his tour is capped at 12 guests, so please be sure to register to hold your spot!
In order to plan for our tour, please register by Friday, January 9 at 4pm; we will close the registration page after that time and we can not accommodate walk-ups on this tour.
The recommended ticket price is $20. Our ticket fees directly support the work we are doing at Bush House Museum. Please consider adding an additional donation in support.
*At the Salem Art Association, we prioritize inclusivity. To ensure that our arts and culture events remain accessible to all, we have set aside a limited number of free tickets. Please reach out to laura@salemart.org if you would like a promo code to waive the admission fee.
Saturday December 6, 2025 From 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. | BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM
HAPPENING AT THE BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM
From 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. visitors can can enjoy music and explore immersive history by traveling back in time in the Museum’s seasonally decorated and beautifully maintained home and grounds!
December 3, and through December 6, Bush House Museum will begin collecting non perishable food donations for Marion Polk Food Share. Your generosity helps support families right here in our community throughout the winter months. We’re also pleased to be partnering with theBush House Museumand Deepwood Museum & Gardens during the day-long Holiday Happening where all three sites will be collecting food donations on December 6. *Prior to Saturday, December 6, donations can be dropped off at the Bush Barn Art Center front desk.
ENJOY LIVE MUSIC THROUGHOUT THE DAY At THE BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM:
Constant Billy|1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Constant Billy is known for their Celtic and Americana music, performed with voices and acoustic instruments. For this special Holiday performance spanning the late 19th century and into the early 20th century, the duo- Emily Standish & Bill Galbraith- will do an entirely acoustic hour of holiday music from the 1870s- the period when Bush House Museum was completed and the Bush family was in residence.
Jabberwocky Quartet|2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Jabberwocky Quartet is an a cappella quartet made up of Micky Logan, Walt Haight, and Gayle and Jim Rastorfer. They incorporate elements of jazz, barbershop, doo-wop, rock’n’roll, and quirky (thus their name “Jabberwocky”).
Melissa Terrall |3:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.
Melissa Terrall is an award-winning classical pianist currently based in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. A 2023 Fulbright grant recipient, she spent a year researching Mexican piano repertoire in Mexico City.
Melissa holds degrees from the University of Kansas and Portland State University. An equally passionate performer and teacher, she has worked as interim piano professor at Linfield University and Clark College while also maintaining a private piano studio.
Location: Bush House Museum, Mission Street Southeast, Salem, OR, USA
HAPPENING AT THE BUSH BARN ART CENTER AND ANNEX
From Noon to 4:00 P.M. Shop while enjoying some holiday treats! Visitors can enjoy one stop shop for unique gifts. More than 50 artists will be selling traditional art, plus jewelry, ceramics, textiles, tree ornaments, greeting cards!
We are excited to offer our members an additional 15% savings on purchases — a 25% discount on this day only (for items over $10).
Shop while enjoying some holiday treats!
11:00 A.M. ARTIST TALK WITH JO HAMILTON
o’s exhibition “Shine On” featured in the A.N. Bush Gallery will talk about the intricate process of making her large-sale crochet installations.
But Wait! There’s More! During the standard Bush House Museum (BHM) tour, we run out of time before we run out of stories. What to do? An extended, 90 minute tour, of course. Let’s snoop in some closets, whisper some rumors and might there be a scandal? And how does that contraption work?
Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
Time: The tour will begin promptly at 1:30 pm and will conclude at 3:00 pm. Please meet your tour guide, Robin Cunningham, outside on the front porch before heading into the Museum as a group.
Location: Bush House Museum, Mission Street Southeast, Salem, OR, USA
SUNDAY, August 31, 2025 From 1:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. | BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM
The inaugural Art Lover’s Tour was a sell-out success with a waitlist. Here’s your chance to join the next one.
There’s never enough time on the standard tour to do justice to the Bush family art collection. Here’s your chance to satisfy your curiosity and fundraise for Bush House Museum.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to experience a private tour with a focus on the Bush family art collection in the historic Bush House Museum.
Back by popular demand! We will conduct the Bush House Museum Historic Architecture tour.
Are you curious about the architecture of the Bush House Museum? What’s with that door to nowhere? Why is the basement mostly above ground? What’s with those two steps up from the servants level? What style is this architecture and who was the architect?
Take a deep dive into the architecture of the Bush House. Learn about its Italianate style of architecture, rooted in Italian villa design and the Romantic movement in 19th century art. Explore finely crafted wood and metal details and exquisite marble fireplaces throughout the house.
Join us for an interesting and enlightening tour of the oddities of Bush House Museum. and enlightening tour of the oddities of Bush House Museum.
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2025
Time: The tour will begin promptly at 1:30pm and will conclude at 2:30pm. Please meet your tour guide, Kathy, outside on the east side of the House to view the exterior architecture before heading into the Museum as a group.
