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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.
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.
 January 17 – April 17, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, January 16, 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.
The Amazonia publication is generously underwritten by the Oakwood Foundation. This exhibition is generously supported by the Oakwood Foundation, Canon USA, Carol Angle, Ruth Cross, Robert Strini, and Linda Wachtmeister. Cosponsored at the University of Oregon by the Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation, Photography at Oregon, and JSMA members.
March 9 through April 18, 2010
The book, however one wishes to define it, has proved to be an enduring and inspiring art form. From medieval manuscripts to ancient Buddhist albums, from Persian miniatures to modern print portfolios, the art of the book expresses the values and subjects most dear to cultures, religions, and individual artists. Even today, the artist book is as unique as its creator. $0 $0 $0 $0 This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Oregon Humanities Center yearlong project “Year of the Book.” Complementing works drawn from the museum’s permanent collection are special loans from artist, scholar, and critic Johanna Drucker, Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.
This exhibition and related programs are cosponsored by the University of Oregon Department of Romance Languages, Oregon Humanities Center, and the Comparative Literature Program.
 April 10 through June 27, 2010
It’s hard to avoid thinking about the Global Village, Marshall McLuhan’s technology-fed universe, when confronted by Nam June Paik’s pioneering artworks. The selection of works for this exhibition feature a range of Paik’s use of discarded televisions, radios, and a sundry of electronic gadgetry fashioned into bodily forms.
The exhibition is organized by the University of California Irvine’s Beall Center for Art + Technology and made possible at the University of Oregon with the support of the Farwest Steel Endowment Fund and the Oregon Korea Foundation.
May 16 through September 5, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 15, 2010
Behind a Polaroid camera Andy Warhol and Gus Van Sant probed innumerable acquaintances and strangers in the process of crafting their art—Warhol’s paintings and screenprints of people and objects and Van Sant’s characters in film. Warhol’s portraits were transformed into iconic Pop images. Van Sant’s Polaroids helped him cast characters for his films. In reflection these one-step photographs became indelible images.
The exhibition is organized by the JSMA. Cosponsored by the Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation, Photography at Oregon, and JSMA members.
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