Video Interviews with JSMA Staff and Guest Artists
Featured on the Oregon Humanities Center’s UOToday, hosted by Professor Paul Peppis
UO Today about Common Seeing
Original Air Date: Dec 20, 2019
UO Today with Cheryl Hartup, Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American and Caribbean Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and Danielle Knapp, the McCosh Curator at the Jordan Schnitzer of Art, discuss the museum's Common Seeing collaboration with the UO's Common Reading program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyGcvtoIzxE
UO Today with John Weber
Original Air Date: Nov 27, 2019
John Weber, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, discusses his Oregon roots and his aspirations for the museum. Weber took over as Executive Director on October 1, 2019 after Jill Hartz retired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-po94Yft_28
UO Today with Philip Haas
Original Air Date: June 10, 2019
Artist and filmmaker Philip Haas discusses his performance installation "Sculpture Breathes Life into Painting and Music" which had a world premiere exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art May 29 through June 9, 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fk-KUiLeWM
UO Today with Philip Scher
Original Air Date: Apr 4, 2019
Philip Scher, professor of Anthropology and Folklore and Public Culture, organized the exhibition "Visual Clave: The Expression of the Latino/a Experience through Album Cover Art, 1940-1990" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWu7HVqu1Nk
UO Today with Jill Hartz
Original Air Date: May 30, 2019
Jill Hartz, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art since 2008 will retire in 2019. She discusses how the museum established an academic mission during her tenure as well as enhanced its many public programs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDjovOJChyQ
UO Today with Thi Bui
Original Air Date: February 6, 2019
Thi Bui, artist and author of the illustrated memoir The Best We Could Do, a chronicle of her family's journey from war-torn Vietnam to America. The Best We Could Do is the University of Oregon's Common Reading book for 2018-19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTV3_DLevUs
UO Today with Matthew Picton
Original Air Date: December 6, 2018
Artist Matthew Picton discusses his cartographic sculptures in the Artist Project Space at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The "Cultural Mapping" exhibition is on view through January 20, 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nilc5a6QNV0
UO Today with Dianna Cohen
Original Air Date: October 23, 2018
Artist and activist, Dianna Cohen is one of 30 artists featured in the exhibit "Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials" on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through December 30, 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuqInu2lAJM
October 19, 2018 lecture
Dianna Cohen: "Plastic Pollution: Art to Action"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRI1dGKziUM
UO Today with Keith Achepohl and Jill Hartz
Original Air Date: February 22, 2018
Eugene artist Keith Achepohl and Jill Hartz, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, discuss "Vision of Nature | Vessel of Beauty," an exhibition of work by Achepohl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUaz4HuXBzI
UO Today with Margaret Coe and Danielle Knapp
Original Air Date: February 9, 2018
Artist Margaret Coe and McCosh Associate Curator Danielle Knapp discuss "Mark Clarke and Margaret Coe: Our Lives in Paint," a retrospective exhibition in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW4yKuf7O-0&t=325s
UO Today with James Harper
Original Air Date: November 6, 2017
James Harper, associate professor in the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture, discusses "The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome" exhibition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJeuntLPZw
UO Today with Barbara MacCallum
Original Air Date: October 2, 2017
Irish-born artist Barbara MacCallum discusses her exhibit of mixed-media sculptural work at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyGieDOKDLM
UO Today with Sandow Birk
Original Air Date: January 26, 2017
Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk discusses his exhibition of "American Qur'an", in which he has transcribed and illustrated every verse of the Qur'an.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvCJFcyUVcw
UO Today with Ben Saunders
Original Air Date: June 14, 2016
Ben Saunders, professor of English and Comics and Cartoon Studies, discusses the exhibition he curated "Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen: The Art of EC Comics" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RklGjXSomiw
UO Today with Lynda Lanker and Jill Hartz
Original Air Date: April 12, 2016
Lynda Lanker, widow of photographer Brian Lanker; and Jill Hartz, Executive Director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, discuss the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Z7_GGTBiY
UO Today with Squeak Carnwath
Original Air Date: February 19, 2016
Artist Squeak Carnwath discusses her approach to painting and her creative process. The exhibit "Everyday is Not the Same: Squeak Carnwath's Prints and Papers" is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through April 10, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2RbJUNgJ58
UO Today with Olga Volchkova
Original Air Date: February 12, 2016
Russian-born artist, Olga Volchkova, talks about her knowledge of Russian Orthodox iconography and the exhibit of her series of icon paintings, "The Garden of Saints," at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UJSkM5UW2E
UO Today: Expanding Frontiers: The Jack and Susy Wadsworth Collection of Postwar Japanese Prints
Original Air Date: October 23, 2015
Akiko Walley, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art, and Anne Rose Kitagawa, Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Walley and Kitagawa discuss the exhibition they co-curated "Expanding Frontiers: The Jack and Susy Wadsworth Collection of Postwar Japanese Prints."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DNZ5PjNbhY
UO Today with Rick Bartow and Jill Hartz
Original Air Date: May 1, 2015
Artist Rick Bartow and Jill Hartz, executive director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. They discuss the retrospective exhibition of Bartow's art covering over 40 years of his work. "Things You Know But Cannot Explain" is on view at the museum until August 9, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZO1QZDlMNU
UO Today: Laura Heit
Original Air Date: February 27, 2015
Laura Heit, experimental filmmaker and performance artist. Her animated installation and film, "Two Ways Down," is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through March 29, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye5a_CHzRtg
UO Today: Geraldine Ondrizek
Original Air Date: October 21, 2014
Geraldine Ondrizek, professor of Art, Reed College, discusses her installation "Shades of White" in the Artist Project Space at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osQQEjswG_c
