Art and Place: Native Weaving and Mapping in the Pacific Northwest (taught by Susan Pavel and Zoltán Grossman in 2025-26) used art and geography as “common ground,” incorporating cross-cultural learning to explore relationships of Pacific Northwest Native peoples to place. These connections were expressed artistically and geographically through Native wool weaving and cartography (mapmaking), particularly in Coast Salish territory along the Salish Sea in Washington and British Columbia.

The program “wove together” Native art and place, based on the geographies and worldviews of Pacific Northwest Native nations, and developed student skills in wool weaving and cartography to express these worldviews. In fall and winter quarters, the class collaborated with the Coast Salish Wool Weaving Center and its Burke Museum exhibit "Woven in Wool: Resilience in Coast Salish Weaving."

In fall 2025, students developed multimedia podcasts on the “Woven in Wool” artists, and in winter 2026 students developed their own applied projects in either wool weaving on Coast Salish looms, or cartography in Adobe Illustrator (producing maps of the tribal communities of each Woven in Wool” exhibit artist). In spring 2026, the program directly engaged students with tribal communities, and reciprocated student learning with service.

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