Location: Bush House Museum, Mission Street Southeast, Salem, OR, USA
This tour is capped at 12 guests, so please be sure to register to hold your spot!
But Wait! There’s More! During the standard Bush House Museum (BHM) tour, we run out of time before we run out of stories. What to do? An extended, 90 minute tour, of course. Let’s snoop in some closets, whisper some rumors and might there be a scandal? And how does that contraption work?
Date: Sunday, July 27th, 2025
Time: The tour will begin promptly at 1:30 pm and will conclude at 3:00 pm. Please meet your tour guide, Robin Cunningham, outside on the front porch before heading into the Museum as a group.
Location: Bush House Museum, Mission Street Southeast, Salem, OR, USA
JULY 11-October 30, 2025 | THE AMERICA WALDO BOGLE GALLERY AT THE BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM
RECEPTION AT THE BUSH BARN ART CENTER: FRIDAY, JULY 11, FROM 5:30 – 7:30 P.M.
“Pictures, like songs, should be left to make their own way in the world. All they can reasonably ask of us is that we place them on the wall, in the best light, and for the rest allow them to speak for themselves.” ~ Frederick Douglass from Pictures and Progress
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nikesha Breeze is an international artist working across a diverse range of media—including oil painting, clay and bronze sculpture, installation, performance art, and film. Grounded in a global African diasporic and Afro-Futurist perspective, her layered, immersive works draw on African diasporic research, reclamation, and memorial, forging otherworldly spaces rich with storytelling and historical education. Her practice employs multiple materials and methodologies that call upon ancestral memory and archival resurrection to revive stories long erased from the global narrative, engaging directly with themes of grief, sanctuary, power and presence, visibility, and erasure.
Breeze’s innovative approach has garnered national acclaim. In 2021, her expansive 5,000-square-foot solo exhibition “Four Sites Of Return” was featured in American Art Collector, Hyperallergic, Metalsmith Magazine, and The New York Times. Her collaborative work, “Stages of Tectonic Blackness,” earned her the National Performance Network Creative Fund and Development Fund Grant. Earlier, at the 2018 International ARTPRIZE exhibition, she received the juried 3D Grand Prize Award and the Contemporary Black Arts Award for her sculptural installation, 108 Death Masks: A Communal Prayer for Peace and Justice—a work that in 2024 was included in the permanent collection of the Equal Justice Initiative’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, honoring the six million lives lost in enslavement in the United States.
Originally from Portland, Oregon, Nikesha Breeze now lives and works in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico, on the unceded land of the Taos Pueblo People. As an African American descendant of the Mende People of Sierra Leone and Assyrian American immigrants from Iran, her multicultural heritage infuses her work with a dynamic range of perspectives. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as MoCADA Museum, The Albuquerque Museum, University Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and the NkinKyim Museum of Ghana, as well as at fine art galleries and art fairs around the globe.
Are you curious about the architecture of the Bush House Museum? What’s with that door to nowhere? Why is the basement mostly above ground? What’s with those two steps up from the servants level? What style is this architecture and who was the architect?
Take a deep dive into the architecture of the Bush House. Learn about its Italianate style of architecture, rooted in Italian villa design and the Romantic movement in 19th century art. Explore finely crafted wood and metal details and exquisite marble fireplaces throughout the house.
Join us for an interesting and enlightening tour of the oddities of Bush House Museum.
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2025
Time: The tour will begin promptly at 12:15pm and will conclude at 1:15pm. Please meet your tour guide, Kathy, outside on the east side of the House to view the exterior architecture before heading into the Museum as a group.
Location: Bush House Museum, Mission Street Southeast, Salem, OR, USA
This tour is capped at 12 guests, so please be sure to register to hold your spot!
SUNDAY APRIL 27, 2025 From 1:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. | BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM
There’s never enough time on the standard tour to do justice to the Bush family art collection. Here’s your chance to satisfy your curiosity and fundraise for Bush house museum.
Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to experience a private tour with a focus on the Bush family art collection in the historic Bush House Museum.
NOVEMBER 8, 2024 – JUNE 29, 2025 | THE AMERICA WALDO BOGLE GALLERY AT THE BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM
Favorite Things is a portrait and short film series depicting regional artists with items that are precious to them. Developed by Portland filmmaker and photographer Jason Hill, this work documents a collaboration wherein artists were instructed to share and speak about a favorite item in a studio setting. The results are an experiment with light and color to create magical portraits and filmed testimonials.
ABOUT THE Artist
Jason Hill (born 1976) is an artist and educator currently living in Portland, Oregon. Born in the Midwest to a father in the military, he moved constantly with his family until settling down in Southern California. His relationship with photographic imagery began with his love of record album covers. He started working with a camera during adolescence and is largely self-trained. His practice today is focused on portraiture with an emphasis in the mechanics of light, vibrant color, emotion, and natural beauty.
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