January 17 – May 2, 2010
 This traveling exhibition, organized by Museum executive director Jill Hartz, documents one of the Earth’s remaining natural ecosystems – the headwaters of the Amazon River in Peru. Over a series of years, beginning in 2003, noted National Geographic photographer Sam Abell traveled along the Amazon taking photographs of its wild beauty. The resulting images by Abell and his colleague, Torben Nissen, a noted wildlife photographer and experienced guide, provide rare insight into a remote and untouched landscape and the creatures that inhabit its dangerous rainforest and waters. Through their photographs and Abell’s first-hand commentary, we experience the challenges and epiphanies of their journey and come to respect the power of the Amazon and its inestimable value to life on this planet.
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The Amazonia publication is generously underwritten by the Oakwood Foundation. Amazonia is supported by the Oakwood Foundation with additional support from Canon USA, Carol Angle, Ruth Cross, Robert Strini, Linda Wachtmeister, and Sharon Ungerleider. Cosponsored at the University of Oregon by the Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation, Photography at Oregon and JSMA members.
The presentation of “Burden of Dreams” in conjunction with Amazonia is sponsored in part by The Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.
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December 22, 2009 through February 28, 2010
 Clinton Hill, a University of Oregon alumnus (B.S. 1947), was known for his creative use of materials, abstract forms and exploration of color. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris in 1951 and the Brooklyn Museum of Art School (1949-1951), and taught painting at City University, New York, for more than twenty years. Hill exhibited his work in major museums and galleries throughout the world, including The Art Institute of Chicago and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With the generous support of the Clinton Hill Allen Tran Foundation, the JSMA is pleased to present this exhibition of his work—paintings, prints, constructions, artist books and more—at his alma mater. Works in the show were selected from the retrospective organized by Melissa Morgan Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM. The exhibition is accompanied by a major catalog.
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 December 1, 2009 - March 28, 2010
Opening Reception : Saturday, December 5, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The third annual K-12 exhibition, NewArt Northwest Kids continues in 2009 with locations and a theme to complement the JSMA’s fall exhibition Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Art of the Superhero. In 2008 the JSMA received more than 350 artworks from more than 35 schools throughout the Southern Willamette Valley. To accommodate the growing response the exhibition will be displayed in the North and South Hallways on the JSMA’s first floor.
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The JSMA gratefully acknowledges the Oregon Arts Commission for their support of the 2009-2010 Season.
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