January 21 – April 8, 2012     

The first JSMA Art Department faculty exhibition in six years features the work of many artists who have joined the faculty recently as well as significant developments in the work of long-standing artists. Stamatina Gregory, an independent curator from New York City, organized the exhibition, which encompasses diverse contemporary practices and ideas, ranging from drawing to emerging technology, from abstraction to relational aesthetics. A catalogue with critical essays, Sharon Lockhart’s new film, and roundtable discussions that explore creative inquiry accompany the show. A smaller exhibition focusing on one set of ideas emerging from the large show will run concurrently at the White Box in Portland, January 24 – March 24.

The Long Now is made possible with support from the Donald and Coeta Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment Fund, the William C. Mitchell Estate, JSMA members, the Ann Swindells Chair in Architecture and Allied Arts, and the School of Architecture and Allied Arts.

February 7 - May 13, 2012
Reception: Saturday, April 28, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
On view in the first floor hallways
In this year's K-12 student exhibition, students from around the state respond to the idea of JSMA founder, Gertrude Bass Warner, that knowledge of other cultures and other people promotes global understanding.

April 21 – June 18, 2012

Free Opening Reception, Friday April 20, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Curated by Dr. Kendall H. Brown, professor of Asian art history at California State University, Long Beach, and organized by the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, the exhibition focuses on the nexus of American art, the woodblock print movement, women and East Asia between 1900 and 1940 through the presentation of work by Helen Hyde (1868-1919), Bertha Lum (1869-1954), Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956), and Lilian Miller (1895-1942).  All of these artists trained initially as painters, then designed woodblock prints while living in Japan.  The show investigates the various ways that “the orient” served as a liberating professional space and as a place of deeply diverse creative inspiration for these artists.  Approximately 1/3 of the exhibition is drawn from the JSMA collection.

July 1 – September 9, 2012

Free Opening Reception, Saturday, June 30, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

For the past fifteen years Lynda Lanker, a Eugene, Oregon, based artist, has been traveling throughout the western United States sketching, painting, interviewing and photographing iconic women.  As the American West, once dominated by ranches and agriculture, is tamed and transformed through settlement and corporate development, Lanker has persisted in her commitment to preserve the spirit and stories of ranch women and cowgirls. This exhibition and accompanying publication will present the portraits and stories of more than fifty women, from thirteen western states, who gain their sustenance and livelihood from the land.  Much like the Farm Security Administration’s photographs of the great Depression will forever capture that era, Lanker’s images document a vanishing way of life that affirmed the role of women in the economy and ecology of the West.  Influenced by Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Hart Benton, Lanker uses a variety of media – pencil and charcoal, oil pastel, egg tempera, plate and stone lithography, engraving and drypoint – to capture the spirit of her women.