News Archive
December 8, 2009
What's been going on at Confluence
New Website! With the earlier launching of Journey Book, Confluence Project decided to update its look and provide a new interface to keep up to date. Check us out now... more >
December 5, 2009
Celilo Park, Near The Dalles, Oregon
Maya Lin's arched walkway at Celilo Park will memorialize the loss of Celilo Falls, one of North America's largest waterfalls which offered life-sustaining salmon and served as a gathering place... more >
October 1, 2009
The story continues at Sacajawea State Park
With her latest Confluence Project artwork, Maya Lin will tell the complex story of what is now Sacajawea State Park, at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers. Seven... more >
August 1, 2008
Number 3 … A dedication of the third completed Confluence Project site, the bird blind at the Sandy River Delta
Take a family-friendly one-mile walk to the completed elliptical bird blind on the quiet, reflective Sandy River Delta. This new sanctuary - rising among the trees at the water’s edge... more >
Celilo Park artwork revealed
May 1, 2007
Maya Lin has completed a model of the artwork for Celilo Park, near The Dalles, Oregon. The work will take the shape of a simple wooden arc inspired by the iconic fishing platforms where Indians, using lines, spears and long-poled dip nets, risked their lives to catch salmon in the turbulent water of the falls. Celilo Falls was an important gathering place for Northwest Native Americans for 10,000 years before its inundation in 1957 by The Dalles Dam.
The model shows a gentle ramp that, when completed, will span 300 feet and take the viewer from land to a point cantilevered over the water. Text set in the ramp will chronicle the history of the falls, from a geologic description of its formation, to accounts of its existence in both mythic and oral histories of the tribes who inhabited the area, to Lewis and Clark’s accounts, to the poignant testimonies of the tribes who protested the dam. The final text, at water’s edge, will describe the lost sound of the falls.
Construction of the site is targeted to begin in 2010.
