November 3 - December 12, 2025

NAAE 17

Windows: A Retrospective of Philip H. Red Eagle

Image: Philip H. Red Eagle | South China Sea | Photograph

November 3 - December 12, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, November 7, 6 - 7:30 p.m.

The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery and SPSCC are honored to present “Windows: A Retrospective of Philip H. Red Eagle”, a landmark exhibition celebrating the life, legacy, and creative force of one of the Salish communities most impactful indigenous voices. Philip H. Red Eagle is a Vietnam Veteran, visual artist, author, activist, and canoe carver whose work and dedication to service in the military, indigenous community, and the arts span over 50 years. This comprehensive retrospective brings together writings, photographs, carvings, and archival materials that reflect Red Eagle’s unwavering commitment to cultural preservation, indigenous sovereignty, and artistic exploration.

Red Eagle is of Dakota and Puget Sound Salish heritage and the first recipient of Washington State Arts Commission’s Tribal Arts and Heritage Award. He is the originator and co-founder of The Raven Chronicles and has been an active participant in Canoe Nations and Tribal Canoe Journeys since inception. Red Eagles’ poetry, fiction, essays and reviews appear in Art Access, Encyclopedia of North American Indians, Humanities Today, Nobody’s Orphan Child (Anthology), Northwest Ethnic News, The Raven Chronicles, Red Ink, and Seattle Arts Commission Newsletter – Diverse Views Guest Editor Series-1990. His photos have appeared in American Indian Art Magazine, Air Cal Magazine, Northwest Ethnic News, The Raven Chronicles, The Seattle Post Intelligencer, The Seattle Times, and the Tacoma News Tribune, as well as several gallery exhibits across the country.

Philip H. Red Eagle

Guest Curator, Philip H. Red Eagle is a born and raised Northwest writer, artist, metal smith and carver. He is the author of Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior's Journey: styled in mythical realism and now in 2nd Edition (saltpublishing.com). He is also the originator and a cofounder of The Raven Chronicles: A Journal of Art, Literature & The Spoken Word (1991-Present), currently based in Seattle. The Raven Chronicles is now 27 years old. Philip is an "occasional poet" who, these days, spends most of his time working with Tribal Journeys, a cultural movement using the canoe as a vessel for cultural renewal.

"I began shooting with a small 35 mm Canon while In-Country Vietnam back in 1971. I had purchased a Canon QL rangefinder at the Cholon Exchange in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). Later, when back in the fleet in '72 and '73, I purchased a Canon F-1, a 35 mm SLR camera, while in Japan. Once back in the states and stationed in San Diego I began taking photography classes at night at San Diego City College. I came to the University of Washington in 1976 and continued my education and continued to improve my camera expertise moving to professional levels in the '80s in photo-journalism and shooting headshots and doing model portfolios and ad photography. I moved to gallery level photography in the early '90s. Currently, I have started digitizing my old slides and black & white film and I am now shooting with a Sony digital camera."