Sutter County Museum Past Exhibits - 2008
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Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home
The Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County is presenting a new traveling exhibit featuring California
Native American art and poetry. Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home opens with a reception on Friday,
September 26, 2008 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. The opening program features The Feather River Singers,
a Native American women’s drum group performing traditional songs with a large drum. It is a rare
opportunity to see this talented local group perform, and it is their first performance at the museum.
The exhibit Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home is an extraordinary exhibit in which California Native
stories, songs and dance take form in poetry, painting, basketry, jewelry, printmaking, photography and
sculpture. Themes of family history, identity, self-acceptance, cultural traditions, racism, and
socioeconomics are explored.
The exhibit is organized by the California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA) and was developed in
concert with Heyday Books. CERA is a network of professionally operated museums and cultural organizations
that collaborate to create and tour smaller, affordable, high quality exhibitions that enhance civic
engagement and human understanding. The exhibit is made possible by generous grants for The James Irvine
Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Columbia Foundation, LEF Foundation, the Fleishhacker
Foundation, The Clorox Company Foundation, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Sing Me Your Story will remain at the Community Memorial Museum through November 16, 2008. The Museum is
located at 1333 Butte House Road in Yuba City. Open hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information,
call 822-7141.
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Aurelius O. Carpenter - Photographer of the Mendocino Frontier
The first comprehensive exhibit to introduce the photographic work of Aurelius O. Carpenter,
who documented the development of Northern California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
is on display at the Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County. The exhibit 'Aurelius O. Carpenter:
Photographer of the Mendocino Frontier' is open now and will remain at the museum through June 29, 2008.
Aurelius Ormando Carpenter (1836-1919), considered one of the most talented early photographers in
Northern California, operated a successful portrait studio and itinerant photography business in Ukiah
for 40 years. He traveled throughout the rural and rocky North Coast of California, hauling his cameras
and supplies in a horse-drawn wagon and working out of a tent studio while his wife Helen managed their
home gallery business.
Carpenter's large panoramic views chronicle the coastal logging, tanbark, and shipping industries, as well
as the inland region's bounty of natural attractions and agricultural products. The images immortalize the
ruggedness of the sea cliffs, the redwood forests, and the immense efforts of the lumber and railroad
shipping industries. He also produced an important body of photographs depicting Pomo Indians, as
well as portraits of family and community members. The photographs were printed from recently
rediscovered glass plate negatives.
The traveling exhibit is organized into three main themes of family and commercial portraits,
itinerant outdoor scenes, and Native American photos, and it is accompanied by an introductory
DVD of Carpenter's life and work.
The 'Aurelius O. Carpenter: Photographer of the Mendocino Frontier' exhibit tour was organized
by the Grace Hudson Museum and the California Exhibition Resources Alliance. CERA is a network
of professionally operated museums and cultural organizations that collaborate to create and
tour smaller, affordable, high quality
exhibitions that enhance civic engagement and human understanding. CERA is supported by generous
grants from The James Irvine Foundation and The William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
The Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County is located at 1333 Butte House Road in Yuba City.
Open hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from
noon to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call the Museum at 822.7141.
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