CAMAS LOGUE
b. 1984
Enrolled member of the Klamath Tribes (ewksiknii, modokish, numu)
www.camaslogue.com // 📍Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 The Evergreen State College/House of Welcome, Native Creative Development Grant Award
Artist Trust GAP Award (Grants for Artists' Progress)
2022 Artist Trust Fellowship Award
2021 Running Strong Dreamstarter Creative grant
The Potlatch Resiliency Fund grant
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT: Early Career Support for Native Artists award
Career Pathway Fund, Port Townsend School of Woodworking, Port Townsend, WA
Fellowship, The Brown Folks Fishing Lab, USA
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2025 Invitational Artist in Residence, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR
2024 Sou’wester Artist Residency Program, Seaview, WA
2022 Jordan Schnitzer Printmaking Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2024 Five Oaks Museum, Portland, OR
30th Annual Sitka Art Invitational, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Lopez Island Library, Lopez Island, WA
2023 Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg, WA
Oki Language Project Peace Love Art Charity Art Auction, Online
Sitka Art Invitational, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Feeding The Unseen, The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
Replenish The Root, Five Oaks Museum, Portland, OR
Skagit County Historical Museum, La Conner, WA
2022 Imagine a World, High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
Daybreak Star Sacred Circle Gallery, Seattle, WA
Mt Analogue, en gallery, Seattle, WA
Lopez Island Library, Lopez Island, WA
2021 Pigments Revealed Symposium, online
2020 Covid-19 Infinite Open Call Series, Deep Space Gallery, online
Geeladat Doos Gis Gi, The Lux Art Center, La Conner, WA
2019 We Are Here, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2018 Beeswing, Portland, OR (solo)
2017 The Friendliest Group Show, True Measure Gallery, Portland, OR
Summer Showcase, Northwest Marine Iron Works, Portland, OR
View from Here, Erickson Gallery, Portland, OR
Ahab’s Mother, Optic Gallery, Corvallis, OR
2016 Triad Exhibition, True Measure Gallery, Portland, OR
Open House exhibition, North Coast Seed Building Studios, Portland, OR
2015 IN//APPROPRIATE, Littman White Gallery, Portland, OR
State of Oregon Craft, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Open House exhibition, North Coast Seed Building Studios, Portland, OR
2014 Open House exhibition, North Coast Seed Building Studios, Portland, OR
2013 Open House exhibition, North Coast Seed Building Studios, Portland, OR
SELECT PROJECTS
2022 La Conner Swinomish Library Story Pole, old growth cedar pole carved with Swinomish master carver Kevin Paul, permanent installation, La Conner, WA
2021 Migrating Salmon Poles, permanent installation, swǝdǝbš park, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, WA
Six cedar poles carved while working under master carver Kevin Paul. The poles serve as an entrance to swǝdǝbš park, at the site of the ancestral Swinomish village Txiwuc.
2020 STTLMNT: An Indigenous Digital World Wide Occupation, online and Plymouth, UK
A collaborative project centering contemporary Indigenous artists in the multinational celebration of the Mayflower’s colonial legacy.
ARTIST TALKS
2023 Replenish the Root, Five Oaks Museum, Portland, OR
2022 Resident Talk, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR
panel participant, “A Future that’s Indigenous” High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
2021 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT awardee, Portland, OR
2020 “Geeladat Doos Gis Gi,” The Lux Art Center, La Conner, WA
2017 “Cedar Weaving and Indigenous Craft,” Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (THRIVE conference), Portland State University, Native American Student and Community Center, Portland, OR
2015 panel participant, “State of Oregon Craft,” Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
FILM, TV, & LIVE RECORDINGS with Black Belt Eagle Scout
2023 KEXP Sessions, KEXP, Seattle, WA (full live performance)
WNYC, New York, NY (live in studio)
2020 STTLMNT + Red Brigade Films short documentary series, directed by Razelle Benally (film feature)
2020 Love and Fury, directed by Sterlin Harjo (film feature)
2019 “Paper Tiger,” Trinkets, Netflix, directed by Sara St. Onge, written by Linda Gase, season 1 episode 2 (feature)
New Sounds, WNYC, New York, NY (live in studio)
Black Belt Eagle Scout - Run It to Ya, directed by Evan James Benally Atwood (film feature)
Thing Fest, KEXP, Port Townsend, WA (full live performance)
“Loss & Relax,” Pickathon: Old Growth Sessions, Happy Valley, OR (live)
SXSW, Austin, TX (live)
OPB Music Sessions, NPR Music, Revolver Studios, Portland, OR (live)
2018 KEXP Sessions, KEXP, Seattle, WA (full live performance)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 artist advisory council for Sitka’s Residency Program
public art advisory committee, The Garfield Superblock, Seattle, WA
2022 panelist for Artist Trust (GAP) Grants for Artists’ Progress Awards
2021-2022 Port Townsend School of Woodworking career pathway program, Port Townsend, WA
2020–present apprentice, master carver Kevin Paul, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, WA
2018–present touring musician (drums/guitar), Black Belt Eagle Scout, USA
2016–present puller, singer, and drummer for tribal canoe journeys, Portland All Nations and Seven Waters Canoe Family, Portland, OR
2021 intern, 13 Moons, Swinomish Community Environmental Health Program, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, WA
2017 workshop instructor, cedar weaving, THRIVE, Portland State University Native Student Center, Portland, OR
2016 workshop instructor, Native American cedar & sweetgrass basketry, Native American Youth & Family Center, Portland, OR
2014–2015 research assistant and weaving instructor, Traditional Weaving, Research, and Education Project for the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon, Florence, OR
SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Inatai Foundation, Seattle, WA
ArtsWA State Art Collection, WA
Didgwalic Wellness Center, Anacortes, WA
Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA
Swadabs Park, Txiwuc, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, WA
La Conner Swinomish Library, La Conner, WA
Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2021-2022 Port Townsend School of Woodworking Career Pathway Program
2020-2021 Northwest Indian College, Native Environmental Science
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“A Future that’s Indigenous,” High Desert Museum, 03.31.22
“High Desert Museum to welcome 3 Indigenous artists of ‘Imagine a World’ exhibit, ktvz March 29, 2022
https://artisttrust.org/artists/camas-logue/
https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/camas-logue
https://indianyouth.org/meet-the-dreamstarter-creatives/
http://www.brokenboxespodcast.com/podcast/2021/7/11/black-belt-eagle-scout
https://wildpigmentproject.org/camas-logue
Camas Logue, sttlmnt.org, 2021 (feature)