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
MAY 1 – JUNE 26, 2026 | THE AMERICA WALDO BOGLE GALLERY AT THE BUSH HOUSE MUSEUM
Let the Sun Shine Through unfolds at the threshold between interior and exterior, history and presence. Installed within the historic rooms of the Bush House Museum, this work considers how the female figure, landscape, and memory move across and through one another.
The mural painted directly on the wall introduces a silhouetted, copper-colored, feminine form that gathers the oak just beyond the gallery window and draws it inward. The gesture collapses distance: outside becomes inside, past becomes present, and the natural world enters a space shaped by layered histories. The oaks, rooted and enduring, act as witnesses—holding time in ways the built environment cannot.
My work begins where history fractures—where Black stories have been silenced, fragmented, or erased. Through painting and curation as social practice, I assemble those fragments into spaces for reflection, resistance, and radical beauty. Across the mural and accompanying figure paintings, silhouetted forms emerge in ethereal negative space, carrying both memory and possibility.
These figures, informed by gesture and organic form, move between the human and the elemental. They ask how bodies hold ancestry, how land remembers, and how presence can be reclaimed within spaces not originally built to contain it. Afrofuturist undercurrents shape this work, opening speculative pathways for Black futurity, growth, and transformation.
Within this installation, light becomes an active force—filtering through windows, across surfaces, and into the figures themselves. To let the sun shine through is to allow for permeability: between histories, bodies, and worlds. It is an offering toward healing, and an insistence on becoming.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tammy Jo Wilson is a Black artist, curator, speaker, and facilitator dedicated to creating inclusive spaces where art serves as a catalyst for connection, dialogue, and change. Based in Portland, Oregon, she weaves together her passion for advocacy, creativity, and community-building to uplift underrepresented voices—particularly Black artists—through exhibitions, programming, and mentorship. She holds an MFA from San Jose State University and a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She co-founded Art in Oregon, a statewide nonprofit fostering artistic equity and cultural vitality. Wilson serves as the Visual Arts & Technology Program Manager at Lewis & Clark College. She is actively curating numerous exhibitions, including Black Matter, an ongoing exhibition featuring Oregon-based Black artists, and Terrain, a land art exhibit and residency celebrating the intersection of art and nature.
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.
Doors open at 6:00pm, show will begin promptly at 6:30pm.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of live music with the Vista Piano Quartet at the Bush House Museum! Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to experience the magic of chamber music in the historic setting of the Bush House Museum.
Location: Bush House Museum, Mission Street Southeast, Salem, OR, USA
Chamber Music can simply, and most aptly, described as “the music of friends”.
In between the sacred music of the Medieval Era to the contemporary concert halls seating hundreds of listeners, was the nineteenth century idea of the Salon; amateur and professional musicians alike gathering in the home to share an evening of music and camaraderie. It is not out of the realm of imagination to envision an evening of chamber music at the turn of the 20th century in the historic Bush House.
The Vista Piano Quartet is thrilled to take you on a journey back to that time, with a twist. Our program consists of nineteenth and early twentieth century works which would have been the new music of the time. While Schumann or Brahms may immediately come to mind, we have chosen a different path for this recital.
The number of compositions by women of that, or any era, goes largely unrecognized and undoubtedly underperformed. It is our aim to shed a ray of light on four highly skilled and respected composers/musicians of that time whose names and accomplishments have been nearly lost to history. We’ll present selections from Elfrida Andree,Mel Bonis, Dora Pejacsevich, and Luise Aldolpha Le Beau in hopes their names will someday become standards of the musical canon.
We look forward to sharing an evening of music, a little history and friendship with you.
Vista Piano Quartet Members:
Violin – Cathy Heithaus Viola – Karen Vincent Cello – Jenny Gleason Piano – Brenda Winberg
Doors open at 6:00pm, show will begin promptly at 6:30pm.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of live music with Machado Mijiga at the Bush House Museum! Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to experience the magic of Machado Mijiga’s jazz drumming in the historic setting of the Bush House Museum.
Location: Bush House Museum, Mission Street Southeast, Salem, OR, USA
Multi-instrumentalist and Portland native Machado Mijiga wears many hats, both literally and metaphorically. Classically trained, jazz-weathered, and eclectically inclined, Mijiga left the proverbial creative “box” at a very early age, with access to many instruments and a diverse musical background brought about by an intercultural heritage. Mijiga is a musical polymath; composer, producer, bandleader, educator, gear fanatic, and audio engineer, to name a few. Authenticity and uniquity assume the locus of Mijiga’s artistic identity. Self-expression is the prime directive and the medium of choice changes like the weather.
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