The Brief
- You can experience the colors and sights of one woman’s journey along the Oregon Trail at the James Museum.
- Pioneer woman Keturah Belknap documented her journey west from Iowa to Oregon in the 1800’s.
- Her sketches and journal entries were brought to full color through collaboration with artist Heide Presse.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla – The James Museum of Western Art and Wildlife Art has an exhibit of Perseverance: A Woman’s Journey West.
The entire exhibit is based on the journal of Keturah Belknap, a pioneer woman, who documented her family’s trip from Iowa along the Oregon trail with sketches and descriptions of what her family went through.
Artist Heide Presse brought to life parts of the journal to capture the feeling of everything Belknap went through, from the day-to-day ride to the actions she took each day.
The backstory:…