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Posted by: Rebecca Durkin

The last of the images are hung and labels are in place. Join us on Sat., June 16, 10 am – 5 pm for the opening day of Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam.

Opening Day Schedule

10:15 am ~ Photographer Tour with Florian Schulz
11am ~ “The Origin and Status of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative”
12 pm ~ “The Columbia Highlands - Making the Rockies to Rainforest Connection”
12:30 pm ~ Photographer Tour with Florian Schulz
1:30 pm ~ “Wildlife Bridges Across Interstate 90”
2pm ~ “From the Cascades to Karakoram – a global exploration of bears”
2:30 pm ~ Photographer Tour with Florian Schulz
3 pm ~ “Bringing Critical Wildlife Conservation Issues to the Public”

I’m most looking forward to the tours with featured photographer, Florian Schulz (pictured left). I’ve been working with his images for months now in preparation for the show, but when I finally met him and heard him talk about trailing grizzlies through the mountains for 10 years, it struck me how deep the stories these pictures tell really are. Florian hangs off of precipices, dives underwater, tracks animals that could kill him in an instant, and sits still for hours and hours at a time just to capture that one glorious instant we see in an image on the gallery wall. It seems like there is so much wisdom living in those mountains, and it lives in him now too.

- Rebecca

Burke Photo Blogging, Take 1:

Posted by: Karyn Gregory

Look! Here are a few images of the installation process for our new exhibit, Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam. The hallways here at the museum are buzzing in anticipation of opening day for our new show (June 16).

- Karyn

The exhibits, they are a-changin’

Posted by: Rebecca Durkin

The Burke's powerful show of contemporary indigenous photography, Our People, Our Land, Our Images, closed yesterday.

But the exhibit space won’t stay empty for long. Up next is a gorgeous wildlife photography show, Yellowstone to Yukon: Freedom to Roam, opening June 16. Photographer Florian Schulz spent 10 years following the trail of the grizzly through the Rocky Mountains. His images of the wildlife, the landscape, and the people of the region drive home a message of conservation for one of the world’s major mountain ecosystems.

Burke Blog will get you behind-the-scenes as we install Y2Y and prepare for opening day activities. Some of the 40 photos from the show are framed and hanging out in the exhibit workshop until they are ready to be installed. The exhibits crew is also working on panels and labels right now. More images coming soon!

- Rebecca