Wendy Red Star Wins the Betty Bowen Award

by Jen GravesWendy Red Star's new photography is about generational inheritances and adaptations, specifically matrilineal relationships in Crow culture. Images courtesy of the artist
Portland-based artist Wendy Red Star is the winner of this year's Betty Bowen Award, which recognizes Northwest artists. The award is administered by Seattle Art Museum and carries a prize of $15,000. You may remember Red Star from 2014's Bumbershoot, where she curated the festival’s first all-Native contempo