Designed by Architects: Metalwork from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection
September 23, 2008 – January 25, 2008
Architects have been designing useful objects for centuries, elevating the functional into art. With works selected from Margo Grant Walsh’s acclaimed collection, Designed by Architects showcases metalwork from around the world that was designed by prominent architects between the late-19th and 21st centuries. The exhibition explores the intellectual and stylistic links between the design of buildings and the design of practical objects, touching on the significant stylistic movements in history.
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from The Farber Collection
October 4, 2008 through January 4, 2009
FREE Preview Reception: Friday, October 3, 2008
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from The Farber Collection, making its West coast premiere at the JSMA, dramatizes the extraordinary production and innovation of Cuban artists over the past century. It represents a variety of styles and media including painting and photography. The exhibit captures a wide range of experiences and points of view, reflecting the rich and complex experiences and expressions of artists who share a common love for Cuba. Image courtesy of The Farber Collection Miami, Courtesy of Cuba Avant-Garde Inc. © Armando Marino. Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from The Farber Collection is originated by the Samuel P. Harn Museum at the University of Florida and is toured by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE), Pasadena, California. Cosponsored at the University of Oregon by the Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation. Major funding provided by Connie and Jeff Huling.
Lasting Legacies: The First 75 Years
January 24 through April 12, 2009
FREE Preview Reception: Friday, January 23, 2009
Lasting Legacies: The First 75 Years draws heavily from the extensive collection of the JSMA highlighting many of the outstanding pieces and will include recent and new acquisitions. Over the course of 75 years the collection has grown significantly. This important anniversary exhibition focuses on the individuals who helped form the core of the collection in the past and celebrates the new generation of supporters who are shaping its future.
MFA 2009 Exhibition
May 2 through June 14, 2009
FREE Preview Reception: Friday, May 1, 2009
The annual Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate exhibition is the culminating event, constituting the equivalent of a master’s thesis, for art students who have completed the graduate program and are candidates of the Master of Fine Arts degree. The exhibition is jointly presented by the Department of Art, UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World
Summer 2009
Carved by Korean folk artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these tiny, brightly painted sculptures of clowns, tigers and acrobats—known as kkoktu—have been used in Korea for centuries to decorate coffins. Costumed and posed to reflect the realities of rural Korean village life of the past, individual kkoktus are a window on a period that has left few written records. They’re also a window onto a timeless, characteristically Korean attitude towards death. Though the kkoktus’ gaiety seems incongruous with mourning, they express their culture’s deep desire that the dead enter the next world surrounded by joy-and its appreciation of the fleeting nature of all experience. Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World is organized by the Korea Society in collaboration with the Ockrang Cultural Foundation.