Columbia Gorge Museum

16/10/2026

🍄 Join us tomorrow at the Columbia Gorge Museum for the Stevenson Mushroom Festival!

Make the museum one of your festival stops for presentations, family activities, and a little fungi-inspired fun!

🎤 IN THE MUSEUM THEATER

11 AM–Noon | Foraging Safety in the Pacific Northwest
Join Jesse Nienow-Macke and Dani Osborne of Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue for wilderness safety tips and advice on what to do if your outdoor adventure takes an unexpected turn.

2–3 PM | Spooky, Freaky, Fungi of the Columbia River Gorge
Explore the stranger side of fungi with presenter Rachel Zoller!

🎨 FAMILY FUN
Enjoy face painting, photo ops, and mushroom themed tattoos for kids while you’re here!

🎟️ Festival Passport holders receive FREE museum admission. Get your passport stamped and take some time to explore our exhibits!

📍 Columbia Gorge Museum
990 SW Rock Creek Drive, Stevenson
🍄 Saturday, October 17

Grab your favorite woodland or mushroom-inspired outfit and make a day of it! Find the full festival schedule and passport information at:
https://www.stevensonmushroomfestival.com/

Get your Passport & join the "hunt" - 18 Passport locations throughout Stevenson, WA! Collect stamps and create your own schedule with promotions, presentations, crafts, culinary specials, the Forager Marketplace Vendor Fair, live music and more! See all the happenings and reserve your Passport today! StevensonMushroomFestival.com.

$10 advance pricing ends at midnight. $12 at the door (while supplies last). Pick up Passports at Traverse PNW Market starting at 9am, Oct 17. 240 1st Street, Stevenson, WA.

18/09/2026

Such an amazing interview with Maggie Hensel-Brown about Lacing Communities Together!

17/09/2026

16/09/2026

Sign Up Now! 🧶

Woven Geometries: Beginning Weaving with Kristie Strasen is an amazing opportunity to create a full woven piece with the guidance of award-winning colorist, weaver and textile designer Kristie Strasen.

This is a 3 day workshop:
Friday, October 16 at 6pm-8pm
Saturday, October 17 at 10am-4pm
Sunday, October 18 at 10am-4pm

Registration Fee (Includes Supplies):
Museum Members - $170
Non-Members - $190

We only have 4 spots left for this workshop, so sign up while you still can!

This three day workshop teaches students basic tapestry-weaving techniques while exploring color, texture, and basic geometries. They will come in for a short Friday night planning session and will complete their pieces during the Saturday and Sunday workshop sessions. Don’t miss your chance to learn from this talented artist and go home with a geometrical masterpiece.

Visit our website to register and find more information on the workshop!

15/09/2026

Honor the veteran in your life with a Memorial Brick in the Columbia Gorge Museum’s Never Forget Garden.

Occasioned by the Centennial of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a Never Forget Garden is intended to be a place to remember, to honor, and to teach.

Veterans Day is approaching, order a brick for your loved one now to show your appreciation and memorialize them amongst the beautiful scenery of the Columbia River Gorge.

To order a memorial brick, visit the Never Forget Garden page of our website!

11/09/2026

Meet the artist behind the Lacing Communities Together project: Maggie Hensel-Brown

Maggie Hensel-Brown is a contemporary lace artist from Melbourne, Australia. Hensel-Brown’s works respond to a long history of storytelling in needle lace. While most historical lace pieces tell grand biblical tales or stories about royal lore, her works respond to illustrates quiet moments of frustration, boredom, bliss, and daily life.

If you couldn’t make it to the opening, don’t miss your chance to talk to Maggie and see the final installation in person!

Saturday, Sept 12
10am - 2pm

Visit our website for more information.

11/09/2026

At last… ⌛️♥️
…the final art installation for Lacing Communities Together with Maggie Hensel-Brown is complete!

