to a changing time.
Photo by Frank Matsura
The High Desert Museum is always working on announcing additional exhibitions. Check back for updates! If you have questions, email info@highdesertmuseum.org.