To Preserve and Promote Oral Histories through the Arts
Image by Cheryll Leo-Gwin
StoryBoards
StoryBoards Northwest is a Washington State 501(C)(3) whose mission is to “Preserve and Promote Oral Histories through the Arts.”
For over a decade we have been collecting oral histories around the globe and presenting them in a series entitled East Meets West through Art and Poetry.
The projects have been presented in art exhibitions, lectures, and videos in local galleries, museums, and online.
Summer 2025 brings two new series of podcasts.
Lost Underground: An 8-episode podcast will be released bi-weekly starting July 30, 2025. Stories from the forbidden underground salons during China’s Cultural Revolution have been buried by fear and fading memory. We present these true stories to preserve a history that also reflects the similar struggles continuing in America and around the globe.
Narratives: From a bi-weekly series of stories from or about Chinese and Chinese American women, we will expand to stories from and about women in other cultural communities; women’s stories which otherwise might be forgotten. The first of the new oral history series will be released August 6, 2025.
Podcasts
Image by Misty Poet
East Meets West Through The Arts
In 2013, StoryBoards and The Sammamish Arts Commission presented an exhibit tour, reception and panel discussion related to the City Hall Commons Gallery exhibit East Meets West Through Art, Poetry and Revolution.
This exhibition featured work by painter Cheryll Leo-Gwin, and painters and poets of the Misty Poets of China.
Back Story
We will host a FREE ONLINE TEACHER WORKSHOP in support of the oral history curriculum found in the Education section of the StoryBoards NorthWest website.