A Sense of Place
Maggie Hensel-Brown
2026

Lacing Communities Together is a community lace project with Australian contemporary lace artist Maggie Hensel-Brown.

Hensel-Brown made a series of 5 instructional videos and other lacemaking resources viewed through YouTube and the CGM website. 475 lace kits were handed out from the Museum and partner locations to encourage participation. Lacemakers from 11 countries and 19 states sent triangles to the Columbia Gorge Museum. Hensel-Brown, volunteers, and Museum staff sewed over 550 pieces Together into the final art installation you see today. A Sense of Place will become a part of the Museum’s permanent collection and travel to partner locations following the exhibitions end in January 2027.

Join us for a meet n greet with the artist tomorrow from 10am to 2pm at the Columbia Gorge Museum in Stevenson, WA!

11/09/2026

TODAY 🧵🪡

Don't miss the unveiling of the final installation for Lacing Communities Together with Maggie Hensel-Brown and the Columbia Gorge Museum and the opening of Fragility by Friderike Heuer. Members and invited guests, meet the artists and get an exclusive first look at the exhibition and the new art installation of lace triangles! Lacemaking demonstrations will also be going on in the lobby thanks to the Lacemakers of Puget Sound!

Our community has been working for months to create and send in lace triangles from around the world to be sewn together in a massive installation. Be the first to see the giant lace artwork and more art from Australian lace artist Maggie Hensel-Brown! Refreshments will be provided. RSVPs are encouraged.

The opening will feature a series of lace landscape photomontages by Friderike Heuer, Fragility, Hensel-Brown's 2024 community lace project, Radiance, and the final installation for Lacing Communities Together.

Friday, September 11
Public: 12:00PM to 5:00PM
Lace Demonstrations: 2:00PM to 5:00PM
Members and Invited Guests: 5:30PM to 7:30 PM

08/09/2026

Don't miss the unveiling of the final installation for Lacing Communities Together with Maggie Hensel-Brown and the Columbia Gorge Museum and the opening of Fragility by Friderike Heuer. Members and invited guests, meet the artists and get an exclusive first look at the exhibition and the new art installation of lace triangles! Lacemaking demonstrations will also be going on in the lobby thanks to the Lacemakers of Puget Sound!

Our community has been working for months to create and send in lace triangles from around the world to be sewn together in a massive installation. Be the first to see the giant lace artwork and more art from Australian lace artist Maggie Hensel-Brown! Refreshments will be provided. RSVPs are encouraged.

The opening will feature a series of lace landscape photomontages by Friderike Heuer, Fragility, Hensel-Brown's 2024 community lace project, Radiance, and the final installation for Lacing Communities Together.

Friday, September 11
Public: 12:00PM to 5:00PM
Lace Demonstrations: 2:00PM to 5:00PM
Members and Invited Guests: 5:30PM to 7:30 PM

06/09/2026

Centerpiece Reveal… 🐟

Signing off with a centerpiece reveal! 🎣

Thank you Fiber Art Now Community for following along as we stitch these lace pieces together!

This is the centerpiece that Maggie Hensel-Brown made for Lacing Communities Together. Look at those salmon!

If you want to see the final piece, come to our opening on Friday, September 11 at the Columbia Gorge Museum in Stevenson, WA! Maggie will be flying in all the way from Melbourne, AU.

Follow us at Columbia Gorge Museum where we’ll post the reveal on the same day! Want more lace? Follow maggiehenselbrown to see some phenomenal contemporary lace pieces.

Lacing Communities Together with Maggie Hensel-Brown is a community lace project. Hensel-Brown designed PNW themed lace triangles, made a series of instructional videos, and we asked lacemakers to make triangles and send them in to the Columbia Gorge Museum where they’ll be sewn together into a large-scale community art installation! We’ve received over 500 pieces from 14 countries and 18 US states.

Visit www.columbiagorgemuseum.org/lace-project to find out more and to RSVP for the opening.