Past Exhibitions

Strike a Pose

Images of Dance from the JSMA’s Collections

Morris Graves Gallery

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Strike a Pose features images from the world of dance drawn from the
JSMA’s collection of photography. Representing photographers and dancers
active in the United States in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, the images capture
a variety of styles of dance, including African, Indian, jazz, modern, and
ballet.

NewArt Northwest Kids

The Road Not Taken

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NewArt Art Northwest Kids, our annual exhibition of K–12 student art,
returns to the Education Corridor Galleries. This year’s theme, “The Road
Not Taken,” explores students’ visual depictions and definitions of their
lives, travel, or hopes for the future. Students have been encouraged to
read Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken and consider the ideas conveyed
to them through the poet’s words.

Everyday Is Not The Same

Squeak Carnwath’s Prints and Papers

Artist Project Space

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Contemporary American painter Squeak Carnwath is currently a tenured
professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In her work, she
combines personal references and icons from anthropology and art history
with purely visual elements, and creates thought-provoking combinations of
text and image. Regardless of media, everything relates back to the act of
painting.

From the Heart

The Photographs of Brian Lanker

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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This retrospective exhibition explores the range of photographic work by
one of America’s masters of the medium, Brian Lanker (August 31, 1947 –
March 13, 2011).

First Folio!

The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library

Focus Gallery

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The exhibition — part of the international events planned for 2016 in
observance of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death — will bring the
1623 original edition of the playwright’s first published collection to 53
sites: one site in all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each location will host the exhibition
for four weeks.

Art of the Athlete IV

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This year’s exhibition features the work of Casey Benson, Jordan Bell,
Dwayne Benjamin, DeForest Buckner, Megan Conder, women’s golf, Tyrell
Crosby, Tony Brooks-James, Jalen Jelks, Jordyn Fox, Janita Iamaleava, Glen
Ihenacho, Canton Kaumatule, Haniteli Lousi, Austin Maloata,Tui Talia, and
Kira Wagoner.

Olga Volchkova

The Nature of Religion

A. Dean & Lucile I. McKenzie Gallery

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Trained as an icon painter and conservator, Russian artist Olga Volchkova
uses her knowledge of Orthodox iconography and her love of botany to create
provocative paintings that explore the history of florae.

Enrique Chagoya

Adventures of Modernist Cannibals

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Painter and printmaker Enrique Chagoya describes his work as a “conceptual
fusion of opposite cultural realities” and employs what he calls “reverse
anthropology.” His provocative works incorporate diverse symbolic elements
from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, and American
popular culture.

Voces de Mis Antepasados/Voices of My Ancestors

The Papercuts of Catalina Delgado Trunk

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Drawing on the rich tradition of cut paper crafts (or papel picado) in
Mexico, Catalina Delgado Trunk creates intricate works that tell the
stories of pre-contact indigenous cultures as well as treating more
contemporary subjects. Voces de Mis Antepasados examines her pieces with
pre-Columbian themes.

Contemplation & Confrontation

The Satirical Print in Europe, 1750–1850

Focus Gallery

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The political and societal changes in Europe during the 18th and 19th
centuries motivated artists to contemplate the implications of those
transformations through their works. This exhibition features prints by
five European satirists who did just that: British artists James Gillray
and William Hogarth, Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and French artists
Honoré Daumier and Paul Gavarni.

Benevolence & Loyalty

Filial Piety in Chinese Art

Betty and John Soreng Gallery

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Co-curated with Professor Ina Asim in support of her Chinese and Asian
history courses, this selection of paintings and objects represents ideals
of benevolence and loyalty, Confucian values that exerted strong ethical
and political influence in China, Korea, and Japan for more than 2,500
years.