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SUMMARY:2026 | COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES TALK | The Art of Fire: Tribal Burni
 ng on the Northwest Landscape
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CATEGORIES:education,literary
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Community Perspectives Talk with Spokane-based a
 uthor Jack Nisbet\nThursday\, September 17\, 2026 \nThe Art of Fire: Triba
 l Burning on the Northwest Landscape\n4:00 – 5:00 pm\nJordan Schnitzer M
 useum of Art WSU \nJoin Spokane-based teacher and naturalist Jack Nisbet f
 or a presentation of fur trade era paintings that demonstrate how Plateau
  and Coastal peoples used intentional burning to manage the landscapes aro
 und them. With tribal oral accounts and early journal observations for con
 text\, we will explore details from these early artworks to shed light on 
 relevant landscapes from The Mirror that Nature Holds: From the Collection
 s of Jordan Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. \nCommunity Perspectives 
 Talks & Tours invite individuals from our campus and wider community to sp
 eak about their unique interpretation of several works in the current exhi
 bitions\, charting connections among art\, personal experience\, and diffe
 rent disciplines. \nAbout the Speaker | Spokane-based author Jack Nisbet
  has written several collections of essays that explore the human and natu
 ral history of the Columbia River drainage\, as well as award-winning biog
 raphies of cartographer David Thompson\, naturalist David Douglas\, and ho
 mesteader/forest surveyor/physician couple John and Carrie Leiberg. The Ma
 pmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau and David Douglas: 
 A Naturalist at Work are published by WSU Press. In 2018\, the Washington
  State Historical Society awarded Nisbet the Robert Gray medal for signifi
 cant and long-term contributions to Northwest history. For more informatio
 n visit www.jacknisbet.com \nImage Credit | James Madison Alden\, “Koo
 tenai Falls”\, 1860\, National Archives \nLocation & Parking\nThe Jordan
  Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Roa
 d across from Martin Stadium and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus. Hourl
 y parking is available in the Smith Center Garage off Stadium Way. For mo
 re information please see the museum’s Visit page.
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LOCATION:Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU\, 1535 NE Wilson RD\, Pullman\
 , WA\, 99164-7301\, United States
URL:https://museum.wsu.edu/event/2026-community-perspectives-talk-the-art-
 of-fire-tribal-burning-on-the-northwest-landscape/
